22 Oct 2020
As many as 1.7 million Australians have chronic kidney disease (CKD) and each year around 3,000 progress to end-stage kidney disease requiring dialysis or kidney transplantation. More than 13,000 Australians are currently receiving dialysis and over 12,000 Australians are living with a kidney transplant. Read more here.
22 Oct 2020
Australia
22 Oct 2020
With so many Australians consuming food served at publicly-funded institutions - like schools, workplaces and hospitals - on a daily basis, these facilities are well placed to influence healthy eating through good nutrition policy.
22 Oct 2020
Australia
22 Oct 2020
The George Institute for Global Health welcomes the decision by Ministers of the Australia and New Zealand Food Regulation Ministers Forum to improve alcohol labelling but fears the lost opportunity to optimize the health benefits of the Health Star Rating system.
22 Oct 2020
22 Oct 2020
The George Institute for Global Health welcomes the new national agreement on Closing the Gap. The landmark reforms are a culmination of generations of advocates, community members and experts joining together to drive shared decision making with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities.
22 Oct 2020
20 Oct 2020
On 24 September 2020, the Friends of the Task Force met in the margins of the high-level segment of the 75thsession of the United Nations General Assembly. Participants included Member States, UN agencies and non-State actors. The meeting was co-hosted by the Government of the Russian Federation and the World Health Organization, and co-sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme, the In...
20 Oct 2020
18 Oct 2020
The George Institute for Global Health Imperial has established a new partnership with the George Institute for Global Health, focusing on the development and evaluation of innovative and sustainable global health systems.
18 Oct 2020
18 Oct 2020
The George Institute for Global Health Digital health apps have the potential to improve health behaviours and outcomes, in an easy and sustainable way. The CONNECT trial aimed to examine the effectiveness of a consumer web-based app linked to primary care electronic health records (EHRs), to find out whether the app would positively impact patients with, or at risk of, cardiovascular disease....
18 Oct 2020
18 Oct 2020
The George Institute for Global Health New research by The George Institute for Health has investigated sex‐disparities in the abandonment of childhood cancer treatment in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) and identified the characteristics of children and their families most disadvantaged by such abandonment.
18 Oct 2020
18 Oct 2020
The George Institute for Global Health People living with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease and diabetes are more vulnerable to becoming severely ill or dying from COVID-19, and yet of all the interventional clinical trials registered globally that relate to COVID-19, less than 4% focus on this high-risk group, an analysis by The George Institute has shown. Read more her...
18 Oct 2020
02 Oct 2020
The video brings together some of George Institute's experts and partners around the world to consider the importance and impact of COVID-19 on NCD prevention and management in different contexts, and the key research questions emerging as a consequence.
02 Oct 2020
Publication
29 Sep 2020
The George Institute undertook a systematic analysis of global COVID-19 related registered clinical trials by mapping how they relate to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Our analysis outlines the current challenges, and provides recommendations about...
05 Mar 2019
A seminar titled ‘Why Focus on Women and NCDs?’ marked the launch of the Community on Women and NCDs. This is a new Community facilitated by The George Institute for Global Health and will be hosted on the Knowledge Action Portal. The Community will promote gender equity and address the burden of disease facing women and girls through a life-course approach, which reco...
05 Mar 2019
