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| Dr Edward Cliff |
Dr Cliff is a medical resident with a passion for public health and health policy, especially in the area of nutrition, obesity and non-communicable diseases (such as stroke, heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure).
"Every day I see people who are suffering from diseases that exist largely as a consequence of our food system, among other factors. I think we unfairly stigmatise and place blame on individuals for their ill health, which most often is due to systemic factors rather than individual ones", said Dr Cliff.
Dr Cliff undertakes his research studies, "with the aim of one day persuading society to see these diseases as system diseases rather than blaming individuals, and crafting evidence-based policy to improve people's health and stem the tide of non-communicable diseases.
This scholarship is an opportunity to highlight the importance of public health policy in improving the lives of many Australians - an opportunity that Australia is currently missing when it comes to nutrition, obesity and non-communicable diseases", he said.
Dr Cliff said that the scholarship emphasises the key importance that inequity and the social determinants of health play in determining a person's likelihood to suffer ill health and the treatment options available to them.
"The scholarship is also a chance to highlight our responsibility as clinicians to build on our experience to improve the health system and social systems around us. Our hospitals, especially our emergency departments, so often reflect those people who our society and systems have most let down, and this gives us as clinicians a unique and important window - and thus in my view a responsibility to action - into how things might be improved", said Dr Cliff.
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