Role
The Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Communities Health Advisory Group provides a two-way communication channel between the Australian Government and multicultural communities.
It provides expertise, advice and recommendations to shape culturally safe policy and communications to improve health and wellbeing for people and communities from multicultural backgrounds.
The advisory group includes representation from:
- multicultural community leaders
- public health and medical experts
- Department of Health and Aged Care
- Department of Home Affairs
- state and territory governments.
Background
The Australian Government is committed to improving health equity for people from CALD backgrounds and to learning from the experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It established the advisory group in December 2020 as the CALD Communities COVID-19 Health Advisory Group, to provide advice about the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Australian Government expanded the advisory group’s remit to advise on broader health and wellbeing matters for multicultural communities from 1 January 2023.
Terms of reference
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities Health Advisory Group – Terms of reference
Members
| Role | Name | Organisation |
| Chair | Ms Trish Clancy | Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care |
| Member – Organisations | ||
| Member | Ms Erica Biddle | Australian Government Department of Home Affairs |
| Member | Mr Leo Di Giorgio | Allied Health Professions Australia |
| Member | Mx Renee Dixson | Forcibly Displaced People Network |
| Member | Dr Jane Douglas | Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation |
| Member | Ms Rana Ebrahimi | Multicultural Youth Advocacy Network |
| Member | Ms Sandra Elhelw Wright | Settlement Council of Australia |
| Member | Mary Ann Geronimo | Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia |
| Member | A/Prof Erika Gonzalez Garcia | Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators |
| Member | TBA | Mental Health Australia (Embrace Multicultural Mental Health) |
| Member | Mrs Maria Johns | Multicultural Aged Care (PICAC Alliance) |
| Member | Dr Adele Murdolo | Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health |
| Member | Ms Jamila Padhee | Forum of Australian Services for Survivors of Torture and Trauma (FASSTT) |
| Member | Dr Aidan Tan | The Royal Australasian College of Physicians |
| Member | Dr Kate Walker | Royal Australian College of General Practitioners |
| Member | Ms Carla Wilshire | Social Policy Group |
| Member – Health Expert | ||
| Health Expert | A/Prof Georgia Paxton | Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne |
| Health Expert | Professor Christine Phillips | Companion House Medical Service |
| Health Expert | A/Prof Ines Rio | North Western Melbourne Primary Health Networks |
| Health Expert | Prof Helen Skouteris | Healthcare Improvement and Implementation Science at Monash University |
| Health Expert | Dr Judy Tang | Invictus Health |
| Health Expert | Mrs Andrea Vancia | Brisbane South Primary Health Network |
| State and Territory Observers | ||
| Observer | TBA | Northern Territory Government |
| Observer | Ms Bee Andersson | Government of South Australia |
| Observer | Professor Ben Cowie | Victorian Government |
| Observer | Mrs Udani Dhanojanan | Government of Western Australia |
| Observer | Mrs Elizabeth Mahnken | Tasmanian Government |
| Observer | Ms Melanie Nicholls | Queensland Government |
| Observer | Mr Nick Sandrejko | New South Wales Government |
| Observer | Mr Izaac White | ACT Government |
Communiques
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities Health Advisory Group – Communiques
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