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Director at the McCabe Centre for Law & Cancer. She/Her All views expressed are my own.

Naarm / Melbourne, Victoria
Joined May 2013
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13 Years of Change 🌍 The @McCabe_Centre, co-founded by UICC, has been driving systemic change to improve cancer care. Watch their new video, launched on #WorldCancerDay: bit.ly/4aSbA9l
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Did you see our open letter calling for action to protect children from harmful marketing of unhealthy food? With forty-five consumer and health orgs, health leaders @terryslevin @ToddHarperAUS plus individuals like @jamieoliver and @Kon__K Read here: bit.ly/4hDK42i
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Our Director @hellisjones was in Canberra last week for the NCD Leadership Workshop ahead of the fourth UN High Level Meeting on NCDs and Mental Health workshop - with Australia’s Ambassador for Global Health, Dr. Lucas de Toca, and other experts. @dfat #NCDs @georgeinstitute
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This week we're at #OTCC24 presenting on tobacco industry interference, global governance for tobacco control, human rights, the plastics treaty, and reducing supply of tobacco across 8 sessions. @hellisjones @zhousuzanne @CancerCouncilOz @CancerCouncilWA #tobaccocontrol #Cancer
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Millions of people worldwide do not have access and/or cannot afford NCD care. The current gap is unacceptable. We need : ✅country leaders ✅state leaders ✅community leaders ✅civil society leaders to #LeadOnNCDs & spark the necessary changes✨ 👉actonncds.org
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What's law got to do with it? Everything! Why cancer prevention and control is a human rights law issue – hot topic being covered now at World Cancer Congress #WCC2024 by Tarishi Desai & panel @RachelDevotsu @RKitonyo1 @kenjilopezcueva @AlejandraDecima @FatiaKiyange
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Replying to @hellisjones
@hellisjones Hayley Jones and Tarishi Desai presenting today at World Cancer Congress, Geneva, on advancing the rights of cancer carers. Panel shared legal, economic and personal impacts. @uicc @GavinAllman @carmenauste @JaneKabaki #cancer #humanrights #WCC2024
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Celebrate integrity, social justice and systems change in tobacco control 💫 Nominations for the inaugural Tom Calma Award close 8 Oct 2024: tobaccofree.com.au/tom-calma… #OTCC2024 #SystemicChange @UniCanberra @MelissaSweetDr @CancerCouncilOz @ANUPopHealth @LowitjaInstitut @_PHAA_
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This week, our team is in Geneva presenting at World Cancer Congress and attending a series of meetings and workshops with the WHO, UICC and other key collaborators. If you're attending, we'd love to connect. See: mccabecentre.org/news-and-up…… #WorldCancerCongress @uicc #cancer
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Thanks so much @MelbLawSchool students for your excellent research that will assist us with a global overview of employment work rights for people living with cancer and their carers. Photo: Melbourne Law School’s students and Coordinator (front), & the McCabe Centre team (back).
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This month, our team is proudly hosting Dr Nurhaliza Zakariah, a Public Health Medicine Specialist from the Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health, Malaysia. (L-R) @Zhousuzanne @HellisJones, Dr Nurhaliza Zakariah, Tarishi Desai and @dianecomms. #cancerprevention
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Now out in MelbJIL- @mccabe_centre’s review of @lawrencegostin and @BenjaminMMeier's Global Health Law & Policy @OxUniPress – a timely volume that showcases how law can protect and promote health (review by @zhousuzanne, Tarishi Desai and @MaAnneRosales) law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/as…
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Although legal challenges by the tobacco industry remain a major barrier to implementing #TobaccoControl measures, countries can work together to defeat them. ❇️Out now in @TC_BMJ – lessons from 10 years of our @FCTCofficial Knowledge Hub tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/cgi/r…
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The “double crisis” of #ClimateChange and #NCDs are interconnected. Without action, they will erode hard-fought gains in health and development. How can we use law and policy to address these together, before it’s too late? mccabecentre.org/news-and-up… #WorldEnvironmentDay
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On air now: Tarishi Desai joins a panel discussing the use of genetic testing in life insurance on @RadioNational's #LifeMatters: abc.net.au/listen/live/radio…
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We welcome the call for a strengthened human rights framework in Australia, particularly the introduction of a national human rights act as a central action: mccabecentre.org/news-and-up…
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This #WorldNoTobaccoDay, we look at why we owe it to young people to continue to think big in the fight against industry interference. Law has worked in the past to protect young people, and it can work again: mccabecentre.org/news-and-up… @WHO #TobaccoExposed
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"This internship...has helped me understand what kind of work I enjoy, and what field of law I might like to go into in the future." 💐Thank you to our intern Penny Qin, who recently completed our internship program: mccabecentre.org/news-and-up… @MelbLawSchool
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17 days left to get your abstract in for the inaugural @_PHAA_ @VicHealth Commerce, Economy, Trade & Public Health Conference. I know, we chose a verrrrry sexy title, but let me sell it to you. 🧵cetph2024.com/call-for-abstr…
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