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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
DAY 1 Wednesday 11 February 2015, 9 am – 5.30 pm
8:00am
Registration, arrival tea and coffee
9:00am
Welcome and Opening address (TBA)
9: 40am
Opening Keynote Address – A/Prof Kevin Pottie, Associate Professor & Physician,
Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology & Community Medicine, University of
Ottawa, Canada. Scientist, Bruyere Research Institute, University of Ottawa.
“More than Good Intentions: Evidence Based Guidelines, Checklists and e-Learning to
Improve Outcomes for Migrant Populations”
10:10am
MORNING TEA
Concurrent Oral Presentation Sessions
10: 30am
– 11:15am
ORAL SESSION:A1
SOCIAL DETERMINANTS
OF MIGRATION HEALTH
(OP1 – OP3)
LYGON ROOM
Chair: Dr Anne-Bunde
Birouste
ORAL SESSION:A2
REDUCING MIGRATIONRELATED
INEQUALITIES
(OP4 – OP6)
RATHDOWNE ROOM
Chair: Prof Andre
Renzaho
ORAL SESSION:A3
REDUCING REFUGEE/
ASYLUM SEEKERRELATED INEQUALITIES
(OP7 – OP9)
BOUVERIE ROOM
Chair: Dr I-Hao-Cheng
Oral presentations within each session
A1: SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF MIGRATION HEALTH (OP1 – OP3)
10.30 am10.45am
OP1: Comparison of general health status, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and fruit and
vegetable intake between the immigrant Pakistani population in The Netherlands and the
local Amsterdam population
Qaisar Raza, Mary Nicolaou, Henriëtte Dijkshoorn and Jacob Seidell
10.45am – OP2: Becoming Amai (mother) in a foreign Land: The lived experience of Zimbabwean
women in Melbourne, Australia
11.00am
Sandra Benza & Pranee Liamputtong
11.00am 11.15am
OP3: ‘My husband was the interpreter’: Afghan families and health professional’s
experiences of language services during pregnancy, labour and birth
Jane Yelland Elisha Riggs, Josef Szwarc, Sue Casey, Philippa Duell-Piening, Donna
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Chesters, Sayed Wahidi, Fatema Fouladi, Stephanie Brown
A2: REDUCING MIGRATION-RELATED INEQUALITIES (OP4 – OP6)
10.30 am10.45am
OP4:Improving health and understanding loneliness of older Chinese immigrants
Tess Tsindos
10.45am – OP5:Healthtalkonline Australia: immigration, ageing and health
Victoria Team, Kath Ryan, Kayli Wild, Jaqueline Tudball, Lawurrpa Maypilama, Lorraine
11.00am
Smith
11.00am 11.15am
OP6: Cultural Variance in Respect to the Significance of Social Harmony and Professional
Impartiality when Using an interpreter in English-Japanese Cross-linguistic Medical
Encounters
Nami Matsumoto
A3: REDUCING REFUGEE/ ASYLUM SEEKER- RELATED INEQUALITIES (OP7 – OP9)
10.30 am10.45am
OP7: An innovative model to address the health needs of asylum seekers and refugees:
forging links between primary and tertiary care.
Jacquie McBride, Rose Chapman, Andrew Block
10.45am – OP8: Improving access to specialist services for refugees and asylum seekers using outreach
infectious diseases clinics.
11.00am
NJ Chaves, TR Schulz, BA Biggs
11.00am 11.15am
OP9: The ASRC’s Complex Case Team: A holistic approach responding to the mental health
and support needs of asylum seekers in the context of the Australian government’s punitive
asylum seeker policies.
Sherrine Clark, Sarah Levings, Jamine Loueslati, Cameron McDonald
11:15am –
12:30pm
ORAL SESSION:B1
REFUGEES & ASYLUM
SEEKERS’ HEALTH
(OP10 – OP14)
LYGON ROOM
Chair: Dr Paul Douglas
ORAL SESSION:B2
HEALTH
COMMUNICATION,
HEALTH LITERACY &
MIGRANT
COMMUNITIES
(OP15 – OP19)
RATHDOWNE ROOM
Chair: Dr Julie Green
ORAL SESSION:B3
REFUGEE & ASYLUM
SEEKERS’
RESETTLEMENT
(OP20 – OP24)
BOUVERIE ROOM
Chair: A/Prof Kevin Pottie
Oral presentations within each session
B1: REFUGEES & ASYLUM SEEKERS’ HEALTH (OP10 – OP14)
11.15 11.30
OP10: Royal Australasian College of Physicians position statement: Refugee and asylum
seeker health.
