Multicultural health conference aims to inspire change

A first of its kind national multicultural health and wellbeing conference was kicked off in Sydney. The aim of the conference is to open dialogue and discuss ways of improving Australia's health system for multicultural communities.

Mary Ann Geronimo is the CEO of FECCA; Lisa Woodland, Director of Communication of Multicultural NSW; Smrithi Nair, a Psychologist providing free service to migrant community in Melbourne and a presenter at the conference; Rita Prasad-Ildes, CEO of World Wellness Group - an organisation that provides health services to migrants and a presenter at the conference; Dr Samantha Siyambalapitiya, a researcher at Griffith University and a presenter at the conference; and Cibin Ilyas, Healthy North Coast (North Coast PHN) - a participant at the conference.

The conference titled, “National Multicultural Health & Wellbeing Conference 2023” was organised by the Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia (FECCA and the Australian Multicultural Health Collaborative (The Collaborative) in partnership with NSW Health.

Kulasegaram Sanchayan reports.

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