NATIONAL HEALTH PROMOTION SYMPOSIUM 2024
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
AHPA is thrilled to announce that the following keynote speakers will be joining us in Canberra at the National Health Promotion Symposium 2024!
More information and keynote speaker announcements coming soon.
Caterina Giorgi
Caterina Giorgi is the CEO of the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE), an Australian not for profit organisation working towards an Australia free from alcohol harm.
Caterina is also a Founding Member of Women in Public Health, a network of women from across Australia working to advance gender equity in public health; and the Founder of For Purpose, an organisation that supports not-for-profits s to drive change.
Caterina is an Ambassador of NOFASD. She has also previously served on the Boards of YMCA Canberra and Fair Agenda. Caterina has an honours degree in public health and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).
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Monica Kelly
Monica is Victoria’s first Mental Health and Wellbeing Promotion Adviser, commencing in the role in June 2022. She is also the Executive Director of the Prevention, Policy and First People’s Branch of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Division in the Victorian Department of Health.
She has worked as an Executive in Public Health, Primary Care and Human Services for many years in Victoria and previously in the Northern Territory.
Monica’s areas of expertise are health inequities, public health and health promotion, particularly with marginalised communities. Monica also brings lived and living experience of the mental health system and of intellectual disability and neurodiversity as a carer.
Sione Tu'itahi
Sione is the Executive Director of the Health Promotion Forum of New Zealand. At the global level, he is the President of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), and the founder and Co-Chair of the IUHPE Global Working Group on Waiora Planetary Health and Human Wellbeing.
With 30 years of experience in leadership and management in the education and health sectors in Aotearoa New Zealand, and at the international level, Sione is an educator, a writer and public health leader. His areas of interest in health promotion include planetary health, determinants of health, human rights, and Indigenous knowledge. A former journalist and broadcaster, Sione is also a musician and poet.
In recognition of his significant contributions to health promotion and public health at the national and international levels, Sione was awarded the 2019 New Zealand Public Health Champion Award by the Public Health Association of New Zealand.”
PANEL DISCUSSION
Dr Sandro Demaio
Dr Sandro Demaio is the CEO of VicHealth, a medical doctor and a globally-renowned public health expert and advocate. Previously the CEO of the EAT Foundation, the science-based global platform for food systems transformation, Dr Demaio has also held the role of Medical Officer for non-communicable conditions and nutrition at the World Health Organization (WHO).
Dr Demaio originally trained and worked as a medical doctor at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. He holds a Masters degree in public health, a PhD in non-communicable diseases, and has held fellowships at Harvard Medical School, Copenhagen School of Global Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of Melbourne. To date, he has published more than 40 scientific papers, including coordinating the 2019 Lancet series on nutrition.
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Dr Robyn Littlewood
Dr Robyn Littlewood is Queensland’s prevention and public health expert dedicated to creating a healthier and fairer Queensland. An experienced leader, researcher, clinician, academic and educator, Dr Littlewood is an advocate for strong public health policy with more than 25 years of experience working with patients and families in clinical prevention and treatment of chronic disease, and research.
Dr Littlewood has contributed to the evidence base of paediatric healthcare with >100 publications, and trained hundreds of students throughout 20 years of frontline service.
Dr Littlewood believes every Queenslander has the right to better health. She works relentlessly to achieve this using a systems-based approach, research and data to leverage $46 million in funding through partnerships in her first term at HWQld. Dr Littlewood holds a raft of formal qualifications including a Bachelor of Science, Graduate Certificate in Executive Leadership, a Master of Medical Science and PhD from The University of Queensland (UQ), a Post Graduate Diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and a Master of Business Administration from James Cook University.
Marina Bowshall
In September 2023 Marina commenced as Interim Chief Executive, Preventive Health SA. An experienced policy and health services professional, she has built a reputation for delivering and influencing public health outcomes through effective integrated responses.
Marina has led and collaborated on national and state health policy, strategy, and programs throughout her career. This has included leading legislative change; implementing statewide and community based programs, including social marketing programs; developing, implementing and evaluating whole of government strategies at the state and national levels; partnering with government, non-government, and Aboriginal community controlled agencies to implement evidence-based prevention and harm reduction approaches; developing specific programs for disadvantaged and marginalised populations; and implementing business systems to support effective governance and the achievement of measurable outcomes. She welcomes collaboration and partnerships to enhance prevention approaches that improve whole of population health and reduce health inequity.
Marina is the Co-Chair of the National Tobacco Officials Group, Presiding Member of South Australia’s Controlled Substances Advisory Council, a member of the Suicide Prevention Council, and works collaboratively across Australia with a range of research, policy, and service organisations.