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Advocacy in Leadership Training Workshop – Esperance, Kepa Kurl I 2- 3 September 2025

Goldfields Environmental Health Clinical Referral Workshop

Mel showcases the importance of partnerships to ensure holistic and sustainable projects at the National Environmental Health Conference in Brisbane on the 6 May 2025

New team member – Dr Peter Franklin

The #endingtrachoma team facilitates two healthy home projects in Warbuton and Roebourne – February and March 2025

Scott Mackenzie presents at the Rural Health West Conference – March 2025

The Food Security in Remote Communities Project heads to Warburton – February 2025

The #endingtrachoma team visits Wiluna – March 2025

PHAI Convenes a two-day advocacy course in Broome – March 2025

Director, Christina Pollard becomes Professor

The trachoma project reducing preventable blindness in Western Australia

‘I’m scared we won’t have money for food’: how children cope with food insecurity in Australia

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

August 2024: PHAI joins the “Calling out unhealthy sponsors in the Olympics” Campaign

July 2024: The #endingtrachoma team pilot the first Environmental Health Clinical Referral Response workshop in the Pilbara

July 2024: Mel flies into Townsville to facilitate an Advocacy in Action workshop, partnering with AHPA (Q)

Resources & Tools

PUBLICATIONS General Advocacy

Some great websites to follow to stay up to date with evidence and advocacy

Advocacy in Action Toolkit authored by PHAI

The Voice to Parliament Handbook

Lead the Way

Youth Voices in Health Advocacy Spaces: A Guide for Youth in the Childhood Obesity Space

Using the media to enhance your advocacy: 7 tips

Case Study: Filling Gaps

#endingtrachoma Hand and Face Washing Video

Webinars: Connecting To Secure Healthy Food For All West Australians

Latest E-news

PHAI produces a bi-monthly e-newsletter. The Advocacy in the Spotlight showcases contemporary advocacy across a diverse range of sectors. These examples show the diverse nature of advocacy campaigns and projects, highlight the importance of advocacy and are provided as inspiration for you to advocate on behalf of your cause or passion.

We invite you to send us an email if you would like to showcase your advocacy project, share your experiences, innovations and advocacy tips with us at PHAI@curtin.edu.au or submit the form below. You can access the 2024 e-newsletters here.