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Quit smoking for your brain health. Image: Make Smoking History
Thursday, 04 Jun 2026
  • Explainer

Cancer Council WA has launched a new campaign with a focus on brain health, following alarming research revealing people who smoke had a 64 per cent higher risk of dying from dementia compared to people who had never smoked.

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Contemporary tobacco and nicotine products, particularly e-cigarettes, are deliberately designed, marketed, and distributed to maximize youth appeal, uptake, dependence, and use.
Sunday, 31 May 2026
  • Analysis and opinion

Youth uptake is a predictable outcome of systems designed to maximise product availability, appeal, and addictiveness.

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Indonesia Australia Collaborative Workshop on Sea Grape Nanoliposome Innovation for Diabetes
Thursday, 28 May 2026
  • News

An Indonesia-Australia collaborative workshop on sea grape nanoliposome innovation for diabetes was held at NCEPH.

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Jennifer Welsh
Friday, 22 May 2026
  • News

A project led by Dr Jenny Welsh has secured major funding of $833,354 from the Australian Research Council.

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A prominent No Smoking Sign amidst the lush greenery
Monday, 18 May 2026
  • News

A coalition of health organisations and individual health experts has come together to Unmask Big Tobacco ahead of World No Tobacco Day.

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Nineteen Pacific health professionals have begun advanced epidemiology training
Thursday, 07 May 2026
  • News

Nineteen Pacific health professionals have begun advanced epidemiology training—supported in part by the Australian National University’s Pac-EVIPP+ program—to strengthen local capacity for evidence-based public health practice across the region.

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Suicide disclosure
Wednesday, 29 Apr 2026
  • Research story

Suicide is the leading cause of death for Australians aged 15 to 44, yet many people experiencing suicidal thoughts don’t disclose how they're feeling. ANU researchers want to understand why.

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Professor Gabriele Bammer is developing the new discipline of Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S).. Photo: Jack Fox/ANU
Wednesday, 15 Apr 2026
  • Academic profile
  • Research story

Professor Gabriele Bammer has spent a career supporting academics to deal with complex problems involving human behaviour and social processes.

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NCEPH
Friday, 27 Mar 2026
  • Impact story

A snapshot of NCEPH’s direction, strengths and impact in 2025

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