CAPHIA News • Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia

2024 CAPHIA Annual Report now available

12/11/2024

FY23-24 Annual Report now available
Highlight of FY23-24
Professor Rebecca Ivers AM, CAPHIA Chair of the Board of Directors

Professional Development & events

Awarded 8 paid internships from over 200 applications across 7 institutions in Australia and Fiji
Hosted the 2023 Teaching & Learning Forum in Adelaide with 135+ attendees, featuring international speakers and oral presentations, challenge rooms and solution rooms
Organized the 2023 Heads of Schools Summit with 40+ leaders,

Heads of Schools Summit 2024

25/09/2024

CAPHIA Heads of Schools Summit 2024

CAPHIA hosted the first in person Heads of Schools Summit for many years at the Saint Lucia Campus at the University of Queensland on September 25th 2024.

Fifty Heads of Schools and senior representatives came together for to explore the future of public health education.

Keynote Speakers included:

Adjunct Associate Professor Linda Selvey, former CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific
The Hon.

ECA Blog | Bridging Continents: Teaching Master of Public Health in Bangladesh and Australia

29/08/2024

Bridging Continents: Teaching Master of Public Health in Bangladesh and Australia
Dr Sheikh Mohammad Alif

Teaching the Master of Public Health (MPH) courses in two vastly different contexts, Bangladesh and Australia, has been a transformative work experience for me over the past decade. With five years of MPH teaching in Bangladesh, followed by over five years in Australia, I have encountered unique challenges and insights that have deeply informed my classroom approach to public health education.

ECA Blog | Don’t forget to stop and smell the roses

29/08/2024

Don’t forget to stop and smell the roses.
Dr Nathan Dawes

Starting out as an early career academic was both exciting and challenging, a journey that, looking back, I realise could have been much smoother with a few key insights. When I first transitioned from a decade-long career as a clinician to an academic, I approached it with an intense determination and a detailed roadmap. I had mapped out timeframes for every milestone: the completion of my PhD,

Online Participatory Action Research Seminar: August 30, 2024

09/08/2024

Event Details

Friday August 30th 2pm – 3:30pm
Online – zoom and calendar invitation sent once registered by emailing
This is a member only event. Registration is open to all academics and current students of CAPHIA’s member institutions

Session Information

Long term collaborators Lyn Phillipson and Louisa Smith reflect on both their successes and mistakes in engaging a diverse range of stakeholders in Participatory Action research to promote health and wellbeing.

TIPH Global Grant Spotlight | New Podcast: Public Health Insiders

29/07/2024

New Podcast: Public Health Insiders
SPOTLIGHT: Global Network for Academic Public Health – This Is Public Health Global Grant Program 2023-2024

A new podcast from the Monash School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine aims to demystify public health career pathways through interviews with people working in a range of roles across the field. Season 1 has just launched, and features interviews with people working in research, academia, policy, organisational leadership, health promotion, and communications.

EOI | Join the Biostatistics Educational Excellence in Public Health (BEEPH) Network

26/07/2024

Call for Expressions of Interest to join the Biostatistics Educational Excellence in Public Health (BEEPH) Network
Message from the co-chairs Dr Erin Cvejic and Ms Katrina Blazek

We have recently launched the Biostatistics Educational Excellence in Public Health (BEEPH) Network as a CAPHIA network, and are seeking expressions of interest to join from individuals involved in teaching Biostatistics in a public health context at CAPHIA member institutions. We hope that this network will provide a forum for educators to share ideas,

Competencies Renewal Project Update | July 2024

26/07/2024

Competencies Renewal Project
Developing the knowledge, skills and attributes to educate the public health workforce

Project Update July 2024

We are pleased to announce that initial ethics approval has been received from the James Cook University Ethics Committee for the Competencies Renewal Project. Several steering committee co-investigators have received approval at their respective institutions while others are in progress. In the meantime, the Steering Committee continues work on developing an engagement strategy which will inform data collection,

EOI | 2 x reps to attend Public Health Diplomacy Workshop in Memphis TN USA

26/07/2024

Call for Expressions of Interest: Public Health Diplomacy Lab in Memphis, USA

We are pleased to call for expressions of interest (EOIs) for 2 x CAPHIA representatives to participate in a 3-day workshop with the goal of identifying competencies and curricular resources on public health diplomacy. **Travel funds paid**

The University of Memphis, School of Public Health is launching a Public Health Diplomacy Lab —the first of its kind in the country—as it joins an international alliance of institutions dedicated to protecting human rights,

ECA Blog | Failures – I’ve had a few

18/07/2024

Failures, I’ve had a few
Senior Academic Perspective
ECA Blog: July 2024
Professor Richard Franklin
Disipline of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University

It is not easy to write about your failures, let alone make them public. However, I believe that for every failure I have had (and there have been a few), I have learnt and grown, both as a person and an academic.