Events | The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre

PreventionWorks LIVE with Distinguished Professor Billie Giles-Corti

11 March 2021: Our first #PreventionWorksLIVE masterclass featuring Distinguished Professor Billie Giles-Corti will focus on how to achieve impact and create change for healthier liveable cities. The session will be co-facilitated by Prevention Centre Co-Director Professor Lucie Rychetnik and Associate Professor Melody Ding from the University of Sydney.

World Obesity Day Event

4 March 2021, 12pm-1:30pm AEDT: The Obesity Collective is hosting a 90 minute virtual event with expert speakers from across the country. We will explore many different aspects of obesity with a series of ‘rapid talks’ highlighting new and compelling ideas.

Inferior by UNSW Centre for Ideas

8 March 2021: British science journalist and author, Angela Saini, joins leading cancer researcher and founder of the STEMMinist Book club, Caroline Ford for a conversation about bias in science, medicine and the public understanding of gender, and how to build a more accurate picture of human difference.

Salt Wars: Using Policy and the Law to Reduce Salt Intake

10 March 2021: Join Dr. Michael F. Jacobson, Senior Scientist and former Executive Director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington D.C. for this #GeorgeTalks event to mark World Salt Awareness Week.

Evidence and Implementation Summit 2021

30-31 March 2021, Sydney: EIS will focus on the intersection of research, policy and practice and aims to share advances in the fields of evidence synthesis and translation, evaluation and implementation science, as well as to debate their impact on policies and programs and their capacity to change the lives of people and communities for the better.

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Eye Health Conference (NATSIEHC) 2021: The Gap and Beyond

20-22 April 2021: This conference aims to advance the collective work of the Indigenous eye health sector towards the shared goal of improving eye health access and outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

PHAA Preventive Health Conference 2021

10-12 May 2021, Perth and online: The Public Health Association of Australia's (PHAA) Preventive Health Conference will be held as a hybrid event, online and face to face, and include national experts presenting various aspects of this rapidly moving and exciting era of preventive health. The conference will focus on cross-sector, multilevel interventions to build a healthier Australia through preventive health.

Rural and Remote Health Scientific Symposium

24-25 May 2021, Alice Springs: This symposium will bring together rural and remote health researchers, policy makers, as well as the government and non-government sectors to shape the future of rural and remote health research.