2013 National Hepatitis Health Promotion Conference

2013 National Hepatitis Health Promotion Conference ‘Breaking through the Barriers’ DRAFT - Conference Program

Day 1 – 14 November 2013 8:30 - 9:00am Registration 9:00 – 11:00am OPENING PLENARY Welcome to Country

Conference welcome and theme overview – Hepatitis Australia President

New Hepatitis C treatments listed on the PBS Presenter: Helen Tyrrell, CEO Hepatitis Australia.

Stigma and discrimination barriers

Hepatitis: WTF? The general public has things on their mind other than your problems. Presenter: Denis Mamo, Executive Creative Director, Ursa Clemenger

Working with Governments: Breaking through the barriers to achieve equitable attention for hepatitis B

Launch of the report of the HBV Epidemiology Mapping Project (5 minutes)

11:00 – 11:30am Morning tea

11:30am – 1:00pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Workshop - Consumer engagement Engaging and educating Barriers and Enablers: Engaging with people in 101 youth about viral hepatitis custodial settings to raise awareness of viral within educational hepatitis settings

4 x 15-minute presentations 4 x 15-minute presentations followed by 30- minute Proposed learning outcomes: followed by 30- minute panel facilitated discussion time  How is ‘community’ defined? discussion on the role of  What are the concepts of education institutions in BBV Drawing them in – a story about health promotion community engagement? prevention storylines  How to develop a community Bruce Cherry, Hepatitis New South Wales engagement strategy Hepatitis C Education Project in a VCAL setting I've got the 'gaol strain' of hep C. What have you Isabella Natale, Hepatitis got? Victoria Fiona Poeder, NSW Users & AIDS Association (NUAA)

Youth as agents of change Sustainably growing hepatitis education in Debbie Nguyen, Cancer custodial settings Council NSW Marg Sutherland, Hepatitis Victoria

Be Smart About Body Art: Koori Prison Outreach Project; Dame Phyllis Frost Age appropriate hepatitis Centre (Melbourne Women’s Prison) awareness and prevention Marg Sutherland, Hepatitis Victoria education for schools John Didlick, ACT Hepatitis Resource Centre

Clean Mods, Safe Bods: Enabling hepatitis C education in high schools Shannon Wright & Nicole Taylor, Hepatitis South Australia

1:00 – 2.00pm Lunch

2:00 – 3:30pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS Barriers and enablers: Engaging with Barriers and enablers: Barriers and enablers: Engaging with harder to priority populations around hepatitis Engaging and educating reach and emerging populations who are living B young people about viral with, or at risk of viral hepatitis hepatitis 4 x 15-minute presentations followed by 4 x 15-minute presentations 4 x 15-minute presentations followed by 30-minute 30-minute facilitated discussion time followed by 30- minute facilitated discussion time facilitated discussion time The hepatitis B bear: Novel patient The hepatitis B story – the development of a orientated information enhances Links-to-learning hepatitis C resource for health workers to use in discussion patient understandings of the phases of workshops two years on: with clients who have low health literacy hepatitis B evolving needs of young Gabrielle Bennett, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne Dr Miriam Levy, Department of people in schools and other Gastroenterology and Hepatology, settings Education without limitation and the use of Liverpool Hospital Sonam Paljor, Multicultural Telehealth HIV and Hepatitis Service Lana Pocock, Hepatitis Queensland The Jade Fan Project: Be Aware, Be tested, B Immunised” Play the blood rule SecC: Tackling sexual transmission of hepatitis C Louise Maher, Nepean Blue Mountains & Taryn Gaudion, Hepatitis WA among HIV+ gay men Western Sydney Local Health Districts David Pieper, Hepatitis New South Wales NSW Going Viral Hepatitis B Positive Program – utilising Shae Clayton-Freedman, the health behaviour framework in Hepatitis NSW community engagement to change behaviours Beliefs, emotions and the Mamta Porwal, Cancer Council NSW role of attitudes in engaging and educating young people Breaking down the barriers for hepatitis about hepatitis C B positive speakers Magdalena Sotiroski, Helen Tyrrell, Hepatitis Australia Kimberley Mental Health and Drug Service

3:30 – 4:00pm Afternoon Tea

4:00pm - 4:30pm Speed networking session 7:pm Conference Dinner

Day 2 – 15th November 2013 7:30 – 8:55am Navigating the new hepatitis C treatment landscape The aims of the breakfast session is for delegates to learn about the newest hepatitis C treatments boceprevir and telaprevir in terms of; how the drugs work, treatment programs, as well as gain insight into someone’s personal experience of undergoing treatment. Delegates will also gain an understanding of what the future of hepatitis C treatment looks like.

