Past Education

This session explored challenges families face when settling in a new country and what primary health care professionals can do to support parents raise healthy children. Presentations and a panel discussion covered healthy childhood development, impacts of intergenerational trauma and pathways for ongoing care for children of refugee background.

Speakers included:

• Farhia Haji: Community perspectives on raising healthy kids
• Kathryn Eichmann: The impact of learning English as a second language and more
• Amy Burkett: Kids and Refugee Trauma
• Dr David Levitt: Trauma in refugee kids

Missed this session? Watch it online via this link. 

Download the Handout presented by Children’s Health Qld at the event which includes:

• What assists with Learning English as a Second Language?
• Vocabulary Development Milestones

This clinical education session was delivered in partnership with the Refugee Health Network Qld, Brisbane South PHN, Brisbane North PHN, Northern Qld PHN and Mater.

For more information and referral points for Child and Youth see the Child and Youth page here.

• Discuss considerations when caring for patients from a culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) background with a disability
• Describe how to assist patients of CALD background to access and participate in the NDIS
• Identify key resources available to support CALD patients and families with NDIS
• Identify best practice processes that can facilitate culturally safe care.

Facilitators: Dr Margaret Kay, GP & Brisbane South PHN Multicultural Health Clinical lead

Panel members: National Disability Insurance Agency, Carers Queensland Local Area Coordination teams, Benevolent Society (Early Childhood Early Intervention) and AMPARO Advocacy.

Watch it online via the links below.

• Part One
• Part Two

This session aimed to help primary health care professionals understand how to manage HIV for their patients of refugee background.

Missed this session? Watch it online via the links below.

• Chapter 1: Case Study and Maria Phaltang & Samira Ali, Refugee Health Advisory Group (G11) – community views
• Chapter 2: Jacqueline Kennedy, HIV Public Health
• Chapter 3: Dr Margaret Kay, GP & Brisbane South PHN Multicultural Health Clinical lead – The role of the GP
• Chapter 4: Dr Julian Langton-Lockton, Clinical Director & Consultant Physician, Sexual Health & HIV Service
• Chapter 5: Zhihong Gu, Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland
• Chapter 6: Satrio Nindyo Istiko (Tiko) & Gizelle van Zyl, Qld Positive People
• Chapter 7: Panel discussion

Download the Presentations (PDF) here.

For more information and referral points for HIV see the Infectious Diseases page

This clinical education session was delivered in partnership with the Refugee Health Network Qld, Brisbane South PHN, Brisbane North PHN, Northern Qld PHN and Mater.

The Refugee Health Showcase, held at the State Library of Qld focused on ‘Refugee Health and Wellbeing: A policy and action plan for Queensland 2017-20 Two years in, one year to go, where to from here?’

MCs for the Refugee Health Showcase: Angel Bogicevic and Elizabeth Niyokushima

Download the presentations here:

• Evaluation of the Policy and Action Plan: The how and why of peer led research? What does the baseline collection tell us? Ignacio Correa-Velez – Co-CEO QPASTT & Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Social Work, QUT
• The value and challenges of a diverse workforce Spase Veljanovski – Senior Project Officer, Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health (CEH)
• What personal experience brings to clinical practice– Aline Mweze – Multicultural Nurse Navigator, QEII
• ‘Calling an Ambulance in Queensland’ A Virtual Reality Video launch
  Access the videos in 9 languages (including English) HERE.
• Workshop: Strengthening Workforce Diversity and Inclusion – You know why, but how? – Facilitated by Spase Veljanovski – CEH
  

The session in Townsville covered the Refugee Settlement Journey, Refugee Health Assessment, Clinical Pathways – Malaria, Administration considerations and Mental Health referral pathways.

Download the presentation here.

This session was designed for primary care health professionals working with people of refugee background. Presentations included information about the screening and management of malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and syphilis, including syphilis in pregnancy and perspectives from different refugee communities.

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• Community perspectives of TB, Malaria and Syphilis (video 3.5 mins)
• Chapter 1: TB – Dr Chris Coulter
• Chapter 2: Malaria – Dr Paul Griffin
• Chapter 3: Syphillis – Dr Sumi Britton

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  Dr Kay interviews Dr Kostner at the Refugee Health Education event.

  Dr Karam Kostner, Director of Cardiology, Mater Hospital Cardiologist, Refugee and Asylum Seeker Cardiovascular Clinic

• Dr Margaret Kay, GP and Multicultural Health Clinical Lead, Brisbane South PHN – Download her presentation here.
• Ms. Louise Lee, Refugee Health Practice Nurse Clinical Lead Brisbane South PHN
• Ms. Hong Do – Ethnic Communities Council Qld – Download her presentation here
• Members from the Brisbane Refugee Health Advisory Group

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• Jen Albright, Stakeholder Director Queensland Central, NDIA
• Maureen Fordyce, Manager, AMPARO. Watch her presentation here.
• Venantie Niragira, Bicultural Worker, AMPARO Advocacy. Watch her presentation here.
• Dr Christine Phillips, GP and Chair, Refugee Health Network of Australia Watch her presentation here.
• Panel Q & A discussion facilitated by Dr Rachel Claydon, Qld Refugee Health Fellow. Watch it here.