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Georgia Paxton Johnston V, Cherian S, Ofner E, Francis J, Block AA, Smith MM, Napthali
K and Zwi K
11.30 11.45
11.4512.00
OP11:Child development and settlement: a longitudinal study of refugee children
A/Prof Karen Zwi, Lisa Woodland, Dr Sue Woolfenden, Prof Katrina Williams
OP12:Health of refugees and asylum seekers in Australia: an overview of the empirical
research literature
Selvarajah S, Dunt D, Marella M, Hewitt AW
12.0012.15
OP13:Learning problems among children of refugee background: a scoping review of
prevalence, risk and protective factors
Hamish Graham and Ripudaman Minhas
12.1512.30
OP14:Screening and early engagement in health care: improving primary health care
outcomes for newly arrived refugees
Sandy Eagar, Mitchell Smith
B2: HEALTH COMMUNICATION, HEALTH LITERACY & MIGRANT COMMUNITIES
(OP15 – OP19)
11.15 11.30
OP15:Health literacy as an intervention to address systems based inequalities
Michal Morris and Lucio Naccarella
11.30 11.45
OP16:Access to qualified interpreters and quality health information in community
languages are the key to maintaining good health for patients with low English proficiency.
Eddie Micallef
11.4512.00
OP17:Contraceptive technologies, health literacy and information seeking among immigrant
women in Melbourne
Victoria Team, Andrea Whittaker, Lenore Manderson, Adele Murdolo, Regina Quiazon,
Pauline Gwatirisa,
Michal Morris, Jane Wicks
12.0012.15
OP18:Exploring health literacy barriers and enablers in three CALD communities
Rhonda Garad, Sarity Dodson, Victoria Kalapac, Amanda Deeks, Janet Michelmore AO,
Richard Osborne
12.1512.30
OP19:Health information needs of families having a baby in a new country: perspectives of
Afghan families and service providers
Philippa Duell-Piening, Elisha Riggs, Jane Yelland, Sue Casey, Josef Szwarc, Sayed Wahidi,
Fatema Fouladi, Donna Chesters, Stephanie Brown
B3: REFUGEE & ASYLUM SEEKERS’ RESETTLEMENT (OP20 – OP24)
11.15 11.30
OP20:Health impact of immigration detention: the experience of Médecins sans Frontières in
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Greece
An Huyskens, Apostolos Veizis, Barbara Maccagno, Aurélie Ponthieu, Ioanna Kostioni
11.30 11.45
11.4512.00
12.0012.15
12.1512.30
OP21:Unpredictability, invisibility and vulnerability: Unaccompanied asylum-seeking
minors and their journey to Australia
Ignacio Correa-Velez, Mariana Nardone, Katharine Knoetze
OP22:A Model of Religiosity and the Refugee Experience: Shifting Typologies at Each
Stage of the Refugee Journey
Susan Ennis
OP23:Karen matrilineages in transition
Rachel Cleary, Mark Brough, Robert Schweitzer
OP24:Multiple identity construction in repeated migration contexts
Lena Belin
12:30pm 1:15pm
LUNCH
1:15PM2:15 PM
POSTER SESSION
Poster presentations within themes
REFUGEES ASYLUM SEEKERS &INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS (P01 – P06)
P01:Resilience and adaptation in refugees and asylum seekers
Michael Keem, Erminia Colucci, Harry Minas.
P02:The Needs of Refugee and Asylum Seeking Children in Thailand
Paradee Thoresen, Angela Fielding
P03:Health and socio-cultural experiences of refugee women: An integrative review
Sara Shishehgar, Michelle DiGiacomo, Leila Gholizadeh, Patricia Mary Davidson.
P04:The intentional engagement of refugee community in employment and sport programs
accelerates better settlement and integration which reduced inequality.
William Abur, A/Professor Bob Steward and Dr Peter Ochieng
P05:An interactive pain education tool for enhancing the pain treatment of people from
refugee backgrounds.
Truong D, Block M, Lester Jones
P06: The problem of internally displaced persons in Jos, Nigeria: implication for peace and
security in the area
Talatu Buba Bello
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GOOD PRACTICE IN HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY (P07-P08)
P07: My Health in Shepparton – A local approach to health service access
Mellisa Silaga, Jessica Orr
P08: Afghan Community Engagement (ACE) Project South Eastern Melbourne Medicare
Local (SEMML)
Anna Brazier Sayed Wahidi, Sahema Saberi, I-Hao Cheng, Larissa Popowski, Mitchell
Bowden
SOCIAL DETERMINANTS & EPIDEMIOLOGY OF MIGRATION HEALTH (P09-P13)
P09:Factors that affect migrant Employability and Mental Health in Australia
Suangi Karunaratne, Lata Satyen
P10: Healthy Minds: Perceptions of Mental Health Among South Sudanese Australians
Melinda Woodhouse, Anthony Zwi
P11:Assessment of vitamin D and its association with cardiovascular disease risk factors in
an adult migrant population: An audit of patient records at a Community Health Centre in
Melbourne, Australia
Thilanga Ruwanpathirana, Christopher M. Reid , Alice J. Owen , David P.S. Fong, Usha
Gowda, Andre M.N. Renzaho
P12:Quality of life and associated factors among diabetic patients in urban setting, Sri Lanka
Nethmini Thenuwara, Christopher M. Reid, Pushpa Fonseka, Andre M. N. Renzaho
P13:The Health and wellbeing of immigrants in the Australian state of Victoria who speak a
language other than English.
