The federal government has announced COVID-19 vaccination will now become mandatory for aged-care workers. This comes amid a slow and troubled rollout in the sector.
Researchers at the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney have been awarded $1.59 million to pursue the elimination of cervical cancer in rural Papua New Guinea.
Health workers have long called for better protections against COVID-19. Well fitting masks are now required when caring for COVID-19 patients. But the guidelines on ventilation miss the mark.
A research collaboration has retrospectively reviewed the effectiveness of Special Dementia Care Programmes for people with very severe dementia symptoms.
The Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, a debut novelist, and the co-founders of Shippit, the fastest-growing shipping platform in Asia Pacific, are some of the UNSW alumni recognised this year.
For the areas of cities with less than 10 per cent green space, increasing that to 30 per cent could cut the overall odds of residents becoming lonely by a quarter.
The new Connect and Care program, led by Karitane in collaboration with UNSW's Professor Valsmma Eapen and Associate Professor Jane Kohlhoff, the Australasian Association of Parenting & Child Health (AAPCH) and Parenting Research Centre, close
