Promoting multicultural health and wellbeing
We are dedicated to promoting equity for multicultural communities in Australia. This includes identifying the challenges and barriers impacting their health and wellbeing, and partnering with them directly, as well as government, service providers and other researchers to create individual-, community- and system-level solutions.
Examples of current and past projects are below and you can check out some of our learnings from them in a resource we developed to support policy makers and practitioners in promoting multicultural health and wellbeing.
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The second was to co-produce, as above, a ‘below the line’ campaign, which is a package of communication and engagement activities that are community-led, delivered locally and using narrowcast channels. The focus of this campaign was to promote participation by multicultural communities in screening for bowel, breast and cervical cancers. The Better information for better health: A kit for multicultural community organisations to promote cancer screening included a range of implementation supports to guide peak multicultural organisations and their partners across Australia in the promotion of screening participation. The campaign ran from mid-April to 31 October 2024 after which we evaluated its impact. Over 440,000 multicultural community members were reached by this campaign, through information/education sessions; radio, online and social media campaigns; and developed resources. The information/education sessions were particularly impactful, with around 19% attendees reporting they intended to get screened after attending a session.
Helen Skouteris was invited to join around 35 other thought leaders, practitioners and people with lived experience for the Multicultural Health Roundtable. We were also invited to prepare and present a discussion paper. Our paper stimulated conversations and thinking around key issues and challenges experienced by multicultural communities related to health literacy, workforce, cultural competence and service navigation, among others. It also detailed a range of potential best practice system-level opportunities for the roundtable participants to discuss and consider to improve multicultural health in Australia.