Alison Markwick, Zahid Ansari.
PLENARY SESSIONS
2.15pm
Dr Anne Bunde-Birouste, Founder and CEO, Football United, Australia
“Football United: Creating Chances for Youth newly arrived in Australia”
2.45pm
Prof Andrew Markus, Pratt Foundation Research Professor of Jewish Civilisation, Monash
University, Australia
“The Australian context: immigration, multiculturalism and social cohesion”
3.15pm
AFTERNOON TEA
3.30pm
PANEL DISCUSSION
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At the intersections: towards a gendered understanding of health and migration
(Multicultural women’s health group)
Panellists:
Dr Adele Murdolo, Executive Director, Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health,
Melbourne, Australia
Dr Ndungi wa Mungai, Lecturer, Social Work and Human Services, Charles Sturt
University, New South Wales, Australia
Dr Maria Pallotta Chiarolli, Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Development,
Deakin University, Victoria, Australia
A/Prof Helen Meekosha, Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, University of New
South Wales, Australia
5.00pm5.30pm
Closing Keynote Address – Dr Anne Bunde-Birouste
DAY 2 Thursday 12 February 2015, 9 am – 5.30 pm
8:00am
Registration, arrival tea and coffee
9:00am
Opening address - Ms Liana Allan, CEO Migration Alliance & Sponsor of session on
Immigration Policy
9:15am
Dr Paul Douglas, Chief Medical Officer & Global Manager Health Department of
Immigration and Border Protection, Australia
“Migration medical assessments – A Mechanism for Global Public Health Benefit?”
9:45am
Prof Mike Toole, Deputy Director (International Program Strategy), Burnet Institute,
Australia
“The health consequences of forced migration”
10:15am
MORNING TEA
Concurrent Oral Presentation sessions
10: 35am
–
11:50am
ORAL SESSION:C1
IMMIGRATION
POLICY AND ITS
IMPACT ON
MIGRATION: GLOBAL
AND AUSTRALIAN
ORAL SESSION:C2
REFUGEE HEALTH
SERVICE DELIVERY
(OP30-OP34)
RATHDOWNE ROOM
Chair: Prof Mike Toole
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ORAL SESSION:C3
IMPACT OF MIGRATION
ON EMPLOYMENT
(OP35-OP39)
BOUVERIE ROOM
Chair: Prof Andre Renzaho
CONTEXTS
(OP25 –OP29)
LYGON ROOM
Chair: Ms Liana Allan
Oral presentations within each session
C1: IMMIGRATION POLICY AND ITS IMPACT ON MIGRATION: GLOBAL AND
AUSTRALIAN CONTEXTS (OP25 – OP29)
10.35 –
10.50
OP25:Loathsome diseases: The Policy, Legal, and Social Ramifications of the Health Test in
Immigration Law and the Case for Reform
Christopher Levingston
10.5011.05
OP26:Migration and integration policy in Czechia
Eva Janska
11.0511.20
OP27: The Migration of Women Domestic Workers from Sri Lanka: Protecting the Rights
of Children Left Behind
Rasika Jayasuriya, Brian Opeskin
11.2011.35
OP28:Australian Immigration Policy and the Economy
Henry Sherrell
11.3511.50
OP29:Australia, Migration and HIV: policy challenges
Michael Frommer & Jill Sergeant
C2: REFUGEE HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY (OP30-OP34)
10.35 –
10.50
OP30: A needs analysis of catch-up immunisation in refugee and asylum seeker communities
in Victoria, Australia
Georgia Paxton, Pete Spink , Sue Casey, Hamish Graham
10.5011.05
OP31: The importance of community engagement in primary health care: the case of Afghan
refugees
Sayed Wahidi, I-Hao Cheng, Shiva Vasi, Sophia Samuel
11.0511.20
OP32: Enabling the voices of young people from refugee backgrounds to inform health care
delivery and service planning.
