ANNUAL REPORT 2001–2002 VISION VicHealth’s vision is of a community where: health is valued as a primary resource for living; responsibility for creating conditions which support good health is shared across different sectors; and improved health outcomes are shared equally across the community. MISSION VicHealth’s mission is to build the capabilities of organisations, com- munities and individuals in ways that: change social, economic and physical environments so they improve health for all Victorians; and strengthen the understanding and the skills of individuals in ways that support their efforts to achieve and maintain health. The Victorian Health Promotion Foundation is an organisation committed to promoting the health of all Victorians. 2001-2002 ANNUAL REPORT VicHealth’s strategic directions list five anticipated outcomes by 2002: Recognised as a leader in health promotion innovation Demonstrable contribution to population health Greater investment in population groups most in need Shared responsibility for health across settings and sectors Innovative organisation The 2001-2002 Annual Report highlights activities that represent VicHealth’s efforts during the year towards achieving these aims. Cover Image: Young people are a key target group for VicHealth VicHealth Annual Report 2001–2002 CHAIR’S REPORT VICHEALTH BOARD CEO’S REPORT INVESTMENTS AT A OF GOVERNANCE GLANCE 2001–2002 02 04 06 08 15 YEARS OF VICHEALTH CASE STUDIES 2001 VICHEALTH AWARDS PRESENTATIONS 1987–2002 AND ARTICLES 10 12 32 33 PROJECT SUMMARIES VICHEALTH REPORT OF VICHEALTH FINANCIAL ORGANISATIONAL CHART VICHEALTH INVESTMENTS OPERATIONS 2001–2002 STATEMENTS 2001–2002 2001–2002 34 57 61 78 www.vichealth.vic.gov.au 1 CHAIR’S REPORT We are in the final year of the current strategic plan, and the summer agenda for board and staff is to reflect on its successes and weaknesses, and to craft the next strategic plan on the back of this analysis. 2 www.vichealth.vic.gov.au MESSAGE TO THE MINISTER In accordance with the Tobacco Act 1987, I have pleasure in submitting to you the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation’s Annual Report for the 12 months of operation to 30 June 2002. The report reviews the progress made by the Foundation in the promotion of health for all Victorians. A financial statement for 2001–2002 is included in the report with the Auditor-General’s Report. Professor John Funder Chair The year just ended has been one of consolidation on a number of On a less sombre note, one of the most recent initiatives has been fronts, and of advances on others. In terms of consolidation, the to, every six months, hold a Board meeting in regional Victoria – Victorian Health Promotion Foundation’s move in early 2001 into Bendigo, Wodonga, Warrnambool – adding an extra day for meeting the new, larger premises in Pelham Street has borne fruit in a and listening to the local people involved in health, health promotion number of ways. For the staff, working conditions are much better – and community building. This initiative is designed to complement airy, open, inviting rather than cramped and time-worn. For our and reinforce the excellent relationships between grantees in rural shareholders and those we serve, the move has been an enormous and regional Victoria and VicHealth staff. It emphasises that the boon, in allowing groups to use the meeting rooms, boardroom and Foundation is VicHealth, not Melbourne health, and it appears to seminar space on site. be widely appreciated. We are now in the final year of the current strategic plan, and the In terms of the future, we have been fortunate in having reappointed summer agenda for board and staff is to reflect on its successes Rob Moodie for a second four year term, to continue the outstanding and weaknesses, and to craft the next strategic plan on the back contribution he makes as CEO. His role is necessarily not confined of this analysis. To this end, the Board over the past year has spent to Victoria, but spills over onto both the National and International time auditing its own internal workings, as well as surveying the stage. Melbourne has won the right to host the 2004 World Health operations of VicHealth as a whole. Last year we made the change Promotion Conference which Rob will co-chair with Marilyn Wise, from standing (often like silos) subcommittees to time-limited, and the Secretariat is to be located at VicHealth. The Foundation is task-specific panels. This year we have reviewed the panels, internationally recognised as at the cutting edge of health promotion; reconstituted most but not all, using a mix of continuing and new the wider the ripple effect, the more Victoria’s contribution to a members, with at least one interstate member on each panel. healthier world will be. The continuing subcommittees – Finance and Human Resources, This report has focussed on Board operations to a large part; what and Audit – have moved smoothly into new areas