9:00 – 10:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS Workshop – The truth about social Stigma and discrimination: Barriers and enablers: Engaging and working media for health awareness How do we break through with CALD communities this barrier to empower individuals and create supportive environments 4 x 15-minute presentations 4 x 15-minute presentations followed by 30-minute followed by 30-minute facilitated discussion time facilitated discussion time Multilingual resources, what’s the big deal? Just Stigma, discrimination, and translate an English one! people who inject drugs Marina Suarez, Multicultural HIV and Hepatitis overcoming the barrier Service Fiona Poeder, NSW Users & AIDS Association Culturally appropriate health promotion – building the evidence base ‘Change of our lives’ – a Eliisa Fok, Cancer Council Victoria Vietnamese community film to reduce hepatitis B stigma Successes and challenges in working with the and discrimination Korean community in Sydney Debbie Nguyen, Cancer Mina Kim, Multicultural HIV & Hepatitis Service Council NSW Educating Burmese refugees about viral hepatitis HepC Australasia- breaking Mekita Vanderheyde, Ethnic Communities Council of through the barriers Queensland Pamela Wood, HepC Australasia

Harnessing community advocacy to tackle hep C stigma and discrimination David Pieper, Hepatitis NSW

10:30 – 11:30am Morning Tea 11:30am – 12:30pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS Workshop - Enabling outcomes through Barriers and enablers: Successful health promotion projects on a mapping barriers: using health reform Engaging and working shoestring (projects under 12k) to guide local priority actions for people with Aboriginal and Torres living with chronic hepatitis B Strait Islanders about viral hepatitis Yvonne Drazic 3 x 15-minute presentations 3x 15-minute presentations followed by 15-minute School of Public Health & School of Arts followed by 15-minute facilitated discussion time and Social Sciences facilitated discussion time Outreach without a budget – homelessness Jennifer MacLachlan Yarning about viral hepatitis interventions WHO Regional Reference Laboratory for in Victorian Aboriginal Jodie Walton, Hepatitis Queensland Hepatitis B, VIDRL & University of Communities – a partnership Melbourne approach. Deadly liver mob project – maximizing, upsizing and Peter Waples-Crowe, incentivizing – how to get the biggest bang for your Vanessa Towell Victorian Aboriginal buck Australasian Society for HIV Medicine & Community Controlled Health Louise Maher, Nepean Blue Mountains and Western University of New South Wales, Sydney Organisation. Sydney Local Health Districts

Dr Benjamin Cowie Illawarra & Shoalhaven My precious liver WHO Regional Reference Laboratory for healthy liver program – Cecilia Lim Hepatitis B, VIDRL, Royal Melbourne Increasing access to hepatitis Hepatitis South Australia C services for Aboriginal People in Regional NSW Natalie Beckett, HIV/AIDS & Related Programs Unit, South East Sydney Local Health District

Your mob my mob our mob Lisa Panton, Aboriginal Health & Medical Research Council

12:30 – 1:30pm Lunch 1:30 – 2.30pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS Identifying and addressing viral Art and storytelling: Overcoming the barriers to successful hepatitis treatment barriers utilising creative engagement with people who inject drugs and strategies to overcome initiatives that contribute to their health and engagement barriers and wellbeing raise awareness of viral hepatitis

3 x 15-minute presentations followed by 3x 15-minute presentations 3 x 15-minute presentations followed by 15-minute 15-minute facilitated discussion time followed by 15-minute facilitated discussion time facilitated discussion time Increasing hepatitis C treatment access How community controlled NSP is breaking through through the Community Prescriber Street shot photography the barriers Hepatitis C Treatment Initiation Pilot competition Candice Gilford, NSW Users & AIDS Association Sonja Hill, ASHM Isabella Natale, Hepatitis Victoria Small space for big ideas; promising results for I just want to get this hep C treatment: people who inject drugs reducing barriers to accessing, Art & story in indigenous Carla Calvete, Sydney & South Western Sydney Local monitoring and treatment for hard-to- health Health Districts reach populations Nicky Newley-Guivarra, Leah Higgins, Melbourne Health Hepatitis Queensland Innovation in hepatitis C health promotion for people who inject drugs; don’t mention hepatitis C Trading places: establishing a role Mainstreaming hepatitis Prof Carla Treloar, Centre for within the hepatitis C treatment Social Research in Health, University of NSW landscape for people with hepatitis C health promotion: resilience form culturally and linguistically diverse – an art and storytelling backgrounds exhibition Dash Gray, Multicultural HIV and Sharon Murphy, Cairns Hepatitis Service Hepatitis Action Team (CHAT)

2:30 – 3:00pm Afternoon tea

Closing Plenary

Panel Discussion – burning questions 3:00 – 4:30pm Rapporteurs

Official closing