Paula Peterson, Ignacio Correa-Velez, Margaret Kay, Donata Sackey
11.2011.35
OP33: “We don’t have the capacity”: insights from policy advisors, planners and managers
on the challenges and opportunities in evaluating the delivery of services and programs to
refugees
Nilakshi Gunatillaka, I-Hao Cheng, Joanne Enticott, Sayed Wahidi, Mark Harris, Kevin
Pottie, Crystal Russell,Grant Russell
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11.3511.50
OP34:Communities of Practice for Community health counsellors working with refugee
background clients: A pilot project
Conrad Aikin & Adrian Harris
C3: IMPACT OF MIGRATION ON EMPLOYMENT (OP35-OP39)
10.35 –
10.50
OP35: Ghanaian immigrants and South African workers in the informal sector of Mthatha:
perceptions, realities and associated factors
Becky A. Niba, Prof Longo-Mbenza
10.5011.05
OP36: Falling through the cracks? An analysis of health and safety resources for migrant
workers in Australia
Agnieszka Kosny & Amy Allen
11.0511.20
OP37: Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria (ECCV) advocacy for improving
workforce participation for people from culturally diverse backgrounds
Sam Afra JP and Irene Bouzo
11.2011.35
OP38:Satisfying employment as a social determinant of health: migration and gender
inequalities in Australia
Monica O’Dwyer
11.3511.50
OP39: Perceived health inequalities and workplace discrimination of immigrants: Czechia
case study
Dagmar Dzúrová and Dušan Drbohlav
ORAL SESSION:D1
ORAL SESSION:D2
ORAL SESSION:D3
11:50am12:35pm
NON-COMMUNICABLE
DISEASE AMONG
MIGRANTS
(OP40 – OP42)
LYGON ROOM
Chair: Prof Andre
Renzaho
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF
MIGRATION HEALTH,
AND BURDEN OF
DISEASES
(OP43 – OP45)
RATHDOWNE ROOM
Chair: Dr Georgie Paxton
INTERVENTIONS TO
REDUCE MIGRATIONRELATED
INEQUALITIES
(OP46 – OP48)
BOUVERIE ROOM
Chair: Prof Andrew
Markus
Oral presentations within each session
D1: NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE AMONG MIGRANTS (OP40 – OP42)
11.5012.05
OP40: Effective participation in prevention of migrant childhood obesity: Findings from the
Community Readiness Interviews in Victoria
Sheila Cyril, Julie Green, Andre Renzaho
12.05-
OP41:Socio-cultural factors and perceptions associated with type 2 diabetes among sub8
12.20
Saharan African migrants in Melbourne
Ayuba Issaka, Greer Lamaro and Andre Renzaho
12.2012.35
OP42:The Australian Haemoglobinopathy Registry: a new national resource to describe the
epidemiology, treatment and clinical outcomes for patients with thalassaemia and sickle cell
disease
Ri Scarborough, Gemma Crighton, Merrole Cole-Sinclair, Erica Wood, Joy Ho
D2: EPIDEMIOLOGY OF MIGRATION HEALTH, AND BURDEN OF DISEASES
(OP43 – OP45)
11.5012.05
OP43:Prevalence of Helicobacter Pylori infection and association with child growth patterns
in a refugee cohort attending the Migrant Health Service, South Australia
Razlyn Abdul Rahim , Jill Benson
12.0512.20
OP44:American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis risk among internal and cross-border migrants in
an endemic area of the Peruvian Amazon
Christine Murto, Raquel Rangel Cesario, Palmira Ventosilla, Esther Schelling
12.2012.35
OP45: Prevalence of dyslipidaemia and micronutrient deficiencies among newly arrived
Afghan refugees in rural Australia: a cross-sectional study
Mehdi Sanati Pour, Surabhi Kumble, Sarah Hanieh, Beverley-Ann Biggs
D3: INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE MIGRATION-RELATED INEQUALITIES (OP46 – OP48)
11.5012.05
OP46: The role of family in Pacific migrant participation in physical activity and sport
Rosaline Michelle Schaaf
12.0512.20
OP47: Newly arrived young people of refugee and migrant backgrounds: an innovative,
school-based partnership program to improve health and learning outcomes
Lisa Woodland, Karen Zwi, Mellisa Kang, Chris Elliot, Astrid Perry, and Sandy Eagar
12.2012.35
OP48: For the community, by the community, with the community: An evaluation of
the Good Start Health Program for Maori and Pacific Islander Children.
Lisa Vaughan, Nicola Fa’avale, Sebastien Brignano, Inez Manu-Sione, Lisa Schubert
12:35pm
– 1:15pm
1:15pm 2.15pm
LUNCH
POSTER SESSIONS
Poster presentations within each theme
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HEALTH SERVICE UTILISATION AMONG MIGRANTS (P14-P19)
P14: Challenges to providing pre-travel care for travellers visiting friends and relatives: an
audit of a specialist travel medicine clinic
Kate Rowe, Nadia J Chaves, Karin Leder
P15:Contraceptive practices and induced abortions status among internal migrant women in
Guangzhou, China
Jiazhi Zeng Guanyang Zou, Li Ling
P16: Self-reported health and service utilisation among migrants working in small- to
medium sized enterprises in Guangdong, China
Li Ling, Guanyang Zou, Zhi Zeng, Wen Chen
P17: Supporting individuals living with HIV from culturally and linguistically diverse
(CALD) backgrounds ….good outcomes and challenges in service delivery.
