Favourite projects

Caring for our health?

Client: All state and territory governments

Ragg & Co worked with all state and territory governments to provide a report card on the Australian Government’s performance in health care. Specifically, it presents a snapshot on major national…
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Quit for New Life

Client: NSW Health

We developed a training package and a complementary set of consumer resources aimed at reducing the prevalence of smoking among pregnant Aboriginal women in NSW. We worked closely with the…
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Healthy Weight Guide

Client: Australian Government Department of Health

We led a team comprising the Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise and Eating Disorders, now part of the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney, and Inca Consulting,…
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Journal article: The impact of smoking cessation on schizophrenia and major depression

Australasian Psychiatry 2013: 21(3); 238-245 Ragg M, Gordon R, Ahmed T & Allan J. Objective: This review sought to determine whether quitting smoking behaviour places people with a history of…
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Journal article: Citation bias in reported smoking prevalence in people with schizophrenia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 2009: 43; 277-282 Chapman S, Ragg M, McGeechan K Objective: A meta-analysis of 42 studies on tobacco smoking among schizophrenia subjects found an average…
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