Why do we need to #SwitchTheSalt? Almost everyone eats salt and almost everyone eats too much of it. Eating too much salt increases blood pressure, leading to heart attacks, strokes and deaths. Despite the efforts by governments and medical organisations over the last decade to reduce population salt intakes, little progress has been made. This is because people have become accustomed to the taste and dietary habits are hard to change. Salt is also a widely used ingredient in food manufacturing, and progress towards lowering levels in packaged foods has been slow. Find out more about our work to scale up the use of potassium-enriched salt across the global food supply. What is potassium-enriched salt? Potassium-enriched salt is a practical and scalable approach to lowering blood pressure and with it, the risk of strokes, heart attacks and death. Salt is made up of 100% sodium and chloride. A potassium-enriched salt, however, has some of the harmful sodium chloride replaced wi

When it comes to our health the story isn't balanced. But it should be. We are committed to achieving health equity through our sex and gender initiatives. We consider how sex and gender influence health and medical research because it is sound science and promotes the health of everyone. Discover how The George Institute is leading efforts to close the sex and gender health gap in a video by our Founding Director, Prof Robyn Norton, and a blog from our Chair in Global Women’s Health, Prof Jane Hirst. The George Institute's Sex and Gender Initiatives Centre for Sex and Gender EquityThe Centre for Sex and Gender Equity in Health and Medicine brings together researchers across Australia with an interest in the effects of sex and gender on health outcomes.Learn more The MESSAGE ProjectThe Medical Science Sex and Gender Equity project aims to improve the integration of sex and gender considerations in biomedical, health and care research in the United Kin