Maureen Plain
P18: Developing Local Solutions: Enabling access to HIV/AIDS care for HIV positive
migrants
Sue Porter, Bianca Parsons, Joanna Mesure, Michael Boyle
P19: Are migrants likely to undergo increased Vitamin D testing in Australia? Findings from
a Victorian primary health care service audit
Usha Gowda, Ben J. Smith , Anita E. Wluka , David P.S. Fong, Ambika Kaur, Andre M.N.
Renzaho
SOCIAL DETERMINANTS & BURDEN OF DISEASE AMONG MIGRANTS (P20-P23)
P20:A forgotten minority: The experience of migrant women living with HIV in Australia
Carol El-Hayek and Karalyn McDonald
P21: Ethnic and socio-economic disparities in oral health outcomes and quality of life among
Sri Lankan preschoolers
Vajira Nanayakkara, André Renzaho, Brian Oldenburg and Lilani Ekanayake
P22: The Study of the Family Relationship, Child-Parenting Styles and Life Adaptation of
New Female Citizens in Taiwan: In-depth interviews
Chia-Hua Hsioa, Lee-Min Wei, Ming-Chu Chen, Chien-Ju, Lan
P23: The Study of the Family Relationship, Child-Parenting Styles and Life Adaptation of
New Female Citizens in Taiwan: Group Counselling
Lee-Min Wei, Ming-Chu Chen, Chien-Ju, Lan
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PERCEIVED DISCRIMINATION SOCIAL STIGMA & MENTAL HEALTH (P24-P27)
P24: “Every time the law looks at them, they look at them the wrong way”: Interactions with
police among substance-using African refugee youth
Danielle Horyniak, Peter Higgs, Shelley Cogger, Paul Dietze
P25: Immigration and crime: Do Sudanese immigrants bring more crimes to Australia?
Peter Ajak, Atemthii Dau
P26: Prevalence of potentially traumatic events, depression, alcohol use, and social network
supports among Chinese migrants: An epidemiological study in Guangzhou, China
Wen Chen, Brian J. Hall, Joseph D Tucker, Li Ling
P27: Burned Alive: Myths of Rescue
Therese Taylor
2.15pm3.15pm
2.15pm
PLENARY SESSIONS
Prof Andre Renzaho, Professor of Humanitarian and Development Studies, University of
Western Sydney, Australia
“The Healthy migrant effect and its policy implications: under-estimation of migrants’
health issues and the salmon bias hypothesis”
2.45pm
Dr I-Hao Cheng, Adjunct Refugee Health Research Fellow, Southern Academic Primary
Care Research Unit (Monash University, South Eastern Melbourne Medicare Local
(SEMML), Monash Health).Refugee Health Program Manager, SEMML. General
Practitioner, Hill Medical Services.
“National priorities for refugee primary health care in Australia”
3.15pm
AFTERNOON TEA
3.30pm
PANEL DISCUSSION
Priorities for Refugee and Asylum Seeker Health Research in Australia
Chair:
Dr I-Hao Cheng, Adjunct Refugee Health Research Fellow, Southern Academic Primary
CareResearch Unit (Monash University, South Eastern Melbourne Medicare Local
(SEMML), Monash Health), Refugee Health Program Manager, SEMML, General
Practitioner, Hill Medical Services.
Panellists:
Dr Paul Douglas, Chief Medical Officer & Global Manager Health, Department of
Immigration and Border Protection
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Dr Georgia Paxton, Head, Immigrant Health and Consultant Paediatrician, The Royal
Children’s Hospital Melbourne, Chair, Victorian Refugee Health Network.
A/Prof Christine Philips, Medical Director, Companion House, Canberra. Associate
Professor, Social Foundations of Medicine, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment,
Australian National University. ACT representative, Refugee Health Network of Australia.
A/Prof Kevin Pottie Associate Professor and physician, Departments of Family Medicine and
Epidemiology & Community Medicine, University of Ottawa. Scientist, Bruyere Research
Institute, University of Ottawa. WHO Guideline Review Committee, Canadian Task Force on
Preventive Health Care. GRADE Methods Working Group.
