Our Latest News
Video: Pastor Smith explains why faith leaders play an important role in health
Pastor Smith explains his role as a faith leader in helping improve his community’s health. One of the ways he does this is by helping raise awareness around HIV and blood-borne viruses (BBVs) prevention and treatment, as well as helps break down stigma and barriers to treatment.
Video: Volunteer Jawid tells us about his role with M-CAN
Jawid Hakimi is a volunteer for the Multicultural Community Action Network (M-CAN) and is passionate about improving his community’s health.
There’s much more to ‘Harmony Day’ than it appears
In March we celebrated Harmony Day in Australia. Harmony Day is an attempt to acknowledge the contributions of multicultural communities to Australian society. It is celebrated with many community festivals and local events with global food and music and traditional dress. So what’s the problem? One day alone, (or week) to come together to indulge our senses, does little more than placate individual and well-connected ethnic communities.
Hope talks about our Youth Ambassador program
Hope tells us about why its important to with young people in the areas of sexual health. She explains the 'zine' project and how it helps explores issues around sexual health, sexuality, identity and relationships. Related Information Let us inform you about our...
Speaking with clients who have low English proficiency
Practical tips on how to better communicate in English with clients whose English skills may be limited.
Looking for bicultural workers to participate in a project
The Victorian Refugee Health Network is conducting a project, with support from the Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health, which aims to build the skills of people employed in bicultural roles to consult with refugee background communities about their health priorities and experiences of using health services.
Use the Cultural Competence Organisational Review Tool (CORe)
The Cultural Competence Organisational Review (CORe) tool helps organisations improve their own cultural competence. By improving cultural competence, organisations strengthen their service delivery (access and appropriateness) to people from refugee and migrant communities.
What is privilege and cultural appropriation? and why is it so difficult to talk about?
This article explores the implications of taking symbols, names, ideas from other cultures and the idea white, race and gender privilege’. Here is a QnA format of an interview Dr Ruth De Souza, leader of our Research program, did with Kelly Higgins-Devine on 612 ABC Brisbane Afternoons.
The Sexy Times – a sexual health and identity zine
This project brought young people together to collaboratively create a zine that reflected issues which were important to them. This included messages around positive body image, fighting gender-based violence, and prevention of blood-borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections… and much more.
Cultural Competence Organisational Review Tool
Are you a service provider? We have developed a tool that can you help you improve your organisation’s cultural competence, which will in turn help you work more effectively with people from refugee and migrant backgrounds.
Health Translations Directory
We are managing and improving the Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Translations Directory. This project involves working with organisations who have contributed their resources, reviewing the functionality and design of the site, and developing new multilingual health resources.
Olivia tells us why she joined the Multicultural Community Action Network
he Multicultural Community Action Network (MCAN) is intended to develop long term partnerships that will bring together peer educators, other relevant community leaders and CEH. Olivia Williams is a peer educator who is dedicated to improving the health of her community.
View Our Newsletters
Catch up on CEH news and events
And Health Translations latest resources