Health research experts are united in their message - better disease prevention is urgently needed to save lives and to save the health system: healthierlives.co.nz/saving-our-hea… Boyd Swinburn Public Health Communication Centre @EDOR

Healthier Lives researchers have contributed their expertise to a major new report on how rebalancing our #food system can improve health and wellbeing. Science Challenge Director Prof Sir Jim Mann talked with Newshub about how this also saves money. newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeala…

Great to see Diabetes Australia supporting culturally inclusive, co-designed #diabetes research with Pasifika communities. Healthier Lives is also celebrating 7 years of Pacific-led co-designed NZ research to prevent #type2diabetes - see our most recent project: healthierlives.co.nz/research-updat…

We have modelled the health impacts of 5 food policies that could be implemented in NZ to improve the health of the population: thespinoff.co.nz/partner/09-07-…

Food is vitally important to our health and the health of our planet. The Sustainable NZ Kai project modelled 5 policies that could benefit both. Dr Cristina Cleghorn’s Public Health UOW research is featured in a comic by Toby Morris Toby Morris in The Spinoff today.

Find out more about this project at healthierlives.co.nz/research/susta…

Ebikes used to be conspicuously absent in Ngā Hau Māngere. That’s all changed since researchers, funders and the community came together to run #ebike trials. Watch this short film by Ollie Dawe to see how a community embraced the joy of cycling. youtube.com/watch?v=csw5PI…

Shared transport has benefits: more equitable access, less GHGe, greater social connection. A short film by Ollie Dawe describes how two residential communities in Ōtautahi Christchurch participated in research to see if shared transport would suit them. youtu.be/xguqs4pBLm0?si…

A revolutionary new technology is changing the game for #cancer care with a simple blood test. Healthier Lives researchers explore the potential of #ctDNA for improving cancer care in NZ, in the Sticking it to Cancer podcasts. open.spotify.com/show/1UYbdJo3G… podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/sti…

With a simple blood test, ctDNA provides a transformative, accessible and less invasive addition to current testing for cancer patients. Hear about this revolutionary technology in a new podcast series, Sticking it to Cancer. open.spotify.com/show/1UYbdJo3G… podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/sti…

The Healthier Lives National Science Challenge has officially come to an end. We would like to thank the researchers, communities and kaupapa partners who contributed to nine years of mission-led #health research, with many of the findings summarised here: healthierlives.co.nz/wp-content/upl…

Our latest #research on #foodenvironments from the HyPE study is now published with Springer Nature in BMC Nutrition doi.org/10.1186/s40795…! Healthier Lives - He Oranga Hauora #VisualAbstract