Dr Elisha Riggs Research Fellow, Healthy Mothers Healthy Families Research Group at the
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Events Coordinator, Researchers for Asylum Seekers
Mr Josef Szwarc, Manager, Policy and Research, Victorian Foundation for Survivors of
Torture
Dr Sayed Wahidi, Research Assistant and Cultural Advisor, Southern Academic Primary
Care Research Unit (Monash University, South Eastern Melbourne Medicare Local
(SEMML), Monash Health). Refugee Health Program Program Officer, SEMML
5.00pm –
5.30pm
Closing keynote address – A/Prof Kevin Pottie
7.00pm11.00pm
CONFERENCE GALA DINNER
(dinner tickets available with conference manager)
DAY 3 Friday 13 February 2015, 9 am – 5.00 pm
8:00am
Registration, arrival tea and coffee
9:00am
Dr Julie Green, Executive Director, Raising Children Network Ltd, Victoria, Australia
“Developing and sharing reliable parenting information for families from culturally and
linguistically diverse backgrounds: important in anyone’s language”
9: 30am
Prof Graeme Hugo, ARC Australian Professorial Fellow, Professor of Geography &
Director of the Australian Population & Migration Research Centre, University of Adelaide,
Australia
“Environmentally Induced Migration: Climate change and its impact on migration”
10:00am
MORNING TEA
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Concurrent Oral Presentation sessions
10.20 am
-11.05am
ORAL SESSION:E1
ORAL SESSION:E2
ORAL SESSION:E3
SETTLEMENT OF
REFUGEES (OP49OP51)
LYGON ROOM
Chair: Dr Paul Douglas
CLIMATE CHANGE AND
IMMIGRATION
(OP52-OP54)
RATHDOWNE ROOM
Chair: Prof Graeme Hugo
GOOD PRACTICE IN
HEALTH SERVICE
DELIVERY : REDUCING
INEQUALITIES
(OP55-OP57)
BOUVERIE ROOM
Chair: Dr Elisha Riggs
Oral presentations within each session
E1: SETTLEMENT OF REFUGEES (OP49-OP51)
10.2010.35
OP49: The strength within: The role of refugee community-based organisations in settlement
and a case study of the Association of Hazaras in Victoria
Louise Olliff, Zamera Shariffie
10.3510.50
OP50: Resettlement experiences of former refugee youth in Western Australia: using photo
narratives to showcase resilience
Sara Bayati, Jaya Earnest, Sonal Kantaria,Sandra C Thompson
10.5011.05
OP51: How perceived social attitudes influence the way young Middle-Eastern refugees
adapt and form connections with their new social environment
Pranee Liamputtong, Hala Kurban
E2: CLIMATE CHANGE AND IMMIGRATION (OP52-OP54)
10.2010.35
OP52: The effects of climate change, El Niño, extreme meteorology, winter season, and
emigration on the epidemic, trends, and projection of malaria in the arid highlands of eastern
cape province from South Africa: 2000 – 2025
Longo – Mbenza B , Lokotola LCD , M.D.V Nakin , Rozenho A, Simba N , Ngatu R, Mbula
MM, Divengi Nzambi JP, Kendjo E, Wumba DR, Yobi D
10.3510.50
OP53: Levels of social trust two years after the 2011 Queensland floods: The experiences of
men from refugee backgrounds
Ignacio Correa-Velez, Celia McMichael, Sandra M Gifford, Augustine Conteh
10.5011.05
OP54: Housing and its implications for social development and disadvantage: experiences of
rural to urban young migrants in Hanoi, Vietnam
Thao Dang
E3: GOOD PRACTICE IN HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY : REDUCING INEQUALITIES
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(OP55-OP57)
10.2010.35
OP55: Does research evidence reflect culturally diverse practice in the management of
chronic pain?
Bernadette Brady, Veljanova I, Chipchase L
10.3510.50
OP56: Pain and Movement Reasoning Model: A tool for educating health and social care
professionals about the multiple influences and determinants of pain in survivors of torture
and trauma.
