Your Health, Your Future

Health isn’t just about one behaviour, it’s about how sleep, rest and physical activity fit together across the day. Using data from wearable activity trackers, patterns across work weeks, weekends and holidays can show how time is actually spent. Environmental factors such as weather and climate also play an important role in this daily balance. Small shifts in behaviour can add up over time for our health and wellbeing.

What if blindness could be edited out of our DNA? Gene editing tools like CRISPR are changing how we think about treating disease - but in this game, precision is everything. How do you fix a harmful gene without damaging the healthy ones? This talk dives into the challenges, breakthroughs, and future of gene editing therapies, and how they could one day help restore sight.

Cardiovascular disease and diabetes are two common chronic diseases impacting healthcare costs in Australia. Providing access to diabetes and heart health checks at community events can inform individuals at high risk of cardiometabolic disease. This is important for community members who may not seek regular medical assessment or have limited general practitioner access. This presentation describes health assessment partnerships with Fat Farmers and the Shane Warne Legacy/SiSU Health.