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History Talks - HCNSW Podcasts5 Years on from COVID-19: lessons from past health crises and the future of global healthSend us a text5 Years on from COVID-19: lessons from past health crises and the future of global healthJoin an engaging discussion with our distinguished panel of public health and virology experts, who explore enduring infectious diseases like HIV, tuberculosis, and mpox, five years after the discovery of COVID-19. This episode highlights how pandemics have historically reshaped our world and demonstrates the transformative impact of cross-disciplinary collaboration in addressing global health challenges. The panelists confront the stigma and misinformation surrounding mpox, HIV and Covid-19, advocating for empathy and transparent communication to build trust. They...2024-11-251h 38
SHE Research PodcastSHE Pod Season 5 Episode 5 : Chris Degeling and Julie Leask - Public Values to Guide Childhood Vaccination Mandates Report on Four Australian Community Jurys.
Host: Dr Diego Silva
Guests: Chris Degeling and Julie Leask
Article: Link Transcript: Provided by Otter.ai Project Editor: Regina Botros Music: 'Years' by Death By Ginger
2024-07-0442 min
Joint ActionJulie's journey with osteoarthritisJulie Leask is a social scientist and professor of public health at the University of Sydney. She and her team conduct research looking at vaccination and what people think, feel and do about it. She has a background in nursing, midwifery and a masters degree in public health. Julie lives in Sydney on Dharug country with her husband and two adult children. She also has had osteoarthritis of her knees for three decades. On this week's episode of Joint Action, Julie shares her journey with us.CONNECT WITH USTwitter: @ProfDavidHunter @jointactionorgEmail: hello@jointaction.infoWebsite...2023-08-0640 min
Clear as Mud14. 'Psychological antibodies' and clear as mud messages on COVID vaccinationsWe talk to Professor Julie Leask, the person who coined the term 'vaccine hesitancy' about what governments got right - and wrong - about COVID messaging. Spoiler alert: Humour often works best, even when talking about a global pandemic!2022-08-3145 min
Moments of ClarityEpisode 49 - ’A Mission in Health’ with Professor Julie LeaskToday on Moments of Clarity, I speak to Professor Julie Leask.
Julie is professor at the University of Sydney’s Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery. Her research over 24 years has focused on the social and behavioural aspects of immunisation. She has a PhD, a Master of Public Health and nursing and midwifery qualifications. Julie is visiting fellow at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance where she previously worked for 12 years and set up the social science unit. She currently chairs the World Health Organization’s Behavioural and Social Drivers of Vaccination worki...2022-01-2459 min
Shirtloads of ScienceCovid & Comms with Professor LeaskCovid continues to test public health and communications. Our best explainers have put themselves in the front line to keep us safe. Some, including Professor Julie Leask, have been threatened. Dr Karl discusses why health professionals have been under attack for doing their Job. drkarl.com2021-11-2127 min
Avant on the goCOVID-19 vaccines: what’s next?Professor Julie Leask shares her insights on the complexities of the COVID-19 vaccination program and trust promoting measures to improve vaccination uptake.2021-11-1943 min
What's That Rash?How do I talk to people who don't want to be vaccinated?As vaccination rates increase and restrictions ease, plenty of us are starting to make plans for the Christmas and New Year breaks.But in most of Australia, restrictions aren't easing for everyone. For many people who aren't vaccinated, restrictions are staying or even getting harsher. So is this fair? Is it an effective way of getting the vaccination rate up? And how do you navigate tricky conversations with loved ones who don't feel the same way as you about the vax?GUEST:Professor Julie Leask, a social scientist and professor in the Susan...2021-11-1013 min
NPS MedicineWise PodcastsEpisode 33: Talking to parents about the COVID vaccineIn this episode, NPS MedicineWise medical advisor Dr Caroline West interviews Professor Julie Leask to discuss the COVID 19 vaccination and it’s availability to children over the age of 12. They discuss the hesitancy some parents have toward the vaccines and how to address the questions parents have.
