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Master of ceremonies
Jodie Sizer is from the Gunditjmara nation of the South Western districts of Victoria and will be the master of ceremonies at the conference.
Victorian Aboriginal Health Conference 24-25 May 2012
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CONFERENCE REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
For more information contact
Robyn Smith
Project Officer
Victorian Aboriginal health conference 2012
GPO Box 4032, Melbourne 3001
Phone: (03) 9096 7938
The first major conference on Victorian Aboriginal health in Australia is scheduled for 24-25 May 2012 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
Why should you attend?
- To keep up to date with cutting edge national developments in Aboriginal health policy and debate.
- To explore simple ways you can make Aboriginal health your responsibility.
- To understand how making Aboriginal health your responsibility will benefit you and your health service.
- To be inspired by outstanding speakers, entertainers and facilitators
- To learn about Victoria’s vibrant, contemporary, successful and growing Aboriginal population.
Who should attend this conference?
Key decision makers and opinion leaders who have influence in the health sector including those from:
- the Department of Health
- hospitals
- Divisions of General Practice and Medicare Locals
- Community Health Services.
What is the role of the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health sector?
The Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health sector will present their excellent and innovative work during a number of concurrent sessions.
Confirmed facilitators, speakers and entertainers
Keynote speakers
- Jill Gallagher is the CEO Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
- Jason King is CEO of the Gippsland and East Gippsland Cooperative (GEGAC) and Chair of the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO).
- Dr Jeff McMullen AM is a respected Australian journalist, author and film-maker.
- Mick Gooda Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner
- Professor Ian Anderson is the Director of the Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, the Research Director for the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health (CRCAH) and the chair of the National Indigenous Health Equality Council.
- Professor Rob Moodie is the inaugural chair of the Nossal Institute for Global Health.
- Beth Wilson has been Victoria's Health Services Commissioner since 1997.
- Belinda Duarte is currently the inaugural director of Korin Gamadji Institute based at Richmond Football Club in Melbourne.
- Deborah Cheetham is a Yorta Yorta woman and is Australia's treasured Aboriginal soprano singer.
