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Western Australian Branch

Committee Details

Acting President:  Mike Daube
Past WA Branch President Peter Howat [ email ]

Vice President: Melissa Stoneham [ email ]
Secretary: Jonine Jancey
Treasurer: Ginny Monteiro

General Committee Member: Dianne Katscherian
General Committee Member: Laura Bond
General Committee Member: Jonine Jancey
General Committee Member: Peter Howat
General Committee Member: Louise Stewart
General Committee Member: Myra Robinson
General Committee Member: Ginny Monteiro
General Committee Member: Holly Scott
General Committee Member: Emma Croager
General Committee Member: Satvinder Dhaliwal


Branch Events 2010

PHAA WA Branch 2010 State Conference
The Western Australian Branch of the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) invites members and the wider public health community to the 2010 conference

Global Issues, Local Solutions - Thinking outside the box

Call for Papers - Abstracts due 30 June 2010

Speakers

Registration Form


Sponsorship Package and Proposal
18-19 November 2010

Branch Awards 2010

Post Graduate Student Award 2010

Indigenous Health Award 2010

Early Career Award 2010

Community Award 2010

Capacity Building Grants - 2010 Funded Scholarships Available
PHAA and Healthway are pleased to announce capacity building grants to enable Indigenous practitioners in country and remote areas to attend the PHAA (WA) State Conference
Click on the links below for more information and Application form


http://www.phaa.net.au/documents/WACapacityBuildingGrantsflyer.pdf

http://www.phaa.net.au/documents/WACapacityBuilding GrantApplication.pdf
 

Branch News and Meetings

WA Branch Newsletter January 2010
WA Branch Annual Report 2008/2009 Sept 2009
WA Branch Newsletter July 2009
WA Branch Annual Report 2008 click here
October 2008
WA Branch AGM Tuesday 28 October 2008 click here
Nomination Form for Executive Positions click here
October 2008
WA Branch Newsletter (PDF) December 2007
WA Branch Newsletter (PDF) June 2007
WA Branch Newsletter (PDF) Dec 2006
WA Branch Newsletter (PDF) June 2006

Branch Awards

PHAA WA Branch Community Award 2009
Click here for Guidelines and Nomination Form
PHAA WA Branch Early Career Award 2009
Click here for Guidelines and Nomination Form
PHAA WA Branch Indigenous Health Award 2009
Click here for Guidelines and Nomination Form
PHAA WA Branch Post Graduate Student Award 2009
Click here for Guidelines and Nomination Form

Branch Events 2009

 "Improving Indigenous health: what can we do?" A presentation by Lt General John Sanderson
   8th September 2009.
Click this link for the flyer

 "Uranium Mining: What are the health risks for WA?" (pdf)


Links

Public Health Advocacy Institute of Western Australia (PHAIWA
http://www.phaiwa.org.au

Branch Forums

The WA Branch Forum provides an area for WA PHAA members to post information, respond to and discuss various articles of interest and to interact with fellow members.

Link to Forums (you will be required to login to access this area)

Advocacy Targets

The PHAA (WA) listed a range of advocacy targets in the last newsletter and asked for feedback from members about your priorities and any identified gaps. Thanks to those members who responded and your comments were incorporated. That list of advocacy issues has since been subject to a priority setting process where the following criteria were used to narrow down the issues for action:

  • Public health importance of the issue
  • Whether it was locally relevant
  • Whether it was amenable to change or intervention in the next 12-24 months
  • Whether it would be a duplication of others efforts
  • If it gives an opportunity to promote the PHAA

The outcome from this process was the identification of 5 priority areas for advocacy, being:

  • Childhood and adolescent obesity (environmental factors, physical activity and nutrition, breastfeeding, soft drinks
  • Health Act lobbying-use of health impact assessments
  • Land use planning and impact on public health
  • Increasing spending on public health and public health research in WA and nationally; promoting public health as a priority
  • Health inequalities

This list will not preclude us from addressing other advocacy issues either now or as the need arises throughout the year, and we will of course continue to support action in other areas through the rest of our work. The list does, however, recognize that we cannot cover all advocacy issues at once, so will give us some direction for our advocacy work over the next 1-2 years. We will also ensure that we maintain a focus on the nationally agreed priority areas.

The next stage of the process will be to develop the rationale for addressing each issue, then link this with existing national policies and develop targets and action plans. Members of the Branch Committee will take responsibility for leading action in each of these areas.

If you would like to contribute on any of these issues, please contact Melissa Stoneham.

Articles of Interest:

Letter of Support for WHO Collaborating Centre on Environmental Health Impact Assessment on the Biofuels Taskforce (PDF) May 2006

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