” Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation leaders and health experts from across Australia will come together in Canberra today to examine key policy issues and projects that are making a difference in closing the gap in Indigenous health.
The theme of the conference is Our Health Counts: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow.
NACCHO would like to acknowledge that we will be gathering on the traditional Ngunnawal and Ngambri lands and acknowledge owner’s past, present and future “
Download the full conference program here https://www.nacchoconference.com.au/program/
Social Media
Follow on Twitter: #NACCHOagm2017 @NACCHOAustralia
Facebook : A limited number of sessions and interviews will be broadcast via our FACEBOOK Page @NacchoAboriginalHealth
National Media Contact: Jenny Stokes 0478 504 280
NACCHO Social Media: Colin Cowell 0401 331 251
NACCHO Contact at Conference: Oliver Tye 0450 956 942
9.00 – 9.20 am
Matilda House Welcome to Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country,
9.20 – 9.30 am
Welcoming Address to open the 2017
NACCHO Conference Our Health counts:
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Speaker:
9.30 – 9.50 am
Secretary of the Department of Health @healthgovau
Speaker: Glenys Beauchamp PSM
9.50 – 10.15 am
Topic: Enhanced Multijurisdictional response to STI and Blood Borne Viruses in Indigenous Communities
Speaker: Professor Brendan Murphy
10.15 – 10.30 am
NACCHO CEO Pat turner and David Quilty of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia @PharmGuildAus
MoU joint signing: Improving access to medicine for Indigenous Australians.
10.30 – 10.50 am
Topic: Mayi Kuwayu: a national study of culture and wellbeing among Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander peoples
Speaker: Dr Ray Lovett @ANU_NCIS @Mayi_Kuwayu
11.15 – 11.45 am
ACCHS role in advocacy
Speaker: Danila Dilba CEO Olga Havnen @DanilaDilba
11.45 am – 12.05 pm
Topic: #Earl Health for Life
Speaker: Associate Professor Kelvin Kong Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS)
And Dr Matthew Brown deadly Ears Program at Children’s Health Queensland @KelvinKongENT
12.05 – 12.30 pm
Topic: remote region challenges
Speaker: Sandy Davies @SandyDavies8
11.15 – 11.45 am
FASD Prevention in local communities
Speaker: Dr James Fitzpatrick
1.40 – 2.00 pm
National guide to a preventive health assessment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
(3rd edition) NACCHO in partnership with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) @RACGP
Speaker: Associate Professor Sophia Couzos
1.40-2.30pm
Topic: Yarning Circle NACCHO Governance explained with a Q&A session
Speaker: Pat Turner assisted by Kate Gumley
Full details of days activities
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