Lester Jones, Block M
10.5011.05
OP57: Branching Out: Exploring innovative ways to support Refugees and Asylum Seekers
experiencing pain
Melanie Block, Carlon P, Dang McDonald K, Jones LE, Dentry T, Martinez Cruz M
11.05am12.35pm
ORAL SESSION:F1
ORAL SESSION:F2
EVIDENCE FOR
EVIDENCE FOR
CULTURAL
CULTURAL
COMPETENCY &
COMPETENCY &
GUIDELINES TO
GUIDELINES TO REDUCE
REDUCE MIGRATIONREFUGEE/ASYLUM
RELATED
SEEKER -RELATED
INEQUALITIES
INEQUALITIES
(OP58-OP63)
(OP64-OP69)
LYGON ROOM
RATHDOWNE ROOM
Chair: Prof Andre Renzaho
Chair: Dr I-Hao Cheng
ORAL SESSION:F3
HIV AMONG
MIGRANTS:
CHALLENGES AND
OPPORTUNITIES for
POLICY
(OP70-OP75)
BOUVERIE ROOM
Chair: Prof Mike Toole
Oral presentations within each session
F1: EVIDENCE FOR CULTURAL COMPETENCY & GUIDELINES TO REDUCE
MIGRATION-RELATED INEQUALITIES (OP58-OP63)
11.0511.20
OP58: Competing for attention: Engaging public health professionals in multicultural health
matters
Ruth N Lopez
11.2011.35
OP59: Using an Equity lens to provide high quality and safe health care:
Lidia Horvat
11.3511.50
OP60: An organisational approach to reducing migration related health inequalities
Astrid Perry &Lisa Woodland
11.5012.05
OP61: A community development approach to support the emotional wellbeing of new
mothers from Afghanistan living in Melbourne, Australia
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Alana Russo, Belinda Crockett, Stanley Luchters, Belinda Lewis, and Andrew Joyce
12.0512.20
OP62: The National Community Hubs Program in Australia: Using citizen-centric access
points for the coordinated delivery of services through a place based approach
Tony Fry
12.2012.35
OP63: Establishing components of cultural competence health care models to better cater for
the needs of migrants with disability: A systematic review
Sarah Jamison-Olaussen, Andre Renzaho
F2: EVIDENCE FOR CULTURAL COMPETENCY & GUIDELINES TO REDUCE
REFUGEE/ASYLUM SEEKER -RELATED INEQUALITIES (OP64-OP69)
11.0511.20
OP64: Asylum Seeker Integrated Healthcare Pathway – South Eastern Melbourne
Miriam Decker , I-Hao Cheng, Fotini Strongylos, Jacqui McBride, Hannah Jakubenko,
Andrew Block
11.2011.35
OP65: Understanding primary mental health care access and utilisation among young Hazara
refugees living in Melbourne
Sahema Saberi ,Caroline Wachtler,Phyllis Min-Yu Lau
11.3511.50
OP66: Asylum Seeker Health Orientation and Triage Model for Northern and Western
Metropolitan Melbourne
Jamad Hersi, Lindy Marlow and Bernice Murphy, Sue Casey, May Maloney and Peter Spink
11.5012.05
OP67: Addressing social determinants of asylum seeker health and wellbeing through
meaningful engagement: A volunteering initiative in southeast Melbourne, Australia.
Rob Koch, Jacquie McBride, Alana Russo, and Zoe Peltekis
12.0512.20
OP68: “We are all scared for the baby”: Promoting access to dental services for refugee
background families during pregnancy
Elisha Riggs, Jane Yelland, Ramini Shankumar, Nicky Kilpatrick
12.2012.35
OP69: Better primary health care for refugees: a systematic review to identify tools to
evaluate the performance of programs and services.
Nilakshi Gunatillaka, Grant Russell, I-Hao Cheng, Joanne Enticott, Sayed Wahidi, Mark
Harris, Kevin Pottie, Crystal Russell
F3: HIV AMONG MIGRANTS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR POLICY (OP70OP75)
11.0511.20
OP70: HIV notifications among people born overseas: issues and responses
Jill Sergeant
11.20-
OP71:Positive Living in a Predominantly Muslim Society – Case Study of Women Living
15
11.35
with HIV in Bangladesh.
Catherine Louise Street Suzanne Belton, Nafisa lira Haq and Mohammad Mostaq Pervez
11.3511.50
OP72: HIV and Resettlement, qualitative research undertaken with positive individuals from
culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds living in Melbourne, Australia.
