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CAPHIA Strategic Plan 2025 – 2027



CAPHIA Strategic Plan 2025 – 2027

CAPHIA acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and pays respect to Elders past, present, and emerging. In Aotearoa New Zealand, we acknowledge Māori as tāngata whenua and uphold Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Across the Pacific, we honour all Indigenous and First Nations peoples and recognise deep ancestral connections to land, waters, and community.

Building on our Success: CAPHIA Strategy 2025-2027

The CAPHIA Board of Directors are pleased to announce the launch of the CAPHIA Strategy 2025-2027,

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Job Alert! Join the CAPHIA team as our new Coordinator

Join the CAPHIA team: casual CAPHIA Coordinator role available

Position: CAPHIA Coordinator

Hours and Term: Casual, up to 25 hours per week fixed term until June 30th 2026

Location: Virtual / remote / work from home – anywhere in Australia

Remuneration: $38 – 40 per hour, inclusive of casual loading + super + remote working stipend

About the role

The CAPHIA Coordinator is responsible for providing high level support to the Executive Director of the Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia (CAPHIA),

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Join the 2025 Scientific Committee

Join the 2025 Teaching and Learning Forum Scientific Committee

The CAPHIA Teaching and Learning Forum (the Forum) is CAPHIA’s annual flagship event and is designed to facilitate the sharing of best practice in evidence-based public health teaching and learning, and to provide a key networking opportunity for public health researchers and academics to share and transfer knowledge.

The 2025 Teaching and Learning Forum will be hosted by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

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Member Institution Spotlight: Fiji National University

Member Institution Spotlight: Fiji National University
College of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences
School of Public Health & Primary Health Care

Author: Ms Makereta Leweniqila, FNU Bachelor of Public Health Student and CAPHIA Intern 2024

The School of Public Health & Primary Health Care is under the College of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences of Fiji National University. It is situated along Princes Road in Tamavua, and it offers 5 major disciplines of Public Health which includes Health Promotion,

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2024 CAPHIA Annual Report now available

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

  1. 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,
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Heads of Schools Summit 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:

  1. Adjunct Associate Professor Linda Selvey, former CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific
  2. The Hon.
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ECA Blog | Bridging Continents: Teaching Master of Public Health in Bangladesh and Australia

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.

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

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,

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Online Participatory Action Research Seminar: August 30, 2024

Event Details

  • Friday August 30th 2pm – 3:30pm
  • Online – zoom and calendar invitation sent once registered by emailing meredith.tavener@newcastle.edu.au
  • 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.

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