Miss this education session? Watch all chapters online HERE

Refugee Health Network Qld Snapshot (2017 – 2018)

The following speakers presented at the Showcase. Click on the links for presentations:

• Mike Walsh (Director General -Qld Health)
• Donata Sackey (Chair, Refugee Health Partnership Advisory Group Qld)
• Magdalena Kuyang (QPASTT)
• Associate Professor Christine Phillips (ANU) – More than language: working with interpreters in healthcare
• Jennie Hughes (SBS) – Cultural Competence Program
• Sonia Caton (Immigration lawyer & Lecturer) www.culturalatlas.sbs.com.au/intro

Followed by concurrent sessions:

• Welcoming new communities in primary care – Donata Sackey (Mater) & Ruby Hedo (Strathpine Superclinic)

• Primary Health Network (PHN) Interpreting for Allied Health Professionals Program – Andrea Vancia (Brisbane South PHN) & Anne Marie Donovan (Darling Downs & West Moreton PHN)

• Community Engagement – “The G11” – Ally Wakefield (Mater)

• Promoting the wellbeing of Bhutanese elders by reducing social isolation and connecting people to people, using chickens – Tracey John (Centacare Multicultural Services, Cairns)

• Overcoming some important cultural barriers to breast cancer screening – Anna Voloschenko & Doreen Orchard (Breast Screen Queensland – Brisbane Northside Service)
• Big outcomes: Integrating an oral health wellness program into a refugee health service  – Leeanne Schmidt (MS Refugee Health Service) & Gillian Hillier (MSH Oral Health)

Where to from here? – Refugee Health Network Queensland  – Vicky Jacobson (Refugee Health Network Qld & Donata Sackey (Mater)

Panel address a case study at the education event

Miss this education session?

Watch it online HERE

Refugee Mental Health Flyer

Written by National HBV Reference Committee and updated and presented by Dr. Margaret Kay, General Practitioner, Salisbury, QLD. Watch the webinar online here: Presentation by Dr Margaret Kay.

Watch the Education sessions online by clicking on the links below.

• Setting the Scene –   Dr Margaret Kay, GP & Refugee Health Clinical Lead BSPHN
• The Nursing Assessment – Leeanne Schmidt, CNC Metro South Refugee Health Service
• The Medical Assessment –  Dr. Margaret Kay, GP & Refugee Health Clinical Lead BSPHN
• General Practice Administration – Clare Brotherson, Administration Officer, Mater Integrated Refugee Health Services
• The Community Perspective – Zaynal Hawa, Health Development Consultant, Brisbane Refugee Health Advisory Group
• The Settlement Services – Rose MacAuslane, Humanitarian Settlement Services Team Leader, MDA
• Qld Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma – Fernanda Torresi, Manager – Community Relationships & Capacity Building, QPASTT
• Questions to the Panel

Download the ‘Back to Basics Refugee Health’ Education Event Power Point Presentation

Further Information:

• Refugee Health in Qld – A Snapshot
• Tips for GPs seeing a patient of refugee background for the first time  (Feb 2017)
• Recommended Pathology Investigations for refugee new arrivals (including children)
• Immunisation Checklist for newly arrived refugees – Brisbane South PHN (2016)
• Refugee Health Ready Practice Checklist –  A quick reference guide for General Practices
• General Practice Administration Tip Sheet (working with patients of refugee backgrounds)
• Recommendations to GPs from women from refugee backgrounds
• Video – This video demonstrates the importance of using interpreters when seeing patients (Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists).

This event was organised by the Refugee Primary Health Care Clinical Advisory Group and funded by Brisbane South PHN, Brisbane North PHN and Mater.

Watch the Education session online HERE (video 1.56) 

MC –  Dr Rebecca Farley (Mater Refugee Health)
Michelle Steel (Mater Refugee MGP – Clinical Midwife)
Dr Anupinder Kaur (Logan Maternity Service) – case study
Dr Huda Safa (Mater Maternity Service) – Women’s Health
Dr Megan Castner – Women’s Health on Nauru
Hypothetical Case Study with panel discussion

Further Reading:

Hearst AA, Molnar AM. Female genital cutting: an evidence-based approach to clinical management for the primary care physician. Mayo Clin Proc. 2013 Jun;88(6):618-29.
UNICEF – FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION/CUTTING: A GLOBAL CONCERN
World Health Organisation Information on FGM 

This event was organised by the Refugee Primary Health Care Clinical Advisory Group and funded by Brisbane South PHN, Brisbane North PHN and Mater.