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 – Vote Now!

CAPHIA Governance

CAPHIA Board of Directors Election 2025: Voting now open

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.

ECA Blog | Educating in Real Time: How to Stay Up to Date in a Dynamic Policy Environment

ECA Blog

Educating in Real Time: How to Stay Up to Date in a Dynamic Policy Environment.

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Holly Wild

As educators in public health, we are all too familiar with how unwieldy the field can be to teach. There are no neat, linear career pathways, no black-and-white answers, and not even a universally agreed-upon definition. While this ambiguity can feel overwhelming at first, students often come to appreciate the vast grey areas of public health.

ECA Blog | One Year As An Indigenous Early Career Researcher

ECA Blog

One Year As An Indigenous Early Career Researcher.

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Sharna Motlap

NAIDOC Week 2025 marks a powerful 50-year milestone of honouring and elevating Indigenous voices, culture, and resilience, its theme, “The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy,” resonates deeply with my personal journey. 

The journey into academia, particularly as an Indigenous researcher, is paved with unique challenges and rewards. As I reflect on my first year as an Early Career Research Fellow (ECMR),