2019 Aboriginal Cancer Network Forum

The Cancer Institute NSW Aboriginal Cancer Network includes health and community workers, who work with Aboriginal people affected by cancer. It includes Aboriginal community members and consumers.

It brings together people working in the community with those impacted by cancer as a patient, carer or support person.

Working together: highlights from the 2019 Forum

2019 Aboriginal Cancer Network Forum

When: 4–5 April 2019
Where: The Pullman, 36 College Street, Sydney

This year’s forum highlighted best-practice models of care to improve cancer outcomes for the NSW Aboriginal population.

The Forum is free event for members of the NSW Aboriginal Cancer Network.

Forum Program

Day 1: Thursday 4 April 2019

9.00am	Registration with tea and coffee
9.30am	Welcome address from the Cancer Institute NSW Muggera Cultural Enterprise Welcome address from the Cancer Institute NSW Professor David Currow, Chief Cancer Officer, NSW and CEO, Cancer Institute NSW Connecting understanding of country and culture to service delivery Kim Whiteley, Manager, Aboriginal Strategy and Health Programs, Western NSW Primary Health Network Evolution of a chronic disease strategy: A whole-of-life approach to addressing chronic disease through delivery of primary care services to Aboriginal people in far west NSW Bob Davis, Chief Executive Officer, Maari Ma Aboriginal Health Corporation
11.00am	Cuppa and a yarn
11.30am	Concurrent sessions
	Ibis Room 1	Ibis Room 2
	Marrabinya – Aboriginal health in Aboriginal hands Donna Jeffries Working together to give women choice: Community-based HPV self-sampling for Aboriginal women Jo Marjoram Program of experience in the palliative approach (PEPA) Janeen Foffani Supporting community in their cancer/wellness journey – cancer care team Kyla Wynn and Trish Levett	Yarning about cancer in our local region: Who is who in the zoo, and what do we all do? Louise Brown and Fiona Markwick BreastScreen NSW Greater Western Aboriginal engagement project Christine Fing Waminda’s comprehensive care program model Kristine Falzon, Kristika Kumar and Carley Jones
12.30pm	Lunch and a yarn
1.30pm	Yarning with our concurrent session presenters
2.00pm	What does a good culturally-safe model look like? Paul Sinclair and Kim Whiteley
3.30pm	Cuppa and a yarn
4.00pm	Hunter New England toolkits for health workers I’m going to get checked. Wanna come? Into the dreaming A/Prof Anthony Proietto, Susan Mulyk, Rose Wadwell and Aunty Marg
5.00pm	Networking
6.00pm	Event concludes

Day 2: April 5 April 2019

8.00am	Cancer survivor’s early morning walk around Hyde Park Meet at Pullman Hotel reception Paul Sinclair
9.00am	Acknowledgment of Country Re-cap of day 1 Paul Sinclair
9.10am	Preventing cervical cancer by caring for our women Teresa Fisher and Rosalind Moxham Paul Sinclair
10.00am	Cuppa and a yarn
10.30am	Shaping the implementation plan for the Optimal Care Pathway for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in NSW Megan Varlow
1.00pm	Lunch and goodbyes