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CAPHIA is hiring – Membership & Administration Officer

08/09/2022

Membership and Administration Officer

Casual, up to 15 hrs/week
Work from Home

Want to advance academic public health across Australasia? Join our small powerhouse team! Flexible & WFH. This is a wonderful opportunity for a strong administrator seeking flexibility and purpose or a MPH student wanting experience in the industry.

About us

CAPHIA is the peak body for academic public health across Australasia. We advance public health education,

17th World Congress on Public Health Rome, Italy May 2-6 2023

15/08/2022

Special Exhibitor rate for Universities + abstracts open

Theme: “A World in Turmoil: Opportunities to Focus on the Public’s Health“
Date: 2nd – 6th May 2023
Location: Ergife Palace Hotel in Rome, Italy

The World Federation of Public Health (WFPHA), SItI (Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health) and ASPHER (Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region) are delighted to announce that the 17th World Congress on Public Health will be held May 2nd – 6th 2023 in Rome,

Registration Open – Collecting the evidence & impact of your teaching seminar

12/08/2022

Collecting the evidence & impact of your teaching seminar:
1pm – 3pm AEST September 6 2022

The Early Careers Academic Subcommittee (ECAPS) are proud to present the third of four professional development seminars. This webinar builds on the first two, and connects the dots between engagement, assessment and feedback strategies and how to demonstrate teaching impact.

Overview

Purpose: To showcase practical strategies used by more experienced educators to measure the impact of their teaching.

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

11/08/2022

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,

Public Health Jobs Board – August 2022

03/08/2022

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.

2022 CAPHIA Awards – Submissions open August 1st

27/07/2022

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.

Prevalence and characteristics of advocacy curricula in Australian public health degrees

22/07/2022

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.

CAPHIA Competencies Review Curricula Implications

06/06/2022

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.

CAPHIA Competencies Review – Report now available

16/05/2022

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,

Join our Mentoring Reference Group – EOIs now open

04/05/2022

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.