Following on from last week’s refugee stories, MHSS would like to share two more stories from our community members from migrant backgrounds with similar experiences. The stories highlight some on the issues that people face on arrival and can support us all to...
Refugee Week aims to highlight aspects of the refugee experience and help the broader community to understand what it is like to be a refugee. It kicked off Sunday the 14th of June and concludes with World Refugee Day on Saturday June 20. This year will be the first...
COVID-19 and international students CEH’s International Student Sexual Health Network (ISSHN ) is an Australian wide network, established by the Multicultural Health & Support Service (MHSS) in 2015 for professionals working in the field who are addressing issues...
This resource has been moved into the CEH Resource Hub and can be accessed here. In partnership with the Summer Foundation, CEH has developed three training videos to support workers in the disability sector to communicate with people of cultural and linguistically...
Like-minded people working towards improving the sexual health of their own communities. This National Volunteer Week (NVW), we would like to say a HUGE thank you to all our volunteers who generously give their time, energy, and compassion to working with the...
“I met my husband in high school in Pakistan and moved to Australia to be with him in 2016. I was a practising doctor in Pakistan but decided not to continue working as a GP here because I wanted to work in preventive medicine. I pursued a Master of Public Health...
Since we started our free webinars in October 2019 over 1,500 people have joined us. Here’s what we presented. Four steps to working effectively with interpreters Plain Language Writing Diversity & Inclusion: Making a Start Health Literacy for communicating in a...
CALD & Migrant Populations Cluster Group. CEH Co-Manager Alison Coelho has recently become a participant in ASHM’s new Taskforce on BBVs, Sexual Health and COVID-19. Alison has been allocated to the CALD and Migration Cluster Group within the Clinical Care topic....
MEDIA RELEASE: Health Translations, Australia’s definitive multilingual COVID-19 resources & information portal. COVID-19 & Health Translations, Australia’s reliable and complete collection of multilingual consumer information. Media Release...
“THE RISK IS NOT KNOWING” Recent advances in HIV prevention and treatment are bringing us closer to ending HIV, but many people don’t know about them. On 4th March 2020, young women from Melbourne’s Latin community came together and joined the conversation about HIV...
