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

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. 

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Job: USC Lecturer or Senior Lecturer, Indigenous Health and Wellbeing (Identified position)

Job: University of Sunshine Coast
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!

  • UniSC Caboolture, QLD, Australia, 4510
  • 90 Sippy Downs Drive, UniSC Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia, 4556
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
  • LC $140,415 – $161,809 +17% super
  • School of Health
  • Full-Time


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  • School of Health | UniSC Sunshine Coast,
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CAPHIA Board Director Election 2025 – Vote Now!

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.
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CAPHIA warns against dismantling Public Health at UTS

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,

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CAPHIA Competencies Renewal Project Update September 2025

CAPHIA Competencies Renewal Project Update September 2025

The CAPHIA Competencies Renewal Project is progressing through a collaborative, inclusive, and evidence-informed process to ensure Australia’s public health education framework remains contemporary and fit-for-purpose.

Current Status
What have we done so far?

  • Set up: establishing robust governance and obtaining approval from 10 institutions across four countries took the majority of 2024. As this is the first Public Health Australasian competency framework,
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ECA Blog | When the Classroom Gets Heavy: Finding Hope Amid Crisis

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,

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Hackathon Registrations are now open!

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.

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CAPHIA Board of Directors – Nominations open for 2 x vacancies

CAPHIA Board Vacancies – Elected Directors
The Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia (CAPHIA) is seeking nominations for two (2) Board Directors to be elected by Members. We are inviting Full Members to nominate candidates for these roles.

Nominations for Elected Director candidates must:

  • Include all required information requested into this EOI form; and
  • Be lodged by midnight Tuesday 30th September 2025.

Please note that a Full Member Institution may only nominate one candidate for election.

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