Perspectives

No consensus on research skills in medical curricula perpetuates the unmet need for clinician researchers

Diann S Eley · Wendy Hu · Nicholas J Talley

Health practitioners have the opportunity to contribute their expertise to help reduce the health consequences of climate disasters across the prevention, preparedness, response and recovery phases of disaster management

Sotiris Vardoulakis · Veronica Matthews · Ross S Bailie · Wenbiao Hu · Luis Salvador‐Carulla · Alexandra L Barratt · Cordia Chu

Dynamic consent has the potential to facilitate personalised medicine delivering on its goals

Liza Goncharov · Hanna Suominen · Matthew Cook

Aspirin and other antithrombotics are proven to be effective in reducing ischaemic stroke recurrence

Thanh G Phan · Benjamin Clissold · Henry Ma

Telestroke is an example of technology facilitating the delivery of time-dependent therapies in regional Australia

Carlos Garcia‐Esperon · Christopher F Bladin · Timothy J Kleinig · Helen Brown · Jennifer J Majersik · Andrew Wesseldine · Kenneth Butcher

High prevalence and associated health care and social costs demand a change in health care paradigms for functional neurological disorders

Elizabeth Pepper · Adith Mohan · Kenneth Butcher · Mark Parsons · Jackie Curtis

Seasonal affective disorder, a well documented syndrome in northern latitudes, has limited credence in Australia

Adriana G Nevarez Flores · Emmanuelle CS Bostock · Amanda L Neil

As the number of requests for raw genomic data increases, policies and protocols reflecting the perspectives of clinicians, patients, researchers and research participants are required

Jane L Nielsen · Carolyn Johnston · Tracey O'Brien · Vanessa J Tyrrell

Australia owes a debt to its IMGs; we need to improve how we manage the transition of an immigrant doctor to Australian practice

Neville D Yeomans · Ayaz Chowdhury · Alan Roberts

The Australian and New Zealand living stroke management guidelines provide timely, evidence-based updates to recommendations

Coralie English · Kelvin Hill · Dominique A Cadilhac · Maree L Hackett · Natasha A Lannin · Sandy Middleton · Annemarei Ranta · Nigel P Stocks · Julie Davey · Steven G Faux · Erin Godecke · Bruce CV Campbell

Supporting improved general practice is urgent, and quality improvement collaboratives are an effective Australian strategy

Andrew W Knight · John Fraser · C Dimity Pond

The continuation of chronic disease management in primary care remains essential during the COVID-19 pandemic

Anne Parkinson · Sethunya Matenge · Jane Desborough · Sally Hall Dykgraaf · Lauren Ball · Michael Wright · Elizabeth A Sturgiss · Michael Kidd

Colchicine is an inexpensive new treatment for coronary heart disease that is both safe and effective in select patients

Stefan M Nidorf · Jamie Layland · Philip C Robinson · Sanjay Patel · Peter J Psaltis · Peter L Thompson

Australia needs better data on health inequities to support building back fairer from the pandemic

Joanne Flavel · Martin McKee · Toby Freeman · Connie Musolino · Helen Eyk · Fisaha H Tesfay · Fran Baum

Health authorities need to develop a nationally consistent, sensible, ethical and jurisdictionally feasible process for disposal of educational human bone sets

Jonathan Coman · Simon S Craig · Anne‐Maree Kelly

COVID-19 has challenged and tested Australian general practice while reinforcing its centrality and potential

Claire L Jackson

Nations need to come together to plan and execute urgent actions to break through the obstacles to sharing essential intellectual property

Martin Hensher · Sithara Wanni Arachchige Dona

The NORDR is designed to protect workers and prevent occupational respiratory disease but will require widespread stakeholder engagement and interaction to succeed

Ryan F Hoy · Fraser J Brims

A precision medicine approach to asthma places the patient at the centre of their care

Vanessa M McDonald · Peter G Gibson

Lung cancer treatments and outcomes are changing, but survival remains a challenge

Fraser J Brims · Annette McWilliams · Susan V Harden · Ken O'Byrne

Information from trusted influential messengers that is clear and consistent might be successful in addressing patients’ beliefs in health-related conspiracy theories

Mathew D Marques · Karen M Douglas · Daniel Jolley

There is a lack of data relating to all-cause concussion in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Jonathan Bullen · Trish Hill‐Wall · Elizabeth Thomas · Richard Norman · Gill Cowen

Broader use of clinical quality registry infrastructure will enhance research- driven improvements in health care

Susannah Ahern · Belinda J Gabbe · Sally Green · Carol L Hodgson · Erica M Wood · John R Zalcberg OAM · Tsharni Zazryn

Australia to take a world-first step towards offering preventive DNA screening through the public health care system

For the DNA Screen Investigator Group†

A combination of targeted vaccinations and COVID-19 public health measures has led to reduced rates of invasive meningococcal disease and influenza

CR Robert George · Robert Booy · Michael D Nissen · Monica M Lahra