Sustainability Week: Ask Me Anything Panel (Health & Wellbeing)

Ask Me Anything Panel: Health and Wellbeing
As part of Sustainability Week, we invite you to join our Ask Me Anything panel — an open and inclusive forum designed to spark meaningful dialogue around pressing sustainability issues.

This session will be centred around Health and Wellbeing and brings together a diverse group of experts and practitioners working across this sector at the University.

Anyone is welcome as this is your opportunity to ask questions, share ideas, and gain insights from those driving change across the sector.

Meet the panellists:

Heidi Margrie - Lived Experience Training Manager at batyr 

Heidi (she/her) is the Lived Experience Training Manager at batyr, a preventative youth mental health organisation with a focus on reducing stigma around mental health. Heidi is a qualified social worker, and brings a diverse experience of social work, HR and learning and development. In her role, Heidi leads the Lived Experience Training program with a focus on batyr's core training offering, the 'Being Herd' workshop, which empowers young people through lived experience storytelling. Committed to creating safe and empowering spaces, Heidi's passion drives batyr's mission to support and uplift youth voices. 

Renee De Silva, Health Promotion Manager, The University of Melbourne

Renee de Silva is the Health Promotion Manager at the University of Melbourne, where she leads the University Health Promotion Program. This program is dedicated to enhancing and supporting student health and wellbeing through evidence-based campaigns, on-campus initiatives, and by increasing awareness of the wide range of wellbeing services available at the University. With over 15 years of experience in the health promotion sector, including roles in not-for-profit, government, and tertiary education, Renee brings a wealth of expertise in health promotion, behaviour change, and health education. She is deeply passionate about preventative health and is committed to promoting healthy behaviours in inclusive, holistic, and engaging ways that resonate with diverse student communities.

Sunny Nguyen, Research Officer Sustainable Healthcare and Co-Lead of the Intergenerational Justice stream at the Climate CATCH Lab, The University of Melbourne

Sunny is a trained epidemiologist and public health practitioner based at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, with experience across government, academia, health services, non-profits, and consultancies. His work focuses on participatory service design, mixed-methods evaluation, and strategic planning at the intersection of climate change, community wellbeing, and the environment, particularly for children, young people, and older adults.

Participating in Green Impact? Complete these toolkit actions by attending (teams/individuals):

• Sustainability Week 2025: You have attended an event as part of Sustainability Week (30 points!)

• Be inspired to complete the actions under the 'Health & Wellbeing' theme filter

• UOM016/UOM-I08: You have attended an event run by the Sustainability Team

• UOM011 & S019/UOM-I02 & UOM-I03: You have shared your involvement in Sustainability Week via social media and/or interacted with one of the Sustainability Delivery Team's communication channels

• UOM018/UOM-I07: You have written an article for the Green Impact newsletter based on your participation in Sustainability Week.

• UOM071/UOM-I22: You have participated in or organised an event/activity aimed at improving health and fitness. These could be a stepathlon, a yoga class, communal bike rides, meditation, running events or any sporting or wellness event relevant to your team.