Professor Leask works with the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, the Sydney Institute for Emerging Infectious Diseases, is a Visiting fellow for the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance and works at the Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Australia2021-10-2225 min
Joint ActionGetting people to do what is good for their health: lessons from vaccination with Prof Julie LeaskDespite the numerous guidelines supporting exercise and weight loss/management for osteoarthritis, they are challenging to implement in day-to-day life. Key actions for management are often not reaching health care providers and patients do not always receive high-value care. One of the biggest barriers to behaviour change is getting people to start and adhere to a lifestyle intervention. On a systems level, there are major challenges with access to care and communication regarding optimal care. On this episode of Joint Action, in an era being affected by COVID, Julie Leask joins us to discuss how we can improve behaviour...2021-08-0847 min
Sydney IdeasCOVID-19: What we know nowCOVID-19 has fundamentally changed the world we live in. Moving forward, how might we navigate work, health and wellbeing, and safety with COVID as an ongoing and evolving factor in the long-term?
Hear from academic experts at the University of Sydney, as they share insights into lessons from the pandemic and what it might mean for us all into the future.
We discuss:
– What we’ve learned about COVID-19 in the past 18 months
– Australia’s approach to managing the health crisis
– What a long-term COVID-normal looks like
The panel:
– Professor Julie Leask, Faculty of Medicine and Health
– Professor Ramon Shaban, Marie Bashir Inst...2021-06-3055 min
This Working LifeCOVID-19 vaccinations at work: rights, responsibilities and relationshipsSex, religion and politics have long been hot button topics at work. But in 2021 we can now add another. Vaccinations. So how do we talk about the COVID-19 jab without coming to blows?GUESTS:Dr Norman Swan host of the Health Report and co-host of Coronacast.Professor Julie Leask, social scientist specialising in vaccination uptake, programs and policy. She is a visiting fellow, National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, University of SydneyDistinguished Professor Richard Osborne, epidemiologist and director of the Centre for Global Health and Equity at Swinburne University of Technology2021-06-0625 min
FiresnakeNo Jab No Pay Tuesday 2 November 2015Julie Leask on vaccine adverse events2021-04-1601 min
Really Interesting WomenProfessor Julie LeaskEp. 32 Professor Julie LeaskJulie Leask is a social scientist specialising in risk communication and vaccination uptake. She has qualifications in nursing and midwifery, a Master of Public Health and a PhD in public health. She is an advisor to the World Health Organization on vaccination acceptance and demand issues. Her research has covered communication issues surrounding pandemics, outbreaks, and vaccine safety incidents. She has also looked at public/healthcare worker perceptions and behaviours during these events and media coverage of them.She has some answers for us. #RIW #Reallyinterestingwomen #julieleask #covidvaccine #vaccinationuptake #richardinstagraham...2021-04-1438 min
Coda ChangeCodaZero Cure - Full VideoIn this episode of CodaZero Cure our stellar line-up of panellists take a deep dive into Sepsis post Covid-19 and reflect on the many opportunities and challenges presented. First, we hear from vaccination uptake expert, Julie Leask, on Covid, vaccination and medical misinformation. Julie highlights some of the key drivers of vaccination hesitancy in society and challenges us, as health professionals, to work together to better inform our community. Next, Senior Intensive Care Registrar, Khairil Musa, presents a moving talk about his experience of managing Covid on the front line in Yemen. Reflecting on an unbelievable experience, Khairil describes...2021-03-131h 27
Nursing AustraliaEp8. It beginsIn this episode of Nursing Australia, hosted by Suzanne Blackeby, we hear: - The latest Nursing Australia News (01:25)The rollout begins, a nurse steps in during a COVID vaccine overdosing error, the WHO warn of ‘long COVID’ and The Royal Commission into Aged Care final report handed down. - APNA’s campaign for MBS items (03:47)The Australian COVID-19 Vaccination program is up and running with thousands of Australians expected to be vaccinated in the coming weeks, including residents in Aged Care. While this implement...2021-02-261h 10
