Course Description:
This webinar for primary care providers, including Medical Practitioners and Nursing Professionals, aims to improve knowledge and confidence in supporting and caring for patients from migrant and refugee communities.
Date, Time & Venue:
Online- Teams
Thursday 10 July 2025, 6:30pm – 8:30pm (AEST)
Target Audience:
General Practitioners, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses and other interested healthcare workers in NSW.
Speakers/Facilitators:
Dr Caran Cheung – Experienced GP HBV s100 prescriber, Mascot Medical
Nooria Mehraby – Senior Clinician/Clinical Trainer, NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors (STARTTS)
Natali Smud – Senior Manager Multicultural HIV and Hepatitis Service | Diversity Programs & Strategy Hub, Population Health
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify the challenges and barriers experienced by people from migrant and refugee backgrounds who are living with CHB.
- Outline the importance of providing culturally responsive and trauma-informed health care, including working with interpreters
- Contrast the trajectories of hepatitis B disease in people from CALD backgrounds compared to people born in Australia.
- Review effective strategies to improve health outcomes for people from CALD communities living with CHB
Endorsement and CPD:
This is an RACGP-approved CPD activity under the RACGP CPD Program.
This educational activity will also accrue 1 HBV CPD point.
Funding:
This activity is funded by NSW Health.
For more information:
Please contact ASHM Education at [email protected] or call 0431 320 429.
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