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Impact of the use of the Red Lotus Critical Health Promotion Model as a pedagogical framework on health promotion graduates’ professional practice: A mixed methods study

Impact of the use of the Red Lotus Critical Health Promotion Model as a pedagogical framework on health promotion graduates’ professional practice: A mixed methods study

O’Hara, L & Taylor, J. Health Promot J Austr. 2022; Online; doi:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hpja.642

Training health promotion graduates involves developing health promotion specific competencies, including knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for professional health promotion practice.1

The Red Lotus Critical Health Promotion Model (RLCHPM) is designed to support critical health promotion practice,

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Public Health Jobs Board – August 2022

Academic Public Health Jobs at CAPHIA Member Institutions

Lecturer, Population & Preventative Health Domain

Level A Level A (if appointee is an AFPHM trainee or junior academic) or Level B
Part-time (0.5), Continuing appointment

The position is responsible for assisting the Chair of the Population and Preventative Health (PPH) Domain in reviewing and delivering the PPH components of the medical curriculum. This position is accredited as an advanced training position by the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine.

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2022 CAPHIA Awards – Submissions open August 1st

2022 CAPHIA Awards

Prof Janaki Amin & A Prof Basia Diug

On behalf of a Academic Development Working Group we are thrilled to share further details about the 2022 CAPHIA Awards.

The CAPHIA awards recognises, celebrates and promotes innovation and excellence in public health teaching within Australasia. The award for the very best and brightest educators serves to encourage and inspire the many generations to come and uplift the quality of public health education.

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Prevalence and characteristics of advocacy curricula in Australian public health degrees

Prevalence and characteristics of advocacy curricula in Australian public health degrees

Bhatti AJ, Lin S, Post D, Baldock K, Dawes N. Health Promot J Austr. 2022; Online; doi: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/hpja.634

Public health graduates are expected to have knowledge and skills in advocacy, with Australian and international competency frameworks indicating advocacy curriculum should be included in all degrees1-3. Despite this, knowledge of the extent to which students are taught public health advocacy is limited.

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CAPHIA Competencies Review Curricula Implications

Mapping competency frameworks: implications for public health curricula design

Coombe L, Severinsen C, Robinson P.  Aust NZ J Public Health. 2022; Online; doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.13253

We undertook a global analysis of public health competency sets (Coombe, et al. 2020), mapped against the Global Charter for the Public’s Health (Lomazzi, 2016) , which is endorsed by the WHO. The Global Charter is a key document which sets out the services and functions of public health.

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CAPHIA Competencies Review – Report now available

Review of the Australasian Public Health Competencies
Scope of the Review

The Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia (CAPHIA) is the peak organisation currently representing tertiary teaching institutions and other education providers throughout Australasia, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. CAPHIA seeks to maintain and protect high public health academic standards.

Local public health competencies are built in part around the 2016 Foundation Competencies for Public Health Graduates in Australia,

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Join our Mentoring Reference Group – EOIs now open


Mentoring Reference Group

Having successfully run a CAPHIA mentoring program for a number of years we are now establishing a Mentoring Reference Group to guide the maturation of this highly valued offering. Representatives from member institutions are warmly invited to express their interest in establishing this new Reference Group. The Mentoring Reference Group is chaired by Dr Julie Saunders from University of Western Australia and we are seeking approximately 6 individuals.

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Join our Advocacy in Action Consultation Group: EOIs open

Advocacy in Action Consultation Group – EOI

The Advocacy in Action Consultation Group are seeking 4-6 highly-energetic individuals to build the evidence based around academic public health and advocate for public health education throughout Australasia.

What’s involved?

  • Meeting virtually (email and zoom every 6 weeks or so);
  • Contributing to position papers, submissions, literature reviews, letters to the editor, project proposals and more;
  • Scoping and contributing to a range of research and evaluation activities to capture and promote the CAPHIA member voice.
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2022 Teaching & Learning Forum – Abstract Submission Deadline now 12th May 2022

Mark your calendars! The 2022 CAPHIA Teaching and Learning Forum Steering Group are pleased to announce details this year’s Forum: “Public Health Education: Challenges, Opportunities & Solutions”.

Abstracts are due 9am Thursday 12th May 2022.
Get the abstract template.

We are calling for abstracts for the following types:

Oral Presentations

  • 7 mins presentation + 5 mins question time
  • Describe and inform others about your scholarship of teaching and learning or innovative practice.
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