In a previous post, Jennifer Doggett shared her top six reflections from the Australian Health Promotion Association’s recent Symposium in Canberra.
These were that:
- Health problems outlast political crises
- The heat is on…especially in cities
- “Think Global: Act Local” is not just a bumper sticker
- Learn from Indigenous wisdom about health and the environment
- What we measure (and how we measure it) matters
- Community engagement is key to successful health promotion research and practice.
Warm thanks to all tweeps for contributing to the Twitter wrap below of the news from #AHPA2018.
Themed session: Policy, Power & Politics
Professor Fran Baum: Governing for Health and Equity: Essential for our Health and Survival
The slide above says:
Qualities health promoters will need
- Understanding of what creates healthy environments, societies, communities and people
- Regulation is often good for our health
- Collaborative: beyond the silos
- Imaginative: doing things differently
- Inclusive: welcome dissent, encourage civil society opposition voices and listen to them
- Hopeful: see the light despite the darkness
- Courageous: brave enough to stand up to powerful, vested interests
- Promote health not profit
- Kindness and caring in policy formulation and implementation (eg welcoming asylum seekers, not off shore detention, Uluru Statement not Northern Territory Intervention).
Professor Lisa Jackson Pulver
Themed Session: Population, Partnerships and Programs
Leadership and Innovation for Traditional Health Promotion. Lessons from NSW
Professor Chris Rissel
Deadly Choices: Changing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health attitudes and behaviours in South East Queensland
Ms Donisha Duff
Themed session: Planet and Place
Promoting Health in the Anthropocene
Professor Tony Capon
Working Together to Create Healthy Supportive Built Environments
Professor Susan Thompson 
Dr Hannah Badland
Dr Iain Butterworth
Dr Xiaoqi Feng
Barry Sandison, Director (CEO) Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Workshops and other topics
Posters
Snaps and selfies
Acknowledgements
Warm thanks to all tweeps for your contributions: #AHPA2018 trended nationally.
And a big shout-out to those who guest tweeted for @WePublicHealth.
Next stop, NZ
• Jennifer Doggett attended the conference on Friday 24 August to report for the Croakey Conference News Service. Her stories can be seen here, and the program can be seen here.
