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CAPHIA Board Director Election 2025 – Voting CLOSED

01/10/2025

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

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

CAPHIA Training & Learning Forum full program now available!

24/09/2025

The full program for the 2025 CAPHIA Training & Learning Forum is now live! Explore the sessions, speakers, and events that await you in Sydney this November.

CAPHIA warns against dismantling Public Health at UTS

18/09/2025

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,

CAPHIA Competencies Renewal Project Update September 2025

16/09/2025

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 14 institutions across four countries took the majority of 2024. As this is the first Public Health Australasian competency framework,

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

12/09/2025

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,

Applications for the 2025 Hackathon Travel Bursaries program are now open!

01/09/2025

The 2025 CAPHIA Public Health Student Hackathon will be held on 4–6 November 2025 on Gadigal Land in Sydney at the University of Technology Sydney. CAPHIA is offering travel bursaries to support students for whom financial barriers might otherwise prevent their participation.

More information here. Make an application here.

Hackathon Registrations are now open!

01/09/2025

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.

CAPHIA Board of Directors – Nominations open for 2 x vacancies

01/09/2025

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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UC Public Health Advocacy short course

26/08/2025

UC Public Health Advocacy short course
Learn to influence health policy with confidence

Course Postponement – New Timetable below
Due to a range of circumstances, the University of Canberra wishes to advise a change of dates to the 2025 Public Health Advocacy Short Course. The Course is scheduled for 4-6, 11- 13 and 18-19 November, 2025. Registration is still open. Please see below for details.

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

04/08/2025

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.