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Discover stories about our people, and the passion that we have for medical training, health and medical issues, and the health and wellbeing of Pacific Island Countries and more.
Readers should be aware that while sharing our stories about Pacific health and medical issues, insights into medical training, and things related to PIC disease burden, from time to time, the stories found in this blog may contain images, references to, or voices of deceased persons.
Healthcare and a forgotten iced-tea
Morgan Lemin sat at a table by an open window in a nice café. The café, in the inner-city Brisbane suburb of Newfarm, lays in the purview of prestige car dealers, bohemian artisan galleries, gentrified warehouses turned apartments and more trendy cafes. Through the...
Rocketship an important step towards universal healthcare
Dr Stevenson KuarteiPalau’s Dr Stevenson Kuartei is working with Rocketship to help guide the development of post-graduate medical training in the Solomon Islands. He says Rocketship training represents an important step towards universal health care, but across the...
Graduating class celebrates triumph over adversity
Covid-19 pandemic and recent flash flooding have not stopped Australian and Timorese NGO Maluk Timor graduating 24 candidates in the Family Medicine Programme. The post-graduate students are the fourth and largest cohort to complete training designed through...
Love, humour, and kindness key to successful career
Meet Jill Benson and you’ll meet a mental-health practitioner, doctor and teacher. And she brings to that work love, humour, and kindness. It shows in her smile. Her smile suggests that, for Dr Jill Benson AM, medicine is about more than just science. Her smile is a...
Granite Belt doctor’s rural training improving Pacific health
“The only reason I live in Australia is a fluke of nature. So, I feel that the opportunity to contribute, if I can, means a lot to me... Queensland’s Granite Belt landscape sat comfortably around Dr Dan Manahan as he explained why he continues to work to provide...
Looking to the Solomons: Why Universal Health Coverage Matters
A truck bumps along a beach road, throwing up a sandy cloud in its wake. The road is rough, the day is hot and within the truck a woman holds on tight. The ride has cost her entire weekly food budget. It’ll take an hour for her to reach the nearest hospital. It is a...
Australian Health Leader Hears Melody of the Pacific
A cooling afternoon breeze seems to carry with it, like a Polynesian echo song, a cry that started in a Pacific nation like Tonga, Vanuatu, or Samoa. It is a cry that comes from the sick, the vulnerable and the dying whose lot is to be born in a beautiful Pacific...
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