Tag: mentoring program
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Learn from different worldviews, says PHAA Mentor of the Year, Professor Rob Moodie
By Rob Moodie, PHAA Mentor of the Year Rob Moodie, Professor of Public Health at the University of Melbourne, was recognised for his commitment to mentorship at the 2023 Australian Public Health Conference. We chatted to him about his career and the importance of mentorship in public health. What was…
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‘Definitely apply’: Former physiotherapist Roger Lay on career transition & the National Mentoring Program
Students and Young Professionals in Public Health (SYPPH) Committee – PHAA The PHAA’s nine month mentoring program aims to unite experienced public health professionals (mentors) and early career PHAA members (mentees) with similar interest areas. The program aims to build the capacity of mentees, provide experience in mentorship to public…
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Early career researcher Amy Carrad shares experience as mentee in 2022 National Mentoring Program
Students and Young Professionals in Public Health (SYPPH) Committee – PHAA The PHAA’s nine month mentoring program aims to unite experienced public health professionals (mentors) and early career PHAA members (mentees) with similar interest areas. The program aims to build the capacity of mentees, provide experience in mentorship to public…
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Kristie Cocotis on mentoring the next generation of Public Health professionals
Students & Young Professionals in Public Health (SYPPH) Committee – PHAA The PHAA’s nine month mentoring program aims to unite experienced public health professionals (mentors) and early career PHAA members (mentees) with similar interest areas. The program aims to build the capacity of mentees, provide experience in mentorship to public…
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Taking the Initiative to Strengthen and Sustain Western Australia’s Public Health Workforce
Terry Slevin – PHAA Continuing the theme of developing the Public Health Workforce, what follows is a focus on the WA Public Health Officer Training Program (PHOTP). PHAA CEO, Adjunct Professor Terry Slevin, one of the volunteer Mentors in the program, drew on the program evaluation report to provide this…
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PHAA congratulates our Mentor of the Year, Prof Sharon Friel
Jeremy Lasek – PHAA Background The great film director, Steven Spielberg, perhaps best summed up the crucial role of a mentor when he said: “the delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.” The additional pressures put…
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Magnificent response supports Victoria’s COVID-19 front-line public health worker mentoring program
Jeremy Lasek The catch-cry ‘we’re all in this together’ during the COVID-19 public health emergency has brought to the fore a multitude of examples of ‘people helping people’ in the most challenging of circumstances. The latest example is the response to a nation-wide call for public health mentors to…