Bio

Professor Graham Vimpani is head of the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Newcastle and head of community child health services within the Child and Youth Health Network in Newcastle. He has a background in community paediatrics and a longstanding interest in promoting child development through social justice and early intervention strategies that address the needs of families with young children.

Graham Vimpani's contributions:

Why we need to get the early years right

In Why we need to get the early years right Professor Graham Vimpani reports on the latest developments in the push for investment in early childhood intervention. The social, medical, and economic case for early childhood education and care is compelling. With an ambitious agenda for cooperation on human capital development floated at the most recent Council of Australian Governments meeting, Vimpani argues that the time is right to shift the balance of policy effort from downstream remediation to upstream prevention.

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The Case for National Investment in Early Childhood

Graham Vimpani urges the government to focus its energies on investing in early childhood. He argues that the early years of development are the most critical and that the investment will bring dividends for the individual as well as the nation.

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Why widening socioeconomic inequality should concern us all

Degrees of inequality are susceptible to social and economic policy, Graham Vimpani writes

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