Day 2 - Tuesday

DAY 2 - Right to Health Download printable PDF version (128KB)
8:00 Registration opens
Foyer on Level 1
7:45 Sunrise sessions and breakfast
Foyer Level 1
      Young people and sexual health Medicines and diagnostic issues for CALD communities Problem gambling: innovative service models
         
      Young Cambodians take the challenge of HIV/AIDS to their community
Wa'el Sabri

Responding to the sexual health needs of refugee youth
Soulmaz Rostami

An exploration of the sexual health needs of Somali women in a London borough
Sima Barmania

Sister2Sister: Talking sxual health with young African women
Chiedza Malunga
The National Prescribing Service and FECCA invite you to discuss medicines issues, health promotion models, evaluation techniques and issues for CALD communities in accessing and using diagnostic services.

Shapes of therapy
Goran Jovanov
Many ways to open doors: gambling counselling services for diverse populations in NSW
Ranya Yacou

Reflections and learnings from working with refugee communities on problem gambling
Mary Gavranic  

         
9:00

What does the 'right to health' mean?


Does Australia need a right to health or is a universal health system enough?

Panellists: Monica Pfeffer (ANZSOG), Paris Aristotle (Foundation House), Graeme Innes (Australian Human Rights Commission), Cath Smith (Victorian Council of Social Service), Rod Jackson (Victorian Aboriginal Health Service)

Moderator:
Hass Dellal (Australian Multicultural Foundation)

10:00

Keynote: Health literacy and health rights


Over 60% of Australians are functionally health illiterate. Sharon E. Barrett (US), authors of several reports on health literacy, discusses the connections between health literacy, informed choice and patient rights.

Speaker: Sharon E. Barrett (Association of Clinicians for the Underserved)

10:30 Morning Tea
10:50

Hypothetical: A world without interpreters

We take you to the year 2020, where all funding for interpreting and translating servies has just been cancelled. What risks are healthcare providers now exposed to? Can bilingual workers mitigate these risks?

Keynote: Professor Michael Clyne

Panellists: Sharon E. Barrett (US), Ari Pappas (ONCALL Interpreting & Translating Agency), Karella De Jongh (St Vincents Hospital), Demos Krouskos (CEH)

Facilitator: Maria Dimopoulos (MyriaD Consultants)

Sponsor: ONCALL

Refugee health and wellbeing

Each year more than 13,750 people from refugee backgrounds settle in Australia. How do they interact with the Australian health system?

Speakers: Dr Victoria Achut, Paris Aristotle AM (Foundation House)


Multicultural mental health

From the personal to the political, we discuss service models, research and interventions that can increase mental wellbeing and enhance the recovery of people from CALD backgrounds with a mental illness.

Speakers: Kaliope Paxinos (carer and advocate), Professor Diego De Leo (Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention), Colleen Krestensen (Department of Health and Ageing), Professor Harry Minas (Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit)

Sponsor: MMHA

Marketing health in a multicultural country

In a multilingual and multicultural society, is it possible to create a campaign that resonates with everyone? A panel of advertisign and marketing experts debate ways to make health messages accessible to diverse audiences.

Panellists: Barry Robinson (Activist Advertising), Faye Spiteri (Cultural perspectives), Peter Todaro (Multicultural Health Communication Service)

Facilitator: Brett de Hoedt (Hootville Communications)

12:20  Lunch (Foyer Level 1)
13:10 Building a bilingual workforce

Sponsor: ONCALL

The multicultural mental health landscape

Sponsor: MMHA

 FGM Cultural competence in theory and practice
Refugee perceptions of health and health services The family carer Right to health
Innovation in community education
Social marketing tools and techniques
  An emerging workforce: multicultural health workers
Genevieve Hargrave

Bilingual staff at The Women's
Bridget O'Brien

Training bilingual staff for health and community services
Rachel Wilson

Bilingual staff - issues of definition, recruitment and good practice
Spase Veljanovski
The multicultural mental health landscape in Australia
Georgia Zogalis

The role of community-based mental health services in meeting the needs of people from CALD backgrounds
Deborah Winkler

Exclusive care - the mental health experience
David Crosbie
Australia's approach to FGM - a 20-year journey
Juliana Nkrumah

Why is FGM treated as a separate issue from mainstream sexual health?
Claire Naffah

Awareness raising on female genital mutilation based on Western Australian FGM education programs
Martha Teshome
The challenge of maintaining good practice - a 'culturally responsive' health service perspective
Lena Dimopoulos

