Tag: awards
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How Prevention 2024 fortified my commitment to public health
Zahra Ali Padhani As a PhD student with limited funding, I had not planned on attending the Preventive Health Conference this year. However, I was lucky enough to be selected as a recipient of the Health Promotion Special Interest Group (HPSIG) Travel Award – giving me the invaluable opportunity to…
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“Trebilco Cresent”; A tribute for a wonderful PHAA leader
Adj Prof Terry Slevin, PHAA CEO A giant of public health, Peter Trebilco (1927 – 2017), now has a street in northwest Canberra named in his honour. It’s in the new suburb of Denman Prospect, which commemorates activism and reform. Here’s the story behind that fitting tribute (coloured in yellow,…
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It’s about the ‘ah ha’ moments, says PHAA Mentor of the Year
This is the first in our series profiling winners of the PHAA Awards for 2022. Brahm Marjadi was named Mentor of the Year, and also was awarded a PHAA Fellowship. He is an Associate Professor in Community Engaged Learning and also Associate Dean for Engagement at the School of…
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High achievers honoured with 2022 PHAA Awards
From L-R: Corina Darkie, A/Prof Sophie Dwyer, Dr Joanne Flavel, A/Prof Brahm Marjadi, A/Prof Christina Pollard. Helen Tran and BF, PHAA Interns PHAA were pleased to announce the winners of five annual awards during the Annual General Meeting in Adelaide. We have briefly profiled these public health leaders, who…
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Celebrating PHAA members’ Australia Day Honours – Professor Sandy Thompson AM
Jeremy Lasek – PHAA Introduction Today we continue our articles, profiling the roles played in Australia’s incredibly diverse public health workforce. In a series of articles over the next few weeks, we will recognise and celebrate those who received well-deserved ‘gongs’ in the recent Australia Day Honours list. We begin…
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Powerful pair recognised for decades of persistence at tobacco control
Paris Lord – PHAA Editor’s note: this Intouch post is longer than usual, but is worth your time, particularly if you can remember how ubiquitous smoking and its advertising was in Australia, and the efforts it took to counter that. It’s New Year’s Day 1992. Ascot race course, Perth.…
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PHAA celebrates Michelle Dickson’s teaching contribution and shares her COVID-19 ‘silver linings’
‘For over 30 years, she has made a catalytic contribution to strengthening Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, their communities and their health, through education, research and service.’ So said the nominators of Associate Professor Michelle Dickson, a very worthy winner of the PHAA’s 2021 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…
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PHAA and SBS-TV recognise the work of ‘Too Deadly for Diabetes’ creator, Ray Kelly
Jeremy Lasek – PHAA One of the great strengths of the PHAA’s annual awards is to uncover great stories of public health best practice at work and making a big difference to people’s lives. Ray Kelly was Highly Commended in the Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Public Health Award for…