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Lecturer or Senior Lecturer, Indigenous Health and Wellbeing (Identified position)
Where Passion Meets Impact – Join the School of Health at the University of Sunshine Coast!

  • 493648
  • UniSC Caboolture, QLD, Australia, 4510
  • 90 Sippy Downs Drive, UniSC Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia, 4556
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Debunking the Myth: Operationalising One Health through CAPHIA Core Competencies

ECA Blog, Early Career Academics

Debunking the Myth: Operationalising One Health through CAPHIA Core Competencies

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Dr Md Saiful Islam
School of Population Health, University of NSW, and
Dr Heena Akbar
School of Public Health, University of Queensland

When I introduce myself as a One Health researcher, the first question I am often asked is – “What is One Health?” After a brief explanation, many respond- “Oh- you mean system thinking,

Have your say on the CAPHIA Position Statement on Climate Change and Public Health Education at Forum

Advocacy, Forum

Have your say on the CAPHIA Position Statement on Climate Change and Public Health Education at Forum

The CAPHIA Public Health Education Network (CPHEN) will host a Solution Room at Forum — an open, collaborative space to gather feedback on the draft Position Statement on Climate Change and Public Health Education.

Thursday 6 November, 2:45pm in Breakout Room 1.

This is your opportunity to help shape a statement that will guide how public health education responds to the growing challenges of climate change.

If You Lose Us: The Threatened Future for Public Health Education

ECA Blog, Advocacy, Early Career Academics

If You Lose Us: The Threatened Future for Public Health Education

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At our September Early Career Academic Catch-Up Café (eve of World Environmental Day), we gathered to discuss teaching climate change amidst worsening environmental conditions, global geopolitical tensions, and increasing instability in public health. Our concerns are further weighted by the recent news from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), where the School of Public Health and Education is being dismantled. 

CAPHIA Board Director Election 2025 – Voting CLOSED

CAPHIA Governance

CAPHIA Board of Directors Election 2025: Voting now CLOSED

The Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia (CAPHIA) are inviting Full CAPHIA Members to cast their votes for TWO (2) Board Directors vacancies.

Voting Rules

  1. All current financial Full Member institutions of CAPHIA are eligible to vote for those nominated for the CAPHIA Board of Directors
  2. The Head of School, CAPHIA representative or their nominated delegate may cast the vote.

CAPHIA warns against dismantling Public Health at UTS

Advocacy, News, Teaching

Media Release:
CAPHIA warns against dismantling Public Health at UTS

September 18, 2025

The Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia (CAPHIA), representing university schools and departments of public health across Australia, Aoteroa New Zealand and the Pacific, expresses deep concern regarding the proposal by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) to disestablish its School of Public Health.

Public health is a foundational discipline that underpins the health, wellbeing,

ECA Blog | When the Classroom Gets Heavy: Finding Hope Amid Crisis

Early Career Academics, ECA Blog

When the Classroom Gets Heavy: Finding Hope Amid Crisis

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Dr Connie Gan
Griffith Institute for Human and Environmental Resilience (GIHER)
School of Medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University

Walking out after watching the documentary “Corals’ Last Stand” and conversations with frontline activists, I felt my heart sink with a mix of emotions. Ongoing proposals to continue destructive practices like seismic blasting, gas flaring,

Hackathon Registrations are now open!

Teaching, For Students

Registration is now open for the CAPHIA Public Health Hackathon: Reducing Vaping Harms in Young People.

CAPHIA and The School of Public Health, University of Technology Sydney will bring together students, early career academics, entrepreneurs, community, and industry innovators to investigate a public health problem.

Register here, or get more information here.