VicHealth

VicHealth’s new CEO has started this week. Dr Sandro Demaio formerly was a WHO medical officer, who trained and worked at Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital. He has previously led the EAT Foundation in Oslo, co-hosted the ABC program Ask the Doctor, and has even published a cookbook.

Young Australians, particularly young men, don’t fully understand sexual consent. We need to continue to push for gender equality to change the harmful attitudes and behaviours that are hurting our young people and help put a stop to gendered violence.

There’s a big difference between measuring what’s been done and what’s been achieved. Knowing how and when to use an outcomes-based approach cuts to the chase.

Most Victorians think getting smashed at the office Christmas party isn’t cool, according to VicHealth. The agency’s 2017 survey of 2000+ Victorians finds that 66% think it’s

Learning about how unconscious bias can affect recruitment and promotion decisions was “both confronting and rewarding” for Greg Johannes, the head of the Tasmanian State Service. In an extremely rare occurence, all secretaries and deputy secretaries took the same course.

Victoria’s citizens’ jury on obesity was the biggest such initiative so far in Australia. Ensuring the process was unbiased and uncensored was critical to making it credible. But beware over-reliance on technology.