The Mitchell Institute’s prevention & risk team focuses on improving our health system so more Australians can engage with and benefit from the service, supporting a healthier, fairer and more productive society.

We lead the Australian Health Policy Collaboration which brings together more than 60 leading health organisations and chronic disease experts to translate rigorous research into good policy. The national collaboration has developed health targets and indicators for preventable chronic diseases designed to contribute to reducing the health impacts of chronic conditions on the Australian population. 

Key contacts

Rosemary Calder
Professor of Health Policy, Institute of Health & Sport
Maximilian de Courten
Vice-Chancellor's Distinguished Research Fellow (VCDRF)
Paper

Increasing research evidence translation & utilisation to improve population health outcomes

22 November 2022

To achieve national objectives for improved population health, more widespread adoption of evidence-informed public health has been recommended.

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Scaling, integrating & better supporting people with mental disorders to engage in employment &/or education

22 November 2022

Australians with severe and persistent mental disorders experience some of the highest rates of unemployment. Yet people who live with these mental disorders want to work.

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Improving tobacco cessation rates in priority populations

22 November 2022

The implementation of consistent and comprehensive approaches to tobacco control by Australian governments since the 1970s resulted in major reductions in population smoking rates.

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Media release

New plan to increase life span for people living with serious mental illness

3 October 2022

Evidence and policy recommendations to improve the physical health care and life span of people living with serious mental illness is featured in a new Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) special supplement.

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News

National Consumer Engagement Strategy for Preventive Health project

21 March 2022

Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute and the Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF) are leading National Consumer Engagement Strategy for Preventive Health project

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Submission

Budget submission: Funding will cut 23-year life expectancy gap

15 February 2022

Leading mental and physical health experts call for Government to allocate $13.7m to deliver new pilot health initiatives to help cut the up to 23-year life expectancy gap for people with a severe mental illness.

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Health experts call for a ban on Uber drink deliveries

23 December 2021

Sixty of Australia’s leading health policy experts are calling for Australia to ban home deliveries of alcohol after 10pm.

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Opinion

Childcare will be the next COVID frontline

28 October 2021

The Conversation: Children up to four years old will make up about 40% of Australia’s unvaccinated population. This will make Australia’s early learning sector the next frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Opinion

Missing out on PE during lockdowns means students will be playing catch-up

27 October 2021

The Conversation: International evidence suggests children have poorer movement skills as a result of COVID-related lockdowns that reduced physical activity at school, socially and in the community.

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