Policy Process

The Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) is committed to promoting the health of the public as well as serving as a professional resource for public health personnel. To do so, PHAA develops evidence based policy options and advocates for these with appropriate bodies, in particular with governments at all levels.

The Public Health Association of Australia?s Policy Development Process can be obtained via the link below.

Administrative Protocol ? PHAA Policy Development Process (PDF)

Human Rights Framework in Policy Development

In 2006 VicHealth provided funding for the Human Rights and Bioethics Unit of the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University to undertake human rights capaity building programmes. The document below is one of the outcomes of this work.

PHAA places this document on its website in order that its members and others use the information as is appropriate for their purposes and consider its content when developing policy and advocacy initiatives.

A Human Rights Based Approach to the Public Health Association of Australia?s Policy Statements (PDF)

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