We are pleased to announce that the CAPHIA AGM will be held at Parliament House, Canberra on 23 October 2018. We are planning to meet with a range of politicians and policy makers. For more information see the CAPHIA Events page.
Following the success of the CAPHIA Mentoring Pilot Program, CAPHIA is pleased to run another mentoring program in 2018. The new program will be open to public health academics at all career stages, either as mentors or mentees.
If you’re interested in participating as either a mentor or mentee, please see more information at the CAPHIA Mentoring Program 2018 page.
Statement on Foundation for a Smoke Free World
The Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia (CAPHIA), the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA), and the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) note with concern the announcement that Philip Morris International plans to contribute nearly $1 billion to a not-for-profit organisation known as Foundation for a Smoke Free World.
We will not accept any kind of funding or support from Foundation for a Smoke Free World, nor will we work together with this Foundation on any research, advocacy, or other projects. We encourage and expect our members and member institutions not to accept any funding or support from the tobacco industry, directly or indirectly, including through non-profit organisations such as Foundation for a Smoke Free World.
To collaborate with or accept support from the tobacco industry would be to abandon our ethical obligations to promote the public’s health and would seriously undermine the integrity of public health academia.