Director of Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne

Joined July 2009
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Barbara McPake retweeted
A vote for Labour or Conservative is a vote for genocide.
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There are a few poor regions of Northern Europe but no poor countries. #ImSNP for independence
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Launching a call for original research on Health Systems and Diabetes. If type 2 diabetes were a communicable disease WHO would have declared it a pandemic the last 40 years, Please forward to your network. think.taylorandfrancis.com/a…

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sciencedirect.com/science/ar… What is happening to socio-economic patterning of NCD risks across the world, and might the aggressive marketing of infant from the 1960s onwards in LMICs have something to do with it? New paper.

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protect-au.mimecast.com/s/t1… Time to bring health systems analyses to bear on economic evaluation conclusions? You might get more policy buy-in.

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irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/… I'm often asked 'Why Liverpool?' as I have no particular connection to the City - here's a piece that captures why, if there's any English team a ScotNat or antiestablishmentarian can support, it's Liverpool.
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Barbara McPake retweeted
Congratulations to our home city of Liverpool on winning the FA cup!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 To celebrate we’re sharing our artwork ‘Painting The Town Red’.
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Barbara McPake retweeted
"Gove wants to privatise the NHS, Johnson wants to charge people for health services and Duncan Smith advocates moving to a social insurance system. The NHS is about as safe with them as a pet hamster would be with a hungry python..." - former Tory Prime Minister, Sir John Major.
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We couldn’t agree with this more. Please RT if you do too, and follow us to help the fight against privatisation of the NHS. It’s a battle none of us can afford to lose. #ScrapTheBill
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Barbara McPake retweeted
WHO are urging #COP26 attendees to put #Health at the heart of #ClimateTalks. Dr Gillian Lê explores why. ow.ly/FS3750GzQER @bmpake @UniMelbMDHS #ClimateReport #ClimateChange

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Our Principal Advisor, Reihana Mohideen, is working with @IEEESA's Dignity, Inclusion, Identity, Trust, and Agency Program to integrate #GenderEquality & #SocialInclusion in system design, policy & planning of energy projects. ow.ly/AQGK50Gy4iR @UniMelbMDHS
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Barbara McPake retweeted
Economic assessments of #HealthCare funding need to move to include the significant societal contributions by the elderly. Read more by Prof Ajay Mahal et al in @theMJA #FinancingMatters #MBS @unimelbMSPGH @bmcpake
25 Oct 2021
Valuing the elderly: limitations of cost-effectiveness models … Prof Ajay Mahal et al write #freeaccess in InSight … "more attention needs to be directed to underused interventions that could help unlock socially productive capacity of elderly" insightplus.mja.com.au/2021/… #medtwit
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Barbara McPake retweeted
If everybody who is in favour of this followed and retweeted we’d reach a million followers by midnight and be much stronger together.
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Who wants to kill you by telling you not to get the vaccine and why? @bmcpake discusses who benefits from increasing your chances of dying in this pandemic. #IssuesInGlobalHealth @UniMelbMDHS @enenbee @H_S_Global ow.ly/tGOY50GpJII
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Barbara McPake retweeted
Replying to @bmcpake
@bmcpake I feel so proud to have studied my PhD at the @NossalInstitute. Thanks for the wonderful mentorship and team work @alison__morgan @meghanbohren @googarmstrong and @ Michelle Kermode
Replying to @AntenehAsef
@AntenehAsef research has improved global understanding of respectful maternity care and has influenced policy in Ethiopia. Anteneh shares his experience studying a #PHD at #NossalInstitute ow.ly/vc1b50Gnptp #MaternalHealth @UniMelbMDHS @bmcpake
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Replying to @AntenehAsef
@AntenehAsef research has improved global understanding of respectful maternity care and has influenced policy in Ethiopia. Anteneh shares his experience studying a #PHD at #NossalInstitute ow.ly/vc1b50Gnptp #MaternalHealth @UniMelbMDHS @bmcpake

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"They say we are money minded… But we just do it quietly, otherwise even those with money will come & say that ‘we are being discriminated’" Paper explores how the private health sector thrives in high poverty settings in Uganda @bmcpake @Justinenamakula rebuildconsortium.com/resour…
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26 Sep 2021
Hats off to the @NossalInstitute team led by @bmcpake for designing such an informative, interesting and thought-provoking course! 👏
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