Four things to think about before starting a PhD
Image credit: Green chameleon on Unsplash Everyone’s thoughts are turning towards 2022, and hopefully, how much better it’ll be than the cluster truck that was 2021. For you, thinking about 2022 could...
View ArticleFreedom to protest, public health, and Covid-19
Update: the podcast of the event described below is now available, click here. Recently, a number of protests have taken place on the grounds of The University of Sydney against Commonwealth...
View ArticleCOVID-19, medical research governance, and public health orders
Image: Mika Baumeister Posted by Belinda Reeve on behalf of Cate Stewart The impact of coronavirus-related biomedical research and public heath laws have been considered in recent articles co-authored...
View ArticleImproving safety for patients undergoing cosmetic surgery in NSW
If you’ve ever had work done, or thought about it, the decision of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal in Health Care Complains Commission v Blackstock should send a shiver down your spine. This...
View ArticleReckless, incompetent, outrageous: rogue doctors performing cosmetic surgery...
A previous post briefly reviewed the regulation of cosmetic surgery in New South Wales. This post reviews the decision of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal in Health Care Complaints...
View ArticleCOVID-19, patients’ mental capacity and prisoners
@mbaumi via Unsplash The coronavirus pandemic has raised an abundance of issues at the intersection of law and medicine. In recent co-authored articles, Cameron Stewart, Professor of Health, Law and...
View ArticleThe tricky business of Covid-19 reviews & origins investigations
Dr Dominic Dwyer, Australia’s member of the WHO-convened Global Study of the Origins of SARS-CoV-2, won’t remember me, but he was generous and helpful when I interviewed him as a PhD student in the...
View ArticleBig Alcohol and COVID-19: industry rules fail. Again.
By Hannah Pierce, Kathryn Backholer, Sarah Jackson and Florentine Martino Reposted from MJA Insights: https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2021/11/big-alcohol-and-covid-19-failing-self-regulation-again/...
View ArticleA triumph for religious freedom, or viral spreading? The US Supreme Court in...
During his Presidency, President Trump had the opportunity to appoint three new Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2017, the acerbic conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch replaced Justice Antonin...
View ArticleThe Covidsafe app: speed at the expense of transparency and accountability
Photo: Markus Winkler via Unsplash Australia’s COVIDSafe app was launched by the Australian Government in April 2020. The app uses Bluetooth technology to record “contact events” or “digital...
View ArticleReligious discrimination in Australian health law: hype or reality?
Queensland has passed the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2021. I’m disappointed in Queensland’s Parliament, not for passing assisted dying legislation, but for consciously trampling over the religious...
View ArticleThe courts’ role in treatment for childhood gender dysphoria: recent updates
Photo by Aedrian on Unsplash In 2020 and 2021, there were significant developments in the courts’ role in treatment for childhood gender dysphoria. The UK case of Bell v Tavistock is well known, but...
View ArticleVaccine mandates webinar
On 9 December, the Parsons Centre for Law & Business, together with Corrs Chambers Westgarth, convened a seminar entitled Vaccine mandates and public health orders: legal and ethical issues for...
View ArticleProspects for the World Health Assembly’s pandemic instrument
The World Health Assembly (WHA) has established an intergovernmental negotiating body to “draft and negotiate a WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic prevention,...
View ArticleClosing the Gap and health governance reform: a brief review
7566_National_Reconciliation_Week, Cadigal Green, Darlington Campus. NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has confirmed that the Aboriginal flag will fly permanently atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge “as soon...
View ArticleA short(ish) explainer on public health law
Image by Pam Menegakis via Unsplash Stay-at-home orders, curfews, and mandatory quarantine have brought public health law to the public’s attention during the Covid-19 pandemic. While public health...
View ArticleAnother step forward for the Pacific Legislative Framework
Pacific Island Countries and Territories have some of the world’s highest rates of obesity, diabetes, smoking and other risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCDs). In response, Public Health...
View ArticleAlcohol companies continue to play by their own rules, putting our children’s...
Reposted from the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE). FARE is the leading not-for-profit organisation working towards an Australia free from alcohol harms. They approach this through...
View ArticleIndigenous Peoples’ Inclusion in Food Governance
For NAIDOC Week, Dr Mark Lock speaks to Dr Belinda Reeve about championing health equity for First Nations Australians and their meaningful inclusion in all dimensions of food governance. Reposted...
View ArticleDeveloped countries, dwindling national flexibilities, and access to...
Dr Olugbenga Olatunji, Lecturer, The University of Sydney Photo by Diana Polekhina on Unsplash In a recently published paper, I historicise the gradual but potent attacks of the developed countries on...
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