The BriefingYou’ve seen the ad. Will you get the vaccine?Does the federal government’s new Covid-19 ad campaign make you more likely to get the vaccine shot when it becomes available later this year? The grim reaper AIDS campaign in the 80s scared Australians into a generation of safe sex. Will the Covid-19 campaign convince the nation to roll up our sleeves to get the coronavirus vaccine. We're joined by Dan Gregory, the advertising guru; and Professor Julie Leask, a public health expert from the University of Sydney. In today's headlines: QLD Premier seeks JobSe...2021-01-2822 min
7NEWS Australia Podcast7NEWS Extra | COVID-19 Update: Regional NSW towns exposed to the virusA number of regional New South Wales towns have been put on alert after a young man travelled thousands of kilometres through the state while unknowingly infectious with COVID-19; while Victoria is urging all states and territories to follow its lead and test international flight crew after a Qatar Airways flight attendant returned a positive result. Guests include infectious diseases expert Professor Peter Collignon, Orange Mayor Reg Kidd, Professor Julie Leask from the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, NSW Acting Premier John Barilaro and CEO of SkyTrans and former Qantas executive Alan Milne. Audio from Sunrise....2021-01-0628 min
Sydney IdeasWhat happened to 2020? The year in reviewIt's been a big year. We’ve put together a few of our key talks, with leading thinkers from the University of Sydney and beyond to reflect on 2020 and what might lie ahead in 2021. Take a listen, and dive into the longer talks. Sydney Ideas will be back with more talks and ideas in the new year!
FEATURING:
– Mark Scott AO, The road ahead [00:00:00]
– Professor Tim Soutphommasane, Combating viral panic [00:00:27]
– Professor Ian Hickie, COVID-19 and mental health [00:0035]
– Professor Julie Leask, The vaccination gap [00:00:57]
– Professor Jaky Troy, In this together [00:01:10]
– Sam Mostyn, Rebuilding Australia's future [00:01:35]
– Mariam Mohammed, What will the future of women's work lo...2020-12-1604 min
10 News First PersonThe Conspiracy Virus Part 1: Covid and VaccinesIn the first of this two-part series hosted by 10 News First’s Hugh Riminton, journalists Olivia Rosenman and Antony Loewenstein look at the anti-vax movement and its various manifestations. Will Covid-19, and the speed of the new vaccines, fuel the movement's growth? How will people’s attitudes be shaped by their existing understanding of, and ideas about, vaccination? Will a minority of extreme anti-vaxxers take advantage of questions around the speed and rollout of a new vaccine to mobilise and recruit?FeaturingJulie Leask (University of Sydney professor and expert in behavioural insi...2020-12-1039 min
Contain This: The Latest in Global Health SecurityProf Julie Leask, Prof Amin Soebandrio and Sr Afu Tei on Vaccine UptakeWelcome to episode 20 of Contain This, brought to you by the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security. This episode is hosted by Camilla Burkot, a senior adviser with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Vaccine Access Taskforce, which will oversee the Australian Government’s recently announced Regional Vaccine Access and Health Security Initiative. This initiative will help to ensure that people across the Pacific and Southeast Asia are able to access safe, effective and affordable COVID-19 vaccines when they become available by supporting both procurement of vaccine doses and strengthening immunization policy and delivery pathways in our r...2020-11-1634 min
COVID19 Road to a vaccineVaccine confidence with Associate Professor Margie Danchin and Professor Julie LeaskIn episode 11 of our COVID19 Road to a vaccine series, our host, Nigel Crawford, speaks toexperts in vaccine confidence, Associate Professor Margie Danchin and Professor Julie Leask. Margie is a consultant paediatrician at the Royal Children’s Hospital, an Associate Professor within the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, where she is the leader of the Vaccine Uptake Group. Julie is a social scientist and professor in the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Sydney and a visiting Professorial Fellow at NCIRS (the National Centre for Immu...2020-08-3127 min
Conversations with CornesyConversations with Cornesy - Julie LeaskJulie Leask
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Sydney IdeasJulie Leask: The vaccination gap (12 May 2020)Vaccines have controlled or even eradicated some of the world’s most serious diseases. But the success of immunisation is limited by motivational and practical issues.
