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CEH’s Alison Coelho reacts to the Serena Williams Cartoon Controversy
The implications of this work domestically reinforce the use of casual comical racism to diminish the underlying sensitivities experienced by many newly arrived communities and indeed our first nations people.
AMWA Conference 2018
CEH’s Jolyon Burford spoke about increasing service access and equity for everyone at the Australasian Medical Writers Association Conference on Friday the 24th of August. Jolyon's talk covered health literacy and best practices for creating written material for...
Health Translations up for Melbourne Award
CEH manages Australia's largest translated health directory, Health Translations. The directory was recently shortlisted in the City of Melbourne Melbourne Awards. CEH's Matt Loads recently spoke at the Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing Conference...
CEH saddened by weekend death of young woman and angered by recent racist comments by Peter Dutton.
The Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health (CEH) offers condolences and support to the family and community of Laa Chol, during this period of grief. We would also ask politicians to think carefully before using this tragic event for short-term media exposure.
CEH to partner with The Royal Children’s Hospital to engage with our diverse community.
The Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health (CEH) is excited to announce a new training partnership with The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH).
This partnership will see 6000 staff undertake training to build on their existing knowledge and skills of working with refugee and migrant communities.
CEH Celebrates Refugee Day with winners of 2018 Community Grants Program.
It was announced today, two community groups will work with CEH to improve the health of refugee and migrant communities as winners of CEH’s Community grants program. The recipients were two of five finalists for the program which is designed to encourage health promotion through education. Applications were drawn from a range of newly arrived refugee and migrant community groups.
Treatment of Refugees Is Unlawful
The treatment of asylum seekers by the Australian government is not just cruel but unlawful. We are a signatory to The 1951 Refugee Convention. Under international law, people have the right to seek asylum and be protected. According to The UN Refugee Agency, the...
CEH to announce Community Grant winners as part of Refugee week
This Wednesday, on World refugee day 20 June, the Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health (CEH) looks forward to announcing the winners of our first community grants program.
CEH reaction to 2018-19 Budget: Long term refugee health a low priority
The Centre for Culture, Ethnicity (CEH) and Health welcomes $5 million for the Fostering Integration Grants Scheme, but is disappointed with the approach to people from refugee backgrounds, generally, in the 2018-19 federal budget.
Meet our keynote speaker for the Health Translations 15 May event: Zione Walker-Nthenda
Zione has worked as a lawyer for over 15 years working at the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, Women’s Legal Service Victoria, Victoria Police and now runs two social enterprises
CEH supports call for greater support for International Students as part of new Al-Jazeera documentary.
Co-manager of the Centre for Culture Ethnicity and Health (CEH) and chair of the International Student Sexual Health Network, Alison Coelho has called for more support for international students after the release of the documentary ‘Rape on Campus’ on the Al Jazeera network today.
Blood Borne Viruses & AOD a focus for community members at the CEH Cultural Diversity Week Forum
As part of Cultural Diversity Week, CEH ran a forum aimed at Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities focussing on grant writing and an Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) forum.
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