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Monday 19 January 2026
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Health and Medicine
Mind the gap: $2.5m initiative to improve mental health and wellbeing in the Shoalhaven
New patient centred initiative to tackle mental health and wellbeing in the Shoalhaven.
Education
Shoalhaven Campus closed today and open night postponed
The University of Wollongong Shoalhaven Campus will be closed today in the interests of safety after torrential rains caused widespread flooding throughout the region.
Professor leads Illawarra residents in health challenge
Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health Professor Alison Jones is encouraging Illawarra and Shoalhaven residents to join her in a study that will encourage and track weight loss in 2015.
Naval captain to present Shoalhaven Campus graduation address
Captain Stephen Hussey from HMAS Creswell will present the Occasional Address at the University of Wollongong’s Shoalhaven Campus summer graduation ceremony tomorrow (Friday 19 December).
Shoalhaven-developed program boosts inclusion for kids with disabilities
An innovative, Shoalhaven-developed program that encourages inclusion in the early years of life will be discussed at a free public forum in Wollongong on Thursday 20 November.
Starvation in the midst of plenty... Illawarra leading the way in addressing malnutrition in the elderly
Researchers from UOW and the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District have teamed up to develop novel ways to address malnutrition in senior citizens, with figures showing that a third of patients aged 65 and older who are admitted to hospital in the Illawarra are overtly malnourished, while a further 50 per cent are at high nutritional risk.