Scientists are currently working hard to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, yet the safest and most effective vaccines won’t be of any use if the public will not, or cannot, take them.
On International Nurses Day, Professor Julie Leask gave a talk about current research into routine immunisation and the critical role of nurse and midwives in influencing vaccination uptake.
Julie is a social scientist specialising in immunisation and an advisor to the Worl...2020-05-1230 min
Sydney IdeasCOVID-19: fear and anxiety (25 March 2020)The situation around COVID-19 is evolving at an astounding rate. Thinking beyond the physical health ramifications to the mental health, anxiety, communication and sense-making aspects, our panel looks at what's going on and do their best to make sense of the rapidly shifting series of events.
THE SPEAKERS
– Professor Nick Enfield, Department of Linguistics
– Professor Ian Hickie, Brain and Mind Centre
– Dr Claire Hooker, Faculty of Medicine and Health
– Professor Julie Leask, Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery
– Professor Agnieszka Tymula, School of Economics
– Professor Annamarie Jagose (Moderator), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
WHAT WE COVER
– Why our words matter: how w...2020-03-2551 min
The Good GPRACGP SPECIAL COVID-19 PODCAST | Irrational behaviour in pandemicsThe Good GP interviews Professor Julie Leask, current winner of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence, on the psychology and societal behaviour of pandemics, and what we as GPs can do to improve this.
This episode was recorded on Wednesday 18 March 2020. As information on COVID-19 changes daily, please note that some of the advice in this podcast may no longer be current by the time of listening.2020-03-1915 min
The Good GPRACGP SPECIAL COVID-19 PODCAST | Irrational behaviour in pandemicsThe Good GP interviews Professor Julie Leask, current winner of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence, on the psychology and societal behaviour of pandemics, and what we as GPs can do to improve this.
This episode was recorded on Wednesday 18 March 2020. As information on COVID-19 changes daily, please note that some of the advice in this podcast may no longer be current by the time of listening.2020-03-1815 min
Sydney IdeasCOVID-19: What are the facts? (11 March 2020)Since COVID-19 (the novel coronavirus) first emerged in December last year there’s been a lot of uncertainty, anxiety and misinformation. As of Thursday 12th March, the World Health Organisation has officially declared a pandemic.
The situation is of course rapidly developing. But it’s useful to get some perspective. What can we do to prepare and respond to this issue?
On Wednesday 11 March we hosted an information session with academic experts from the University of Sydney to answer critical questions, from health facts to broader societal implications in Australia.
THE PANEL
– Associate Professor Adam Kamradt-Scott, expert in global health securit...2020-03-1346 min
Open for DiscussionVaccination: A researcher's insight - Associate Professor Julie LeaskVaccination is a health topic that can polarise a community with extreme positions on either side of the debate. Groups that adamantly support general vaccination and those who vehemently oppose any government mandate to make it compulsory.
By-and-large these are minority groups. So what about the people in the middle? People who may be wavering in their decision to vaccinate or not to vaccinate?
Julie Leask, an associate professor and social scientist at the University of Sydney talks about strategies to engage those who are undecided on vaccination.
As a leading policy researcher who specialises in vaccine acceptance Julie has...2016-09-3000 min
Podcast! The ComicsEpisode 220 - Julie Coopering ItThis week a while ago, the boys got together to catch up, talk festivals, fermented fish and No Man's Sky! That game that generated a ton of controversy for disappointing people was, contrarianly enough, something James quite enjoyed! But he also likes fermented fish. Also, comics? Also, the Moonshot Volume 2 Kickstarter is still live! Check it out and maybe consider giving it money so James has to do work! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1350078939/moonshot-the-indigenous-comics-collection-volume-2 2016-09-2051 min