The Medical Journal of Australia

Vol 217, Issue 9: 7 November 2022. Sarah Larkins is Professor of Health Systems Strengthening at James Cook University. Dr Nicole Allard is a GP and COVID Clinical Lead at cohealth in Melbourne. Their Perspective -- Management of COVID‐19 in the community and the role of primary care: how the pandemic has shone light on a fragmented health system -- is part of an MJA Supplement -- Managing mild to moderate COVID-19 in Australia. They would like to acknowledge the contribution of the Primary and Chronic Care Panel of the National Clinical Evidence Taskforce. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 9: 31 October 2022. Professor Raina MacIntyre is Professor of Global Biosecurity at the Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales. Her new book, Dark Winter: an insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity is available from NewSouth Books from 1 November, 2022. Prof MacIntyre is one of the founders of OzSAGE, and developer of EPIWATCH. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 8: 17 October 2022. Dr Johanna Birrell is a public health and general medicine advanced trainee at the Northern Territory Centre for Disease Control. Professor Bart Currie is from the Royal Darwin Hospital and the Menzies School of Health Research. They discuss the prevention of invasive group A streptococcal disease, to accompany their research published here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 8: 10 October 2022. Professor George Braitberg AM is Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Melbourne and Austin Hospital. He is also the Emergency Medicine Head of the Centre for Integrated Critical Care Medicine. He talks about the way we can think about and respond to climate change through the lens of disaster medicine. To accompany his MJA Perspective published here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 7: 3 October 2022. Professor Mark Frydenberg is a Melbourne-based urologist, specialising in urologic oncology and cancer surgery. He talks about modern paradigms for the detection and management of prostate cancer, to accompany his Narrative Review published in the MJA. There is also an InSight+ article on this topic. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 7: 3 October 2022. Professor Rosemary Calder AM is Professor of Health Policy at the Mitchell Institute at Victoria University. Professor James Dunbar is Honorary Professor in Deakin University's School of Medicine. They discuss the Being Equally Well program for people with serious mental illness, which is the subject of their MJA Supplement and Editorial. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell.

Voice of the GP Episode 6: 26 September 2022. Dr Bailey Dunn is a Canadian who did her medical school and training in Australia, falling in love with Tasmania. She and her husband bought John Street Medical in Kingston, Tasmania just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. She introduced burnout prevention strategies which have saved the sanity and health of her GPs, given her patients more options, and have turned the practice into a financially viable proposition. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 6: 19 September 2022. Professor Ginny Barbour will take over as Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Journal of Australia and InSight+ on 23 January 2023. She was one of the founding editors of PLOS Medicine, and is currently Director of Open Access Australasia. She talks with MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell about her vision for the MJA going forward. 

Vol 217, Issue 6: 13 September 2022. Dr Lachlan McIver is an Australian rural generalist, currently working as the Tropical Diseases and Planetary Health Advisor for Medicines Sans Frontieres in Geneva. His book Life and death decisions, is now available from all good bookstores. If you are interested in working for MSF, visit https://msf.org.au/join-us. If you are a rural generalist interested in making a difference in Pacific Island nations, visit https://rocket-ship.org/rocketship. If you are interested in delivering telemedicine in rural and remote New South Wales, visit https://wnswlhd.health.nsw.gov.au/our-services/telehealth/. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.

Vol 217, Issue 5: 5 September 2022. Dr Wendie Berg is Professor of Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Ms JoAnn Pushkin is a breast cancer survivor and advocate for breast density notification. Together they founded DenseBreast-info.org, providing resource and educational material for patients and doctors about the importance of breast density for breast cancer risk. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.