Welcome!

Thank you for your interest in presenting at the 2024 CAPHIA Teaching & Learning Forum.

About the Forum
CAPHIA represent thousands of public health educators, researchers, practitioners and students across Australasia. Our annual Teaching and Learning Forum is our flagship event, providing opportunities for our community of practice to come together to create education which equips the public health workforce with the skills and knowledge required to improve the public’s health, and tackle current and future challenges.

The 2024 Teaching and Learning Forum is hosted by the University of Queensland's School of Public Health, and co-chaired by Professor Lisa Hall and A/Professor Sheleigh Lawler.

Forum Theme and Streams
Contemporary public health challenges require collaborative solutions, and future-proofing the public health workforce means developing professionals and future leaders who can perform in the face of complexity and uncertainty. Our theme for 2024 is "Partnered Journeys".

This years’ focus on Partnership reflects our commitment, as a community of practice, to curiosity, open-mindedness and to making space for personal and cultural expression. Collaboration is at the heart of public health and core to CAPHIA’s mission. Public health educators have an important opportunity to model this, by establishing authentic partnerships that value diverse knowledge and perspectives. Meanwhile, we recognize that the future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. Our focus on Partnered Journeys reflects our desire to take part in co-creating effective public health education to address current and future challenges.

Streams
Via our three forum streams – Students, Community and Workforce – we aim to centre these perspectives and invite participants to:
> Think differently about the role of students in teaching and learning.
> Centre community by establishing reciprocal, authentic partnerships which value local, Indigenous and other knowledges and perspectives.
> Strengthen workforce capability, foster employability, entrepreneurship, and industry partnership.

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