UN Global Road Safety Week: Compelling co-benefits of lowering speed on our streets

Media release

To support the 6th UN Global Road Safety Week’s ‘streets for life’ campaign (17-23 May 2021), which calls for 30 km/h (20 mph) urban streets, The George Institute has set out the compelling co-benefits of lowering speeds in ensuring safe, healthy, green and liveable cities.

Could prescriptions for fruit and veg instead of pills help prevent diet-related disease?

Media release

Researchers from The George Institute for Global Health and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts University reviewed 13 healthy food prescription programs that either subsidised, or directly provided healthy foods like fruit and vegetables as a form of medical treatment. They found people not only ate more of these foods, but also saw improvements in weight and blood glucose.

Event

Coffee with Latin America - ‘Research in partnership: Indigenous and Tribal communities’

coffee with LA

Join us to discuss ‘Research in partnership: Indigenous and Tribal communities’ in the next session of The George Institute for Global Health's 'Coffee with Latin America' series.

Panellists will share perspectives on the approach to research and processes for community involvement, government and capacity building, and the use of Indigenous methodologies that focus on community research. The webinar will be relevant to the entire global health community, especially those researchers and policymakers with an interest in Indigenous health and wellbeing.

This series aims to facilitate global collaboration and learning and provide an opportunity for outreach and connection with the global health community.

 

Speakers

  • Preety Rajbangshi

    Senior Research Fellow – Global Women’s Health, The George Institute for Global Health, India

    Preety
  • Carol Zavaleta, MD, PhD

    Wellcome International Training Fellow, Postdoctoral investigator, Unidad de Ciudadania Intercultural y Salud Indígena (UCISI), Facultad de Salud Pública, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru

    carol
  • Dr Julieann Coombes, PhD

    Research Fellow, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health Program, The George Institute for Global Health

    Julieann