Multicultural Health Week 2018 Launch: CELEBRATING DIVERSITY

Описание: Mr Stephen Conaty
Director of Population Health, South Western Sydney

Dr Conaty officially kick starts the Multicultural Health Week 2018 Launch event program by welcoming the audience to South Western Sydney and discuss the importance of the theme health literacy in celebrating diversity and health.

Speakers Profile:
Dr Stephen Conaty is a physician with specialist qualifications in public health from Australia and the UK. After medical and hospital training in Sydney he joined the NSW Health Public Health Officer training program from 1995 to 1997. From 1999 to 2007 he worked in the UK in both the NHS and academia including the Public Health Laboratory Service, University College London, and Islington Primary Care Trust. After returning to Australia in 2007, he has worked as Director of the South Western Sydney Area Health Service Public Health Unit, Medical Adviser in the Environmental Health Branch of Health Protection NSW, and Director of the Public Health Unit in South Western Sydney Local Health District.

In March 2017 he was appointed as Director of Population Health in South Western Sydney. He has diverse interests at the intersection of policy, operation and research in communicable diseases, immunisation, environmental health, and the built environment. He has BA, MBBS and Masters in Public Health degrees from the University of Sydney, a Diploma in Applied Epidemiology, and is a fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine.