The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre
About The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre
The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre (the Centre) is a national initiative that is researching and developing systems approaches to find the most effective ways to prevent lifestyle-related chronic health problems in Australia. The Centre is one of two National Health and Medical Research Council Partnership Centres launched in 2013 to improve the availability and quality of research evidence to policy decision makers. The Centre has been established to give health decision makers the best evidence to inform their policies and programs, and to provide the evidence and tools for a comprehensive approach to preventing chronic health problems that considers the health system as well as others sectors such as education, food production and retailing, and urban planning. The Centre is administered by the Sax Institute in Sydney and co-hosted by the Sax Institute and the Centre for Excellence in Intervention and Prevention Science in Melbourne. The Director is Professor Andrew Wilson, who has unparalleled leadership experience in management and transformational change at state government, university and health region levels. The team includes many of Australia’s international lead researchers in prevention, with 31 investigators from five states and territories and more than 20 universities, and government, non-government and private sector agencies. The investigators are champions of developing evidence from research, implementing research-informed changes to policy and practice, and innovative research methods. For more information visit our website: https://www.saxinstitute.org.au/our-work/preventing-chronic-disease/