WA Branch

The Injury Prevention Summit 2021 will bring together injury prevention and safety promotion practitioners and policymakers and Local Governments from across Western Australia to build injury prevention and safety promotion activities within your work.

The Summit will showcase keynote speakers who have a broad understanding of the current state of injury prevention in Western Australia.  Breakout sessions will include a focus on success factors for injury prevention within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse, and regional and remote communities.

The Injury Prevention Summit will provide an opportunity for attendees to contribute to a discussion, as well as exchanging knowledge, ideas, and information across WA.

Register your expression of interest here: https://knowinjury.org.au/summit2021/ 

Uncertainties and ambiguities have always played a role in our lives. Clearly over the last year or so we have in varying individual degrees experienced an acute dose of it. Becoming emotional fit means we learn how to become even more emotionally flexible and adaptable. Becoming emotional fit means we gain a deeper sense of clarity of who we are, what matters,what doesn’t matter and what shouldn’t matter.

Registrations open soon!

The National Immunisation Conference has been held in Australia approximately every two years. The conference is an important vehicle for highlighting challenges relating to immunisation in Australia and the region. 

The Conference theme has been updated to ‘Immunisation in the COVID pandemic era’.  The previous theme was ‘Lifecourse immunisation – access, equity and innovation’.

The program provides lively and productive discussions and contributions from all professionals engaged in immunisation from laboratory bench to clinic, from academia and policy making to the service provision coalface.  

For more information: https://www.nic2021.com

2022 AHPA Scholarships Program 

The Australian Health Promotion Association (WA Branch) Scholarships Program for 2022 is now accepting applications. The Scholarships Program is funded by Healthway and this year will offer up to five six-month workplace scholarships starting in in early 2022: 

Applications for the 2020 Scholarships Program are due Friday 17 September 2021

2022 AHPA Scholarships Program - Applications now open!

Applications for the 2020 Scholarships Program are due Friday 17 September 2021

Health Promotion 12 Week Online Course: Planning, implementing and evaluating health promotion interventions

This flexible 12-week online course will provide you with an understanding of the role and importance of health promotion and the broader concept of health within a  community and national setting. The course aims to provide you with the skills needed to plan, implement and evaluate a health promotion program. You will be introduced to relevant health behaviour theories and health promotion frameworks as well as approaches to evaluation.

For more information click here.

The Conference is divided into Aged Care Session, Health Design and Build Session, Water Health Session, and an NDIS session. All are welcome to attend and network during lunch. Pay for the Aged Care session and join the NDIS or Health Design and Build Sessions at no further cost. 

Includes an update on the Government response to the Aged Care royal commission by David McMullen, the Serious Incident Response Scheme by Prue Campbell, Governance in Aged Care by Steven Coghlan, Rights, Risk and Safeguarding for people living with Dementia by Jason Burton and Obligations of Aged Care NDIS registered providers by Samantha Jenkinson.

For more information, click here.

Once every 3 months the Sexual Health and Blood-borne Virus Program at the WA Department of Health facilitates a forum on sexual health, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and blood-borne viruses (BBVs). The forum is designed to provide STI and BBV updates, professional development and networking opportunities. 

For more information, please click here or contact Teneille Wisby on (08) 9222 2326 or at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. An online option will also be available. 

The Third Place Subiaco (The Salvation Army), in partnership with City of Subiaco Positive Ageing are hosting the Silver Threads Concert. Please note, the price includes coffee and cake.

A range of women’s health presentations including “what GPs and Nurses need to know about familial breast cancer” (Dr Sharron Townsend), “The WA Syphilis Outbreak – Implications for pregnant women” (Dr Michelle Porter), “What to do about Heavy Menstrual Bleeding” (Dr David Owen), and “National Cervical Cancer Screening (Stacey Mae Partridge). 

For more information, click here. 

Join Telethon Speech & Hearing for a night of education and development as our panel of experts discuss the topic of hearing health, loss, interventions and support strategies. Presentations will cover common childhood ear diseases and the surgical interventions available, audiology testing techniques based on various age demographics, and effective teaching strategies for the classroom environment based on understanding how each individual student is impacted by their hearing loss.

For more information, please click here. 

In this event, we’ll unpack the steps towards the future of travel and border restrictions: state and international borders, regulation of travel, quarantine and vaccination requirements. What would it take for us to open up again, and what would this new world look like? What are the benefits of open borders – economically, socially, nationally – and what are the potential costs and risks?

For more information, click here.