A whole-of-organisation commitment is required ...
Jaklina Michael

Issues and challenges of cultural diversity in health care systems
Gurjeet Gill

Cultural integrity at the coalface
Ini Gaha
The dynamicity of resettlement
Ignacio Correa-Velez

Stepping out of the shadows in the Goulburn Valley
Angela Devoti

Understanding the mental health and wellbeing of Afghan women in South East Melbourne
Angela Rintoul

Understanding the experiences of recently arrived refugees in accessing primary health care
Donata Sackey

The family carer

Young people with care responsibilities - what are the impacts and how can we help?
Alice Morgan

Negotiating the maze of concerns in refugee families
Jenny Mitchell

Carers in rural communities
Joyce Rebeiro 

A human rights approach to mental health will reduce barriers to accessible care
Helen Szoke

Still catching up ...why have we still not arrived at a healthcare system responsive to diversity?
Tanja Bahro

Health and cultural rights in children's health care
Cathy O'Callaghan
You can do I can do - diversity and disability
Nikki Marshall

Understanding the barriers and enablers to seeking emergency medical care for Acute Coronary Syndrome
Christopher Poulter

Diverse communities, diverse approaches: more effective health promotion on chronic illness
Steve Francis
Sending the right message: use and access of ICT
Ben O'Mara

How to fit messages on raising kids with disability, culture and refugee issues in a 20-minute DVD
Michael Camit

A cancer screening communications strategy for CALD women
Scott Walsberger
14:10 Language service workforce quality

Sponsor: ONCALL

Mental health: public health

Sponsor: MMHA

Suicide prevention Cultural integrity in assessment, care and management Refugee young people and transitions Training for structural change Health literacy

Sponsor: National Prescribing Service
Innovation in community education (cont'd)

Reducing the stigma of mental illness

Sponsor: MMHA

 

NAATI Paraprofessional Preparatory Support Project
Debbie Ellam & Therese Morris


Ethical challenges for healthcare interpreters in the new era
Vesna Boglev

Training healthcare interpreters
Leah Bramhill

Practical diagnostic tools for cross-cultural mental health
Jill Benson

A tool for enhancing cultural integrity in the delivery of mental health services
Joyce Broughton

Cultural diversity in psychotherapeutic treatment
Jogmohan Gilhotra
Suicidality in CALD communities living in Australia
Maria Cassaniti

Helping to understand suicidal behaviour within CALD communities
Helen Jevons

Suicide in first-generation migrants in Australia: 1976-2006
Naoko Ide
Experiences of chronic care management from diverse communities
Lisa Hodgson

The Cultural Key Phrases Tool in initial dysphagia assessment
Courtney Pocock

Continence in ethnic communities
Deborah Manning
What works and what does not work in providing effective mental health services to young people from refugee backgrounds
Erminia Colucci

Refugee School Health Program
Chelsea Taylor

Refugee background young people and schools
Jane Grant
Skilling Queensland Health staff in working cross-culturally
Gail Hyslop

Developing cultural integrity in health care service delivery through e-learning
Lisa Woodland and Scott Brunero

Culture in practice: Post-graduate nursing courses in the NT
Robyn Williams
The garden snail ambulates with tardiness...
Libby Matheson

The Avatar experience in health care delivery
Magda Ziadeh

Effectively delivering health information to refugee communities
Zhihong Gu

Culturally competent health literacy with newly-arrived African communities
Lara Williamson
Beyond maturity blues - talking about depression in everybody's language
Debra Petrys

The WHICH and the white woman
Regina Quiazon

Supporting community leaders - a strategy for enhancing the wellbeing of refugee communities
Robin Gregory

A bilingual peer educator model to promote healthy eating in newly arrived communities
Rita Alvaro & Hassenet Younis
Multicultural Information Online (MIDonline)
Isabelle Bauer

Reducing mental illness stigma to encourage social inclusion
Melissa Elston

Stepping out of the shadows
Rajiv Ramanathan
15:10 Afternoon Tea  (Foyer Level 1)
15:30

Hypothetical : eHealth and the future

How will eHealth work for disadvantage? Is it a tool for greater inclusion or greater exclusion?

Panellists: Dr Mukesh Haikerwal (National e-Health Transition Authority), Beth Wilson (Health Services Commissioner Victoria), Sharon E. Barrett (Association of Clinicians for the Underserved), George Margelis (Intel Auystralia Digital Health Group), Professor Steven Boyages (Sydney West Area Health Service)

Facilitator: Simon Curry (Gailbraith & Co.)

17:00 Rapporteur 
17:10 End of Day Two
19:00 Conference Dinner