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This locally driven virtual education series aims to provide Aboriginal Health Professionals working in the WNSW PHN and WNSW LHD area with an opportunity to learn and yarn together with peers and key Public Health Unit presenters. This session will provide Aboriginal Health Professionals with an overview of the importance of skin health in preventing illness and disease including an understanding of how to keep skin healthy and what can go wrong if skin is not looked after.

Presented by

Cathie Hallahan, CNC Communicable Disease, PHU, WNSW LHD

David Orozco, RN, Communicable Diseases Team, PHU, WNSW LHD

Learning Outcomes

• Understand how skin protects us from illness and disease
• Discuss diseases that affect us when our skin health is poor including scabies, strep infections, rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease
• Outline how looking after our skin, including hygiene measures and healthy housing, can prevent illness and disease

Program

9.55am        Login

10.00am      Welcome, Introductions & Acknowledgement of Country

10.05am      Education session

11.00am      Q&A with the presenters and panelists

11.10am      Yarning session (not recorded)

11.30am      Evaluation and Close

Target Audience

Aboriginal Health Workers and Aboriginal Health Practitioners working in Western and Far West NSW

Endorsement:

          1.5 CPD hours

Contact

Email erica.gilbert@wnswphn.org.au

Mobile 0428 311 887

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By attending this event, you agree to being, photographed by WNSW PHN and/or our identified event presenters/partners. Any recorded material may then be used for online, social media, marketing or promotional purposes. If you do not consent to your image(s) or voice being recorded or shared, please email cpd@wnswphn.org.au