WA Branch

The LiveLighter® Professional Development Forum will explore effective interventions, partnerships and collaborations in nutrition, physical activity and healthy weight.

Please join us for the latest in our series of seminars detailing components of the Department of Health’s report, Incidence and Costs of Injury in Western Australia 2012.

This briefing will provide an expert analysis of the impact of violence Injuries in WA, including health sector costs, long-term care costs, loss of paid productivity and loss of quality of life. Keynote presentations will be delivered from the perspectives of research, policy and practice, with a focus on how the data can be understood and applied to inform policy and program development, and strategies available to prevent violence injuries. The briefing will also be available via video conference (Videoconference information will be sent in the confirmation email).

Date: Wednesday 2 May 2018

Time: 9.00am to 10.30am

Venue: Grace Vaughan House, 227 Stubbs St, Shenton Park

Cost: FREE

REGISTER HERE

Know Injury is provided by Injury Matters and funded by the Western Australian Department of Health.

Effective evaluation will help you show the impact your program has on your target group and inform future strategies. It can also help show the value of your program to funders and help you to build evidence to attract future funding. This workshop will provide you with the knowledge and skills to design appropriate evaluation methods and give you the opportunity to develop an evaluation plan for current/future projects. The workshop content will include:

• Collecting and analysing localised data to set priorities;
• Understanding the difference between process, impact and outcome evaluation;Writing effective program goals and objectives;
• Collecting qualitative and quantitative data;
• Developing surveys and other evaluation tools;Considering ethics in evaluation and;
• Interpreting your results for a variety of audiences.

When: Thursday 3 May, 9.00am- 1.00pm
Where: Broome Lotteries House, Lot 642 Cable Beach Road East, Broome.
Cost: $25, morning tea will be provided

Register here

Pilbara Program Evaluation: How to demonstrate the impact of your program

Effective evaluation will help you show the impact your program has on your target group and inform future strategies. It can also help show the value of your program to funders and help you to build evidence to attract future funding. This workshop will provide you with the knowledge and skills to design appropriate evaluation methods and give you the opportunity to develop an evaluation plan for current/future projects. The workshop content will include:

Collecting and analysing localised data to set priorities;Understanding the difference between process, impact and outcome evaluation;Writing effective program goals and objectives; Collecting qualitative and quantitative data;Developing surveys and other evaluation tools;Considering ethics in evaluation and;Interpreting your results for a variety of audiences.

When: Tuesday 8 May, 9.00am- 1.00pm
Where: Karratha Leisureplex Meeting Room, Dampier Hwy, Karratha.
Cost: $25, monring tea will be provided

Register here

SiREN SYMPOSIUM 2018

The third biennial SiREN Symposium will bring together West Australian practitioners, clinicians, researchers, students and policy makers with an interest in sexual health and blood borne virus (SHBBV) issues. The Symposium will provide opportunities to:

• Connect with others in the SHBBV sector;
• Learn about the latest projects and research; and
• Build skills in research, evaluation and knowledge translation.

For the latest updates on the Symposium, including speakers, workshops, satellite events and more, please see https://siren.org.au/2018-symposium/.

The Symposium runs over 1.5 days, from 8:30am – 4:30pm on Thursday 17 May, and 8:30am – 1:00pm on Friday 18 May. There are satellite events planned for the late afternoon and evening of Thursday 17 May, however these will have a separate registration when they are advertised. Registrants will be updated of these events via email, or please check the Symposium website above for updates.

Registration for the SiREN Symposium includes a conference pack with full program, refreshments, and all meals throughout the Symposium. Please note there are no single-day registrations, the prices advertised below are for the full 1.5 day Symposium. Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you can only attend for one day.

Full-time student/ unwaged registration : $60
Early bird registration (prior to Thursday March 29 2018) : $120
Full registration (from Friday March 30 2018) : $150

In implementing The United Nations’ sustainable development goal “Good Health and Wellbeing”, it is important for health promotion, service provision, and advocacy to address how changing communication methods (digital networks) and new social attitudes (i.e., populism) have produced an anti-expert, antimedical and anti-vaccination discourse that is gaining popularity and has substantial negative health impacts on individuals and communities.
At the same time, there is growing scholarly criticism that narrow health solutions, including some pharmaceutical solutions, discourage patients and the general population from embracing an educated, embodied, whole-of life-course approach and socially-grounded understanding of health/wellbeing. Across these two poles, health communication and advocacy face ongoing difficulties in communicating well to groups affected by migration, ageing and socio-economic and welfare vulnerabilities.
This symposium brings together researchers in population health, medical humanities, health sociology, health communication and cultural studies with medical and health practitioners, as well as health policy and advocacy experts to discuss key issues around good health and wellbeing communication in an era in which anti-expert discourses as well as narrow transactional approaches to self-care are clouding important health and mental health communication.
The symposium aims to (a) share current research and best practice knowledge, (b) develop new understandings through dialogue that aid the development of solutions and advocacy approaches, and (c) build new alliances to aid intervention, practice and policy advice in the health and mental health communication sector.

