Program

Men Say YES to Family Peace
Greg Millan, Men’s Health
Consultant, Men’s Health Services
Simon Santosha, Managing
Director, Men & Family Counselling
and Consultancy
Consultancy
Support Services
Male Perpetrators of Domestic
Violence – Physical and Emotional
Health
Gary D Smith, Program Manager
Offender Services, Communicare
12:30 Lunch - Participants are invited to visit the conference exhibitors Hawkesbury Lobby
13:30 Concurrent Session 5
5.1 Workshop - Using Social Media
to improve Aboriginal Men’s
Social Determinants of health
Chair: Stuart McMinn
Room: Henry Kendall Ballroom
5.2 Men’s Health Promotion
Chair: Greg Millan
Room: Macmasters
5.3 Engaging Men
Chair: Peter Kelly
Room: Avoca Terrigal
5.4 Sexual Health
Chair: Michael Orchard
Room: Forresters
5.5 Successes and
Challenges for Non
Indigenous Services
supporting Indigenous men;
Chair: Anthony Brown /
Aboriginal Mens Yarning
Circle; Chair: Gene Blow
Room: Wamberal
Using social media to improve
men’s social determinants of
health
Luke Pearson, Indigenous X
Shared medical appointments for
men: Revisiting ‘GutBusters waist
loss program’ for Indigenous and
non-Indigenous men
Dr Garry Egger, Professor, Southern
Cross University; Secretary
Australian Lifestyle Medicine
Association (ALMA); Director
Centre for Health promotion and
Research
Where’s Harry in all this?
Hard to reach men or hard to reach
agencies?
Philip Chapman, Health Promoter
(Men’s Health), Nelson Marlborough
District Health Board.
David Mitchell, Nelson Marlborough
Institute of Technology
We’ll Have A gay old time:
Working with gay and
bisexual men
Dr Stuart Edser PhD. MAPS,
Principal Psychologist at
Newcastle Psychology &
Health
Men plus community plus
dementia – it all adds up
Stuart Torrance, Project
Officer, Alzheimer’s Australia
NSW
30 minutes
Aboriginal Mens Yarning
Circle
60 minutes
15:00 Afternoon tea
Participants are invited to visit the conference exhibitors
15:30 Plenary Panel Session: Baby boomers and young generation panel - How have the health and social challenges for young men
changed?
Chair: Julian Krieg, President, AMHF
- Dr Mick Adams, Senior Research Fellow, Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet, Edith Cowan University
- Stuart McMinn, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Liaison Worker, Interrelate
- John Roberts, Principal Consultant, Community Consultations
- Arran Moncrieff, Social Worker, Department of Juvenile Justice
17:00 Closing ceremony: 8 th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Male Health Convention
Summary and closing address Stuart McMinn
Hawkesbury Lobby
Henry Kendall Ballroom
Henry Kendall Ballroom
PROGRAM current as at September 25, 2015. The organising committee reserves the right to change the program at any time.