Media

Premature deaths and illness linked to cooking with gas stoves should prompt action to improve indoor air quality
25 September 2025

College welcomes appointment of new General Manager
22 July 2025

College supports calls for greater regulation to address Campylobacter infection
17 July 2025

College welcomes appointment of Dale Bramley as CEO of Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora
26 June 2025

Open letter to Minister of Health: Role of Public Health Medicine Specialists
31 March 2025

Changes to bowel cancer screening age at the expense of Māori programme deeply disturbing
6 March 2025

Urgent need for action to address increasing rates of diabetes
29 January 2025

College categorically opposes Treaty Principles Bill
6 January 2025

Treaty Principles Bill will harm Māori health and fuel racial division
7 November 2024

Cuts to the National Public Health Service shortsighted
7 October 2024

Key findings from Public Health Medicine Workforce survey cause for serious concern
28 August 2024

College of Public Health Medicine welcomes stronger focus on prevention and population health in GPS on health
23 July 2024

Cuts to the Warmer Kiwi Homes Scheme
6 June 2024

College of Public Health Medicine welcomes Police Commissioner’s calls for improved policies to reduce harms from alcohol and highlights link with cancer
5 June 2024

College of Public Health Medicine urges the Government to follow Australia’s lead in banning the use of engineered stone
29 January 2024

Open Letter: Disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora
5 December 2023

Health for Everyone | Ō Tātou Hauora
4 December 2023

Don’t undermine advances to end tobacco harm, public health experts urge
27 November 2023

Public health experts call for urgent action on Rheumatic Fever
7 September 2023

Sir Collin Tukuitonga to lead the New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine
7 June 2023

It's time for an evidence-based food strategy in Aotearoa New Zealand
13 October 2022

Let's strengthen measures aimed at changing Aotearoa New Zealand's drinking culture and reducing alcohol harm
29 September 2022

Let's support actions to make Aotearoa New Zealand Smokefree by 2025
29 July 2022

New directions for water fluoridation
27 July 2022

Public Health experts say that adding folic acid to bread flour is an important step to prevent unnecessary health risks
8 July 2021

Public health experts say New Zealanders should get vaccinated as soon as the vaccine is available
27 May 2021

CMC Media Release: Medical practitioners across NZ rally behind COVID-19 vaccination programme
29 April 2021

Let's ramp up efforts to make Aotearoa smoke free by 2025
15 April 2021

Fragmented, poorly led public health effort no match for 2019 measles outbreak, independent review finds
Article published in New Zealand Doctor magazine 8 October 2020 quoting Jim Miller. A subscription is required to view the article online.

Calls for long-term investment, upgrade of 'clunky' public health system
Story and interview with Felicity Dumble published on One News website 24 September 2020

Folic Acid in Bread: mandatory fortification could prevent 100s of miscarriages, says College of Public Health Medicine
Article in the New Zealand Herald, written by Nicholas Jones, published on 20 June 2020

Focus on population health in Simpson Report welcome, says College of Public Health Medicine
16 June 2020

COVID-19: Public health laid bare
Article from The Specialist magazine quoting Felicity Dumble and Caroline McElnay. Published June 2020.

COVID-19: Huge shortfall in public health investment, College of Public Health says
Article from Radio New Zealand website, quoting Dr Felicity Dumble
28 May 2020

While we have your attention ...
Editorial in the NZ Medical Journal (Vol 133 No 1514: 8 May 2020)
Felicity Dumble, Jim Miller, Maria Poynter and Phil Shoemack

More investment needed in public health
12 March 2020

More investment in public health needed
4 March 2019

Public health experts urge government to invest in public health
21 September 2018

Net zero emissions
16 July 2018

Strengthen local alcohol policies, say public health experts
25 May 2018

More immunisation needed for Māori and Pacifica
30 April 2018

Government must set targets to reduce child poverty that set an expectation of equity
7 December 2017

Antibiotic Awareness Week
13 November 2017

Sustainability core to the health of people
23 May 2017

Child Poverty Monitor 2016: poor progress
13 December 2016

Growing up in NZ: Government decision seams senseless
19 October 2016

Resistance to antibiotics is a looming health crisis, says College of Public Health Medicine
21 September 2016

NZ's childhood obesity needs 'addressing urgently'
30 August 2016

Support for Hawke's Bay public health workers
18 August 2016