of responsibility, the muscle and bone and sinews of VicHealth do is covered in the and have addressed various areas of governance at the request of – remainder of the Annual Report. In three major areas of activity – and the subsequent strong endorsement by – the Board. sport, tobacco, and mental health – the Foundation has been a major Among these new responsibilities has been a thorough, ongoing contributor. Smoking rates have fallen, for the first time, to less than analysis of intellectual property issues which involve the work of the 20% in Victoria: VicHealth provides the majority of the funds for the Foundation. We have completed a detailed assessment of the range Quit campaign, and the two institutions and the Cancer Council of risks which we could encounter at both the governance and the Victoria (CCV) work very closely together. In sport the emphasis is operational levels. This year has also seen an exhaustive 1:1 very much on participation, team building, and inclusiveness. With (Chair:Board member) enquiry into views of the organisation across membership of churches, trade unions and voluntary organisations a wide range of areas, from direction to strategy to people to process at historic low levels, sporting groups have an enormously important and succession planning. All current Board members (with the role to play in promoting connectedness. In many ways, our exception of the political representatives) have terms expiring in emphasis on sport is equally on promoting mental health and early 2003. On this basis, Board members and staff have spent wellbeing as on physical health. a considerable amount of time and effort on succession planning. In closing, a note of thanks to all on board – to Rob Moodie, This has included opening up the field by advertisement and tireless, surefooted, a great leader; to the staff of VicHealth, attempting to achieve a balance between continuing and new professional, dedicated, hard working to a fault; to the Board, Board appointments. engaged, contributory, collegial; and finally thank you to all those Other significant issues for the VicHealth Board over the past year in metropolitan, rural and regional Victoria who put in, and make have been the appointment of Jane Fenton as Deputy Chair and the range of VicHealth programs in sports, the arts and the the appointment to the Board of Belinda Jakiel, whose background community the success that they are. is in sport, in regional Victoria and in the Koori community in lieu of Maxine Crouch, who died very prematurely of breast cancer; and Susan Holmes, also a major contributor to the Board and the Foundation, who recently died from the same disease. Both Maxine and Susan were inspirational women, never more so than in their last months of life. Their courage and dignity touched everyone Professor John Funder within the VicHealth family, and we are all very much the lesser for their passing. Chair www.vichealth.vic.gov.au 3 VICHEALTH BOARD OF GOVERNANCE TOP ROW LEFT TO RIGHT: PROFESSOR JOHN FUNDER, THE HON. GERALD ASHMAN MLC, THE HON. RON BEST MLC, PROFESSOR ROBERT BURTON, MS ELAINE CANTY, MS JANE FENTON CHAIRMAN THE HON. RON BEST MLC MS ELAINE CANTY MR LINDSAY GAZE PROFESSOR JOHN FUNDER Ron Best, MLC for North Western Elaine Canty is a lawyer, Lindsay Gaze is coach of the John Funder was Director of Province, is a National Party broadcaster and journalist. Melbourne Tigers in Australia’s the Baker Institute (1990–2001), Member of State Parliament She is Foundation Director of National Basketball League, a working in the areas of and Secretary of the the Victorian Institute of Sport member of the Sport Australia endocrinology and cardiovascular Parliamentary Party. and a member of the Australian Hall of Fame and one of disease. He is currently involved Football League Tribunal. Australia’s most prominent in research in Melbourne, Sydney PROFESSOR ROBERT and experienced coaches. and overseas, and in addition BURTON DEPUTY CHAIR He represented Australia in basketball as a player in three serves as a consultant to major Robert Burton was, until August, MS JANE FENTON pharmaceutical companies and 2002, the Director of the Cancer Olympic Games and as a coach Jane Fenton is the principal philanthropic foundations. Council of Victoria. He is taking in four. of Fenton Communications, up a position as Strategic leader, a strategic communications THE HON. Union Internationale Contre Le and reputation management GERALD ASHMAN MLC Cancer. He is also a member consultancy with offices in of the National Cancer Control Gerald Ashman is the Liberal Melbourne and Sydney. Initiative Management Member for Koonung Province Jane is a Director of the Murdoch Committee, the Medical and in the Victorian Parliament. Childrens Research Institute. He has extensive management Scientific Committee of the experience with industry Clinical Oncological Society of associations and the private Australia/Cancer Control Australia, sector.