The seminar will showcase five distinguished speakers who will present their groundbreaking research in health communication, health promotion, and innovative health care strategies. Their findings have major implications for advancing academic scholarship and transforming health care practices and service delivery.

Speakers and their topics are:

Professor David Sibbritt – ‘Post-stroke Self Care and support living at home – The Allen Study’

Dr Catriona Bonfiglioli – ‘Attention cycles in COVID news coverage: What to do when the novelty wears off’

Dr Joshua Pate – ‘Pain can be good?! Pain as messages that support health’

Dr Gail Kenning – ‘“I never felt so heard”: A psychosocial research engagement to communicate the lived experience of dementia’

Emeritus Professor Andrew Jakubowicz – ‘How and why the Australian health communication system failed its multicultural communities during the COVID pandemic, and why the problem is still a problem’