The trachoma project reducing preventable blindness in Western Australia
PHAI article on CRANA We are on the road to eliminate trachoma in Australia, says environmental health expert Dr Melissa Stoneham. But Melissa, who heads up the service-delivery Environmental Health Trachoma Project (#endingtrachoma) run by the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) based at Curtin University, would dearly love to see the process speed up. Read […]
‘I’m scared we won’t have money for food’: how children cope with food insecurity in Australia
PHAI article on The Conversation Using the Australian government’s own data, our research found that food insecurity is higher among single parent families and those receiving government financial assistance. We also found that 43% of food insecure households seek help from welfare or community organisations. Read the article here.
Advocacy in Action Short Courses
Public health advocacy is not well understood yet it is a critical component of modern public health and health promotion.
August 2024: Young People’s Advocacy Course is piloted in Albury, Victoria
An energetic group of 16 young people gathered to undertake a one-day advocacy planning workshop in Wodonga, Victoria. Two local projects were conceived around local transport options and connections and also extending the existing Alphabet Crew support program to more regional areas.
August 2024: PHAI joins the “Calling out unhealthy sponsors in the Olympics” Campaign
If you are interested to see what this involved, jump on our X/Twitter account to check out the tweets or read the Olympics e newsletter here.
July 2024: The #endingtrachoma team pilot the first Environmental Health Clinical Referral Response workshop in the Pilbara
What a response! A total of 27 people attended the pilot workshop which was held at the Nintirri Centre in Tom Price. It was a valuable learning experience for all, but the best bit was putting into the practice all the new knowledge when the Pilbara EH team worked together to provide 27 healthy homes […]
July 2024: Mel flies into Townsville to facilitate an Advocacy in Action workshop, partnering with AHPA (Q)
Mel spent the day at James Cook University, working alongside 15 public health professionals to identify and plan three local advocacy projects. It’s great to run a workshop where 87% of the participants considered that following the workshop, they had the skills to develop an advocacy project or campaign as part of their role…and they […]
July 2024: Christina heads to Sweden to broker new partnerships
The University of Uppsala in Sweden invited Christina Pollard to visit their university to discuss potential international partnerships in public health. She gave a presentation to Professor Anna Sarkardi, staff and visiting Fellows about the possibilities, so watch this space!
June 2024: PHAI head to Poland to showcase work
PHAI staff Christina Pollard & Mel Stoneham attended the 9th International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) European conference in Lodz, Poland. During the conference, which was themed “Health Promotion – Cultivating Change through the Lifespan”, many new partnerships were forged & ideas sparked. Three oral papers were presented on preventing trachoma in remote […]
May 2024: Scott presents at the National Aboriginal Environmental Health Conference in Melbourne
Auspiced by enHealth, this national conference aimed to increase the understanding and awareness of environmental health issues in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, with a key focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander environmental health practitioners. Scott presented alongside an Environmental Health Practitioner from the Puntukurnu Aboriginal Medical Service and the Pilbara Aboriginal Health […]