Supported by the WUN, this event is held in conjunction with the WUN Conference and AGM, Perth, Western Australia, 20-25 May. https://wun.ac.uk/article/wun-conference-and-agm-2018.

Further information and queries, please email co-convenor Associate Professor Rob Cover (UWA) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Click here for the event flyer and abstract submission information. 

Reconciliation WA invite you to join us for a transformative experience at Elizabeth Quay. Learn about our First People’s culture, contribution and powerfully engage in our shared history on your Walk for Reconciliation.
We encourage you to bring your colleagues, friends and family to participate in this show of solidarity and commitment to grow the moment of Reconciliation.
Walk for Reconciliation 2018
FRIDAY 1 JUNE
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Elizabeth Quay
(Site map to follow)
Register your interest to attend at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Register online by 5.00pm, Monday 25 June 2018

Anyone with an interest in men’s health and wellbeing is invited to attend. Dates for the regional areas will be released shortly.

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If you have any queries, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone 9222 0200.

Do you have an interest in health and want to contribute towards closing the gap in your community? Health promotion provides a framework to engage and create community orientated health approaches.

The Australian Health Promotion Association (AHPA®) (WA Branch) is conducting a FREE short course that will yarn about health promotion to share knowledge, skills and ideas that will support health promotion within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The course is suitable for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples already working in the health sector, those wanting to move into the area and those wanting to incorporate health promotion principles into their role.

Seeing as it’s July, and it literally feels like it was January about 10 seconds ago, it makes sense that Mental Health Week will be upon us in no time! It’s time to start planning for this year (7-14 October 2018). Mentally Healthy WA is running a FREE webinar on Tuesday 31 July at 11AM (WST), all you need is a computer with an internet connection & speakers.

Please RSVP to Sarah by Friday 27 July and she will provide you with a link and log-in code. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

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.

You will plan a health promotion intervention of your choice. A range of learning strategies and learning activities are available for each module. An online networking forum will be available to communicate with other students and your course tutor. This course has been developed for those already working in the health sector, those wanting to move into this area and those wanting to incorporate health promotion principles into their roles, such as nurses or teachers.

In this information-packed seminar, you’ll hear examples of how behaviour change tools and techniques including social marketing, behavioural design, behavioural theory and digital have been used to address health and social challenges facing governments and civil society. A great line-up of speakers will share their unique insights, tools and advice on how best to influence community behaviours to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals and society.

For more information or to register, visit https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/influencing-community-behaviours-insights-from-the-field-ii-tickets-47206912145  

Keen to join a NFP board but don’t know where to start? Register before 1 September.

Join the next Alyceum Board Ignition online course starting in October - a course designed to fast track your board journey and help you get your first NFP board appointment.

This dynamic course gives you the practical steps to get onto a board and be an outstanding director. It includes video interviews, online workbooks, reflective questions, practical challenges and more. You also get life-time access to the course materials.

For more information or to register, visit https://alyceum.com.au/online-programs/board-ignition-pre-enrol/ 

Nutrition Plus would like to invite you to join us for a night ofdelicious African food to raise funds for our Mum and Bubs Nutrition Centre in Tanzania.

We've teamed up with Compassion, a charity that aims to release children from poverty, to support a facility for pregnant mums-to-be in a community called Mbulu in rural Tanzania.

For more information or to register, visit https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/tanzanian-mums-bubs-nutrition-centre-fundraising-dinner-perth-tickets-47658587117 

WALGA is pleased to present an Information Session on Public Health Planning for Not-for-Profit Health Organisations on Wednesday, 24 October at the WALGA Offices.

The event will focus on key information for health not-for-profits to enable greater understanding of the Public Health Act 2016 and Local Public Health Planning, and will be restricted to not-for-profit organisations.

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/partnerships-and-alliances-to-tackle-complex-public-health-issues-a-vichealth-perspective-tickets-51317703633 

A free public seminar with Professor Kypros Kypri, University of Newcastle

Australia and New Zealand’s Anglo-Celtic colonists brought heavy beer-drinking customs, and each country later developed similar temperance movements and alcohol policies. This seminar will describe a study of the public health implications of recent developments in product availability, marketing, and consumption patterns, and present trend data on the ethanol content of products and how ethanol content might feature within industry market strategies.

The Alcohol Programs Team at the Public Health Advocacy
Institute of WA invite you to a free public seminar with Dr John Holmes from
the University of Sheffield. In this seminar, Dr Holmes will discuss recent
research on the decline in youth drinking and the evidence base for minimum
pricing for alcohol, including its impact on groups of different income and
drinking levels and lessons learnt from policy processes elsewhere, followed by
Q&A.

Do you have an interest in health and human behaviour? Would you like to know more about health promotion? Do you want to be able to develop effective and sustainable health promotion programs?

This Curtin University short course in partnership with the AHPA (WA Branch), will enable you to understand the role and importance of health promotion and the broader concept of health within a community and national setting. Participants will be led through an engaging program using discussion, lectures and group work. Health promotion maintains and improves the health of populations by developing skills and knowledge, working with communities, creating healthy environments, changing policy/laws to support healthy choices, and reorienting health services to meet community needs.