Maureen Plain, Deborah Zion
11.5012.05
OP73: HIV and Mobility in Australia: A Roadmap for Action
Graham Brown, Roanna Lobo, Gemma Crawford
12.0512.20
OP74: Patients’ mobility guiding provision of HIV care: lessons learnt from the Musina
model of care
Gilles Van Cutsem, Marc Biot, Helen Bygrave, Avril Benoit, Aurélie Ponthieu
12.2012.35
OP75:Researching marginalisation: Reflections from a research study with people who were
seeking asylum and living with HIV
Lois Orton, Jane Griffiths, Heather Waterman
12.35pm 1.20pm
1.20PM
1.50pm
LUNCH
Melbourne Declaration on “Reducing migration-related inequalities and improving the
wellbeing of asylum seekers” – Prof Andre Renzaho
WORKSHOP
Australian Red Cross – Working in the migration space
Chair: Lis de Vries
Presenters: Jennie Bunney, Megan Goodwin, Ann Clark
3.00pm
Afternoon tea
Concurrent oral presentations
3.15pm to
4.45pm
ORAL SESSION:G1
ORAL SESSION:G2
ORAL SESSION:G3
GOOD PRACTICE IN
HEALTH SERVICE
DELIVERY
(OP76-OP81)
LYGON ROOM
Chair: Dr Elisha Riggs
PERCEIVED
DISCRIMINATION,
SOCIAL STIGMA &
MENTAL HEALTH
(OP82-OP87)
RATHDOWNE ROOM
Chair: Dr Lata Satyen
EVIDENCE FOR
CULTURAL COMPETENCY
& REDUCING
MIGRATION-RELATED
INEQUALITIES
(OP88-OP92)
BOUVERIE ROOM
Chair: Prof Andrew Markus
Oral Presentations within each theme
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G1: GOOD PRACTICE IN HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY (OP76-OP81)
3.15-3.30
OP76: Equity Focussed Health Impact Assessment (EFHIA) of Healthy Together Victoria
(HTV)
Lang Baulch
3.30-3.45
OP77:Hospital Tours Program
Jessica Orr, Mellisa Silaga
3.45-4.00
OP78: Tried and true: successful sexual health promotion in CALD populations through
community led peer education
Jane Howard, Hilary Veale, Alison Coelho, Samuel Muchoki, Carol El-Hayek
4.00-4.15
OP79: Access to reproductive health care among Sri Lankan-born people living in Australia:
Results from the Understanding Fertility Management in Contemporary Australia survey
Sara Holton, Nilaweera I, Kirkman M, Rowe H, Bayly C, Jordan L, McBain J, McNamee K,
Sinnott V, Fisher J
4.15-4.30
OP80: Towards an evidence base for creative therapies: evaluation of a school-based
intervention for young people from refugee backgrounds
Rosalind Quinlan, Robert Schweitzer, Nigar Khawaja, Karen Dooley, Lyn Vromans, Jane
Griffin
4.30 –
4.45
OP81: Is discrimination institutionalized? Planning for Equal Access to Health Care for
Australians with Low English Proficiency
Emiliano Zucchi
G2: PERCEIVED DISCRIMINATION, SOCIAL STIGMA & MENTAL HEALTH (OP82-OP87)
3.15-3.30
OP82: Psychosocial Issues in the Lives of Women who have entered Australia under the
Women-at-Risk Visa Category
Robert Schweitzer, Lyn Vromans, Mark Brough, Ignacio Correa-Velez, Mary Asic-Kobe,
Caroline Lenette and Louise Farrell
3.30-3.45
OP83: Sudanese encounters with authority: Can past encounters influence current responses
Marg Liddell, John Whyte, Diana Johns
3.45-4.00
OP84: Mental health status and work environment among workers in small and medium
sized enterprises (SMEs) in Guangdong, China ----A cross sectional survey"
Li Ling, Zhi Zeng, Yan Guo, Liming Lu, Lu Han, Wen Chen
4.00-4.15
OP85: A Critique of Migrant Youth Crime Statistics in Melbourne: Do immigrant youth of
Sudanese descent commit violent crimes more than any other in Australian society?
Atemthii D. Dau
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4.15-4.30
OP86: News media reporting on substance use among people of African ethnicity in three
Australian states, 2003-2013
Danielle Horyniak , Megan Lim, Peter Higgs, Paul Dietze
G3: EVIDENCE FOR CULTURAL COMPETENCY & REDUCING MIGRATION-RELATED
INEQUALITIES (OP87-OP92)
3.15-3.30
OP87: Cultural competence education: improving health outcomes?
Lidia Horvat, Dell Horey, Panayiota Romios, John Kis-Rigo
3.30-3.45
OP88: Enabling access to sexual health services for Asian sex workers
Suzanne Porter, Dawson S, Dobson P, Entwisle G
3.45-4.00
OP89: Health problems, health behaviors and accessibility to health care services of migrant
workers in Thailand: A systematic review
Lawang Wannarat, Sunsern Rachanee, Dungmung Nichakan
4.00-4.15
OP90: Insights from the Building a New Life in Australia study: Initial findings
from the first wave
Ben Edwards, John De Maio, Diana Smart, Michelle Silbert, Rebecca Jenkinson
4.15-4.30
OP91: Humanitarian Migrants: Pathways to wellbeing. Findings from Building a New Life
in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Humanitarian Migrants
Laura Bennetts Kneebone
4.30 -4.45
OP92: The Impact of migration in Health and well-being of Afghan-American Community
in northern California
Younos Farid, Lipson J.G., Smith Valerie, Firling K, Omidian P.A, Omeri A,
Fernandez E, Edward D.B
4.45 -5.00
pm
CLOSING ADDRESS AND PRIZE DISTRIBUTION – Prof Andre Renzaho
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