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  • Current and future generations must flourish: Time for a long-term and global perspective on pandemic and other catastrophic risks

    … Overview of our just published research paper calling for a well-resourced NZ Parliamentary Commissioner for … Commissioner could also help overcome siloed orthodoxy and cognitive biases, through support for the public sector chief … risk assessment. Volcanism was only added to the register after the 2010 eruption of the Icelandic volcano …
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  • The long-term health burden of COVID-19: further justification for NZ’s elimination strategy

    … transmission of the pandemic virus, SARS-CoV-2, to zero by a series of public-health interventions and rapid responses … 3 . There are many aspects to this persistence of symptoms after a diagnosis of what was initially assumed to be just an … infectious capable of airborne spread an illness that is often not so devastating that it allows many infectious …
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  • Australia’s Quarantine Systems Failures: Lessons for NZ

    … programmes, starting with border workers, has been a favourable development in recent months. NZ and Australia … a moderate degree of protection is likely. For example, infection rates were halved for the AstraZeneca vaccine, 4 5 … border quarantine from 14 to 21 days. 12 Testing of people after leaving quarantine on day 16 is now common in Australia …
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  • Preparing for Omicron: A proactive Government response is urgently needed to minimise harms

    … Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) could improve preparations for a likely national outbreak of the Omicron variant of … Delta, but overall it should still not be considered a mild infection . This Omicron variant is also far more …
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  • Tax reform pros & cons: A brief look from a Public Health perspective

    … Dr Caroline Shaw, Dr Nhung Nghiem, Prof Tony Blakely, A/Prof Ralph Chapman Tax policies have major impacts on … the issues in our table we lack detailed data, so there is often substantive uncertainty about the feasibility of the … M, Molina M, Ng S, Rivera-Dommarco JA: Changes in Prices After an Excise Tax to Sweetened Sugar Beverages Was …
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  • Lessons learned from a remote blood pressure lowering trial in Aotearoa

    … share the lessons we learnt during the conduct of SALTS, a remote blood pressure lowering trial in Aotearoa, New Zealand, where a smartphone app was part of the intervention package.  Our … plans alongside development plans and continue to retest after bug fixes throughout the live trial; three, have a …
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  • How to Systematically Reduce the Border Failure Risk for COVID-19 in Aotearoa/NZ

    … With the 2020 election over and with a newly elected government, it is an excellent time for a … spread (eg, US, UK, India) until the prevalence of infection in travellers is low. This was the approach taken … indoor event attendance) for a certain number of days after each work shift? Review mechanisms of viral spread in …
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  • Where do the parties stand? Taxes to protect health and reduce inequity

    … Centre contacted each of the five major parties with a set of questions about their position on five areas … have major impacts on protecting public health, building a fairer society and achieving environmental protection. A … current tax brackets to compensate for inflation. After our survey, National released its tax policy – with …
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  • Why do so many fear the bicycle?

    … This is the reason given most commonly for not riding a bike on the road in New Zealand. In this blog, I summarise a paper we have just published quantifying the risk of … New Zealanders commonly engage in. For example, riding a bike to a rugby game is roughly 500 times safer than …
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  • Reducing nicotine in smoked tobacco products: A pivotal feature of the Smokefree Aotearoa proposals

    … The NZ Government has published a discussion document outlining an Action Plan for the … VLNCs find these cigarettes unsatisfying and as a result often cut down on the number of cigarettes they smoke, have … elicited limited “compensatory” smoking for a few days, after which people who continued smoking typically showed a …
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