The Rural Health Education Foundation celebrated its 15th anniversary as an independent organisation with the Governor-General, Ms Quentin Bryce AC, who is one of its strongest supporters. The Governor-General hosted an event in honour of the Foundation on 9th …
The Rural Health Education Foundation has relocated its Canberra headquarters to more spacious premises in Deakin.
The new Foundation offices, on the Ground Floor of 38 Thesiger Court, feature a more accessible layout that enables staff and visitors to more easily view the Foundation’s satellite programs when they air.
Staff and broadcast …
read more »On Tuesday February 22nd the Rural Health Education Foundation will present a live and interactive simultaneous satellite TV broadcast and webcast public forum on health and wellbeing after treatment for breast cancer.
Moving Forward: Surviving Breast Cancer, produced in collaboration with the Westmead Breast Cancer Institute, explores the need for …
read more »SBS television will broadcast a Rural Health Education Foundation program about closing the life expectancy gap in Indigenous communities with a focus on chronic disease on Friday April 1st.
Live Strong: Closing the Gap on Chronic Disease details how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities can successfully tackle chronic disease …
read more »A new Rural Health Education Foundation television program that covers new vaccines, vaccine safety and best practice, and the updates to the National Immunisation Program Schedule, will air on Tuesday February 8th.
Immunisation: Getting to the Point discusses recent outbreaks and pandemics as well as the benefits and impacts of …
read more »Three new interactive programs about different forms of cancer will feature in the Rural Health Education Foundation’s 2011 broadcast schedule, along with new educational television programs on immunisation, pain management, influenza, smoking cessation, and Indigenous accident and injury.
The Foundation’s preliminary schedule of accredited …
read more »Dr David Rosenthal is the new Chair of the Rural Health Education Foundation’s Board of Directors, following Dr Brian Bowring, who has served in the position for the past eight years and will remain on the board as a Director.
This will be Dr Rosenthal’s second stint as Foundation Chair, having …
read more »The Rural Health Education Foundation will broadcast a short promotion about the Australian Government Department of Health & Ageing’s Rural Health Strategy on Tuesday December 7th.
The five-minute promotion entitled How will the Rural Health Workforce Strategy help doctors? is the first of three programs produced by the Department of …
read more »A new Rural Health Education Foundation television program that focuses on the skills required for timely and effective response to trauma in rural and remote Australia will be webcast simultaneously with its first airing on satellite television on Tuesday December 7th.
Trauma: Triage, Treatment and Transport will be presented as …
read more »Mr Tom Calma, the patron of the Rural Health Education Foundation, will be a keynote speaker at the 11th National Rural Health Conference in Perth in March 2011.
Foundation CEO Don Perlgut will also present a paper at the conference and senior Foundation staff and Chair Dr Brian Bowring will manage …
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