Indigenous Environmental Health: Report of the Fifth National Conference 2004
Appendix 2: National Indigenous Environmental Health Forum
Table of contents
- Glossary
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword from the National Indigenous Environment Health Forum
- Introduction from the enHealth Council
- Recommendations
Conference Opening- Environmental Health Workforce Development
- Housing Issues and Planning
- Local, Regional and National Initiatives
- Community Capacity Building and Partnerships
- Community Food Supply and Nutrition
- Environmental Health Services in Communities
- Storyboard Presentations
Appendixes
Terms of Reference
The NIEHF, comprising Indigenous environmental health practitioners from around Australia, was established as a reference group of the enHealth Council.The Terms of Reference agreed to by the members of the NIEHF and the enHealth Council in 2000 are to:
- identify and provide policy advice to the enHealth Council on Indigenous and environmental health issues
- provide comment to the enHealth Council on national strategies/activities that impact on environmental and public health issues
- provide input and direction into the Indigenous Environmental Health Conference/Workshops and other mainstream conferences relating to environmental health.
Membership
Chair
Xavier Schobben,Director, Environmental Health,
Department of Health and Community Services,
Northern Territory
Members
New South WalesGlenn Pearce,
Senior Environmental Health Officer,
New England Public Health Unit, Tamworth
Victoria
Shane Nichols,
Aboriginal Services Manager,
Quality Improvement Unit, Barwon-South Western Region,
Department of Human Services, Victoria
Queensland
Clayton Abreu,
Indigenous Environmental Health Coordinator,
Tropical Public Health Unit, Cairns
Western Australia
Iris Prouse,
Coordinating Officer, Environmental Health,
Kimberley Public Health Unit, Derby
Susan Murphy,
Director,
Pilbara Meta Maya RAC, Derby
South Australia
Julie Driver,
Environmental Health Officer, Regional Services Branch,
Department of Human Services, South Australia (Deputy Chair)
Tasmania
Jeanette James,
Aboriginal Policy Officer,
Department of Health and Human Services, Tasmania
Northern Territory
Zane Hughes,
Lecturer, Environmental Health,
Batchelor Institute of Tertiary Education, Batchelor
Secretariat
Vinny Valentine,
Department of Health, Western Australia