Health and climate change plea
April 17th, 2014
Read the article from the West Australian, and thanks to an EXCLUSIVE by CATHY O’LEARY MEDICAL EDITOR The West Australian April 16, 2014, Leading health researcher Fiona Stanley has warned…
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Pre-schools in the slum areas of Ahmedabad, India
April 8th, 2014
What we see in reading about the Anganwadi Project are many of the principles at work in Housing for Health. We hope you enjoy reading about the project and the exciting…
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Plumbers and health – what a good idea
April 3rd, 2014
Whether in Australia, Nepal, Bangladesh or South Africa, Healthabitat needs little convincing about how the work of plumbers contributes to improving health. So it is a great leap forward to…
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The spread of Housing for Health: The Guide
April 2nd, 2014
Since the launch in early October 2013, Housing for Health: The Guide, the number of people visiting the site has grown and the spread has broadened from Australia to an…
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TED X – a year on
March 28th, 2014
Reflections on the TED X talk ‘Housing for Health’ a year on reveal some interesting results. It would be easy to see the whole TED circus as a self promoting…
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The Nepal Village Sanitation Program…the movies
March 6th, 2014
Have a look at two short movies, made to capture aspects of the The Nepal Village Sanitation Program. The Nepal Village Sanitation Program The Village Sanitation Program Nepal from…
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Housing for Health – TEDx Sydney to California
February 25th, 2014
This short talk is about Housing for Health, and the connection between your health, the living environment and design. Presented in May 2013 at TEDx in the Sydney Opera House,…
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The new toilet
February 23rd, 2014
The Gates Foundation held a competition for a new toilet to improve the world. The competition winners have been working on the constructing the final product, and it is ready…
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Sanitation Studio Nepal 2014 – telling the story
January 18th, 2014
How do you tell the story of the Village Sanitation Program, in a short time, to a diverse audience of potential supporters? This was the problem put to Australian film…
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Health Hardware Design: A Design Research Journey Towards A Healthier Australian Indigenous Living Environment
December 5th, 2013
This design book showcases ‘his sustained commitment to improving standards of Indigenous Australian Environmental Health through his innovative designs of health hardware’. Christian sets out the applied design research…
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50% of website traffic
November 22nd, 2013
For over 2 months, 50% of Healthabitat website traffic has been international visitors. HH notes this trend and also that the enquiries coming to the site are from an increasingly…
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High hopes for “the indigenous dozen”
November 22nd, 2013
Patricia Karvelas writes in The Australian – “Tony Abbott has recruited 12 of the most powerful business and indigenous figures in the country to provide advice on Aboriginal economic reform, including…
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