Preventive Health Conference 2025

Conference objectives​

• Create an environment that promotes collaboration and knowledge sharing and facilitates engagement among delegates to work together to achieve better health outcomes for Australians;

• Create opportunities to discuss issues of diversity, disability, and accessibility, and provide opportunities for all delegates to participate;

• Provide guidance and insight into ways of capacity building and strengthening of prevention systems; and

• Provide conference delegates with new and innovative ideas that can be applied to local settings to help create and improve preventive health for local communities.
   

Our challenge set by the previous conference chair is to make this conference work better for on-the-ground health promotion workers involved in prevention, while making sure it keeps working well for academics and policy makers.

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Target audience
 

Our target audience is stakeholders able to effect and/or influence change at the systems and/or practice level including:

• Researchers and Academics

• Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services sector

• Health care professionals engaged in prevention (doctors, nurses, allied health, dentists, pharmacists

• Commonwealth and state policy staff including Ministers/ministerial staff, and health and social sector department representatives.

• Local government

• NGO/community and social sector provider and advocacy organisations

• School Health Promotion workers

The program will run over three days with plenary and concurrent sessions including long oral presentations, rapid-fire presentations, poster displays and tabletop presentations, workshops, and keynote plenary presentations.