Upcoming events

Lowitja Institute’s International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference is a biennial event attracting a global audience committed to sharing knowledge for the health and wellbeing of indigenous peoples and communities.

It is a space for sharing innovative ideas and transformational research grounded in our ways of knowing, being and doing. 

Public Health Association of Australia's Communicable Diseases & Immunisation Conference 2023 will explore how crucial the science of communicable diseases and immunisation is to the successful functioning of the world, and how quickly scientific and societal developments in the field change.

The Conference theme is “Adapting to a new landscape for infectious disease prevention and control”.

The 9th Rural and Remote Health Scientific Symposium is brought to you by the Australian Rural Health Education Network (ARHEN), the Federation of Rural Australian Medical Educators (FRAME), the Lowitja Institute and the National Rural Health Alliance (NRHA).

It will bring together the rural and remote health research sector with policymakers and others in the government and non-government sectors to shape the future of rural and remote health research.

Australian Women's Health Network and Multicultural Centre for Women's Health are hosting a lunchtime webinar Tuesday 20 June for policy makers, health advocates, and people who play a role in shaping our health systems.  

This webinar will explore the importance of gender equity in our health workforce and share insights from the Health in My Language program.

This is an in-person event held at The University of Sydney Chau Chak Wing Museum, Camperdown on Thursday 22 June 2023. This workshop is ideal for those working in health and wellbeing-related roles in policy and practice settings and intended for those who are actively considering the use of citizen science approaches within their own work.

The Australian Health Promotion Association WA Branch invites you to the 2023 AHPA WA Branch General Meeting and Awards Night on Friday 23 June 2023. 

AHPA’s National Annual General Meeting (AGM).

Friday 30th June, 12.30-2.15pm AEST.

This is a free, members only event.

Registration is now open. 

You are invited to join us for a webinar to share the results of the first National Workforce Survey for Parent, Family and Child Mental Health in 2020/21. 

The results of the survey provide a snapshot in time of workforce capability to respond to children and families, and will provide useful information for those representing professions, sectors or regions, as well as interested practitioners. We hope this data will be used to help guide decisions about how best to support workforces.

Click here to register.

Register your interest for the upcoming Dietitians Australia 2023 Conference.

Australia's leading knowledge sharing and networking event for the play, recreation and sport industry. 

This two-day event brings together leading experts from Australia, Asia Pacific and around the globe, offering the most up-to-date and inspiring content, highlighting innovative solutions to the industry’s challenges, and showcasing an impressive array of new products, services and technology in the integrated and free to attend expo.

Click here to read more about this event and to register.

Public Health Association of Australia's Screening Symposium 2023 will take place in Melbourne on Tuesday 1st August 2023 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC). 

The Migration Conference (TMC) 2023 is hosted by the Faculty of Law at Universität Hamburg, Germany.  The TMC is a venue for academics, policymakers, practitioners, students and everybody who is interested in intelligent debate and research informed discussions on human mobility and its impacts around the world. 

Public Health Association of Australia's Australian Public Health Conference 2023, 'Investing in a strong, smart and sustainable public health system for the future', will be held at the Hotel Grand Chancellor Hobart on Tuesday 26 to Thursday 28 September. 

The Centre for Evidence and Implementation, the National University of Singapore’s Centre for Behavioural and Implementation Science Interventions (BISI) and Monash University is co-hosting the Evidence and Implementation Summit 2023, in Melbourne, Australia, from Monday 9th to Wednesday 11th October 2023. 

The 2023 Asia Pacific Cities Summit (ACPS) and Mayors' Forum will be held in Brisbane from 11 - 13 October 2023 under the theme of Shaping Cities for our Future. This event is aimed toward city leaders and those involved in the business of cities, bringing together one of the largest and most diverse gathering of mayors in the region with the greatest impact. 

For more information and to register, please click here.

GAPC is the leading forum for the world’s alcohol policy makers, advocates, researchers, civil society activists and practitioners. 

The conference theme is: Investing in people before profits: building momentum towards the Framework Convention on Alcohol Control.

To find out more and to register click here.

Watch this space for more details - coming soon!

Our Food, Our Health, Our Earth : A Sustainable Future for Humanity

This conference will look specifically at gender and health, at health care delivery generally, the use of digital tools, and the necessary staffing and skills to provide good care. It will, in line with the overall  conference theme, look in depth at the climate emergency, and very specifically at the human food supply. 

Join the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA) and the Australian Multicultural Health Collaborative (AMHC) for the inaugural National Multicultural Health & Wellbeing Conference 2023. Address challenges, review best practices and explore how to improve access to health and wellbeing services for Australia's culturally and linguistically diverse population. This event will be held at the Sheraton Grand Sydney Hyde Park from 21-22 November 2023.

The 43rd Annual Society for Mental Health Research (SMHR) Conference will be held at the Rendezvous Hotel Perth Scarborough from 29 November to 1 December 2023.

The conference theme will focus on ‘People and Place’, encouraging attendees to broaden their perspective on research to include not just the who, but the how, what, where, and why of mental health research.