Learn about how our Health Promotion team can help you.
About our Health Promotion Team
We are a team of health promotion practitioners, dietitians, and community development workers, dedicated to supporting educators, leaders and volunteers to champion and promote healthy lifestyle choices at your service, business or club.
If you operate within the City of Greater Dandenong, City of Casey or Cardinia Shire Council, our team can help you.
Contact us
Email: HealthPromotion@monashhealth.org
Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm. We do not work on public holidays.
Practice Fellows
SEPHU welcomed Camilo Cayazaya and Abrar Mahsud as our two Practice Fellows (Prevention and Health Promotion) in 2023. Prior to commencing their Fellowship Camilo and Abrar worked as Public Health Officers in the Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control (CDPC) program at SEPHU. They bring a range of public health skills and knowledge to the Fellowship positions, alongside clinical expertise in their respective fields of Dietetics (Camilo) and Medicine (Abrar).
The Practice Fellowship (Prevention and Health Promotion) is a 12-month program that aims to build highly trained, vocationally prepared prevention and health promotion practitioners, with a focus on contemporary public health functions and practice. Camilo and Abrar will work within SEPHU on health promotion and prevention initiatives, with training and development supported by VicHealth. Camilo’s Fellowship project will focus on Nutrition Literacy, and Abrar’s on Social Prescribing. We look forward to their input over the next 12 months as SEPHU expands its remit around preventative health.
Understanding Vaping – webinar
Watch the webinar recording below to learn more about the effects of vaping.
Gain crucial insights and effective communication strategies to address the potential risks of vaping with our young people. Equip yourself with the knowledge, guidance, and tools to tackle vaping challenges effectively.
This webinar was hosted by Monash Health in collaboration with Quit Victoria, the City of Greater Dandenong, the City of Casey, and the Cardinia Shire Council.
Call Quitline 13 7848 for quit vaping support and counselling or visit the get the facts on vaping resource hub.
Resource pack
General resources
- ‘Get the facts on vaping’: Quit Victoria’s new online information hub for parents and adults
- ‘See through the haze’ anti-vaping campaign information and shareable assets: Quit Victoria
- Tobacco in Australia: A comprehensive review of the major issues in smoking and health in Australia, compiled by Cancer Council Victoria. This is a great resource for up-to-date research. Research on e-cigarettes is on Chapter 18
- Vaping and E-Cigarette Prevention toolkit for schools: Peninsula Health
- Achievement Program: A free health and wellbeing program open to all Victorian schools, early childhood services and workplaces. Settings can create healthier working and learning environments by meeting a series of benchmarks for key health priority areas including tobacco and smoking. The Achievement Program also includes many resources and policy templates. The Health Promotion team can support with the implementation of the Achievement Program framework.
- Healthy Sports Clubs: A free initiative for sports clubs in the City of Greater Dandenong, City of Casey and Cardinia Shire Council. It encourages clubs to create healthier environments that promote good health and wellbeing.
Signage
- New ‘No Smoking or Vaping’ signage and resources: Victorian Department of Health (includes free metal A3 signs for schools and early childhood services)
Videos about vaping for young people
- Year 10 Media students from Mt Clear College: Supported by Ballarat Community Health
- Teens Talk Vaping short film: Part of a research project funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- See through the haze (version 1): Quit Victoria
- More student videos coming soon from City of Casey and others