National Symposium

28 & 29 March, 2019

RMIT City Campus, Melbourne

Equally Well in Action: Implementing strategies to improve the physical health of people living with mental illness.

Focussing on implementation and solutions

Equally Well Australia is hosting a symposium with invited experts from the UK, New Zealand and Australia who will share the latest developments to enhance the health of people living with mental illness.

Quality of Life – Equality in Life

Themes — The symposium will focus on the 6 essential elements and the actions of the National Consensus Statement:

  1. Equipping and engaging consumers
  2. Promotion and prevention
  3. Equity of access
  4. Providing quality care
  5. Care coordination
  6. Measuring progress

The symposium aims to highlight innovative practice and showcase excellence. To this end we are inviting poster presentations on the following topics:

  • Human rights
  • Peer workforce
  • Young people
  • Smoking
  • Lifestyle
  • Digital health
  • Substance use
  • Older people
  • Training and development
  • Improving access
  • LGBTI

Comprehensive care

  • Care coordination
  • Informed consent and Informed consumers
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

For sign-on and further details on the Equally Well Symposium please click here.

For the list of speakers, their abstracts and presentations, please visit our Symposium Speakers page

Equally Well Symposium sponsors:

RMIT Social And Global Studies Centre logo
NSW Government logo
Australian Government National Mental Health Commission
CSU logo
Quit Victoria
eMHprac logo
VIC Health logo
Queensland Govt logo