Upcoming speaking engagements
TBA
Selected past speaking engagements
Australia Day event, Junee Shire Council, 26 January 2023
2022 Association of Fraternity and Sorority Advisors Annual Meeting (presentation for The Jed Foundation, titled, ‘Lifting Students Up: The State of Student Mental Health and How We Can Help’), National Harbor, MD, United States, 3 December 2022
Medical Panel discussion – We need to talk about us: a Medical perspective for Gathering of Kindness 2021, The Gathering of Kindness, 11 November 2021
Monash University Medical Students Society (MUMUS) Careers Futures Fair, 9 September 2021
Australasian Mental Health and Higher Education Conference webinar, 9 July 2020 (10.30am–12.30pm)
Australasian Mental Health and Higher Education Conference, Brisbane, 9 to 10 July 2020 – cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
Australia Day event, Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council, 26 January 2020
Student mental health strategy workshop, The University of Sydney, 23 August 2019
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 2019 Congress, Cairns, 12 to 16 May 2019
Progressive Action conference, Melbourne, 6 April 2019
MDA National Live Well, Work Well Retreat, Macedon Ranges, 23 to 24 March 2019
2019 National Wellness for Law Forum, Melbourne Law School, 14 February 2019
Australia Day event, Coonamble Shire Council, 26 January 2019
CQUniversity Senior Leadership Conference 2018, Sydney, 24 to 25 October 2018
Partnerships for Student Mental Health 2018 Forum, Monash University, Clayton, 27 August 2018
2018 Australian Mental Health and Higher Education Conference, James Cook University, 6 to 7 July 2018
Australian and New Zealand Prevocational Medical Education Forum 2017, Brisbane, 13 to 15 November 2017
The Australian International Education Conference, Hobart, 10 to 13 October 2017
Inaugural Australasian Mental Health and Higher Education Conference, James Cook University, 30 June to 1 July 2017
Academic Board meeting, RMIT University, 5 June 2017
Australia Day event, Scone and Aberdeen, Upper Hunter Shire Council, 26 January 2017
Memorandum of Understanding signing between Western Sydney University and the Population Health Services of Western Sydney, Nepean Blue Mountains and South Western Sydney Local Health Districts, Western Sydney University, 2 December 2016
‘Can mindfulness save the world? A public forum co-hosted by Healthy Sydney University and Sydney Ideas’, The University of Sydney, 10 October 2016
3rd Student Minds Annual Conference: ‘Mental Health Promotion: Students as Partners’, The University of New South Wales, 26 September 2016
2016 National Symposium on Enhancing Student Mental Health and Wellbeing, The University of Melbourne, 9 September 2016
Mental Health in Higher Education Symposium, The Australian National University, 9 May 2016
Healthy Sydney University Mental Wellbeing meeting, The University of Sydney, 21 April 2016
The National Health Sector Managers & Leaders Conference 2016, Australian School of Applied Management, Melbourne, 3 to 4 March 2016
Presentation Evening Guest Speaker, Normanhurst Boys’ High School, Sydney, 15 December 2015
Future Health Leaders National Conference 2015, Sydney, 19 to 21 November 2015
MedicineSocial, Melbourne, 16 May 2015
Inaugural Student Minds Annual Conference: ‘The Student Voice for Mental Health’, The University of New South Wales, 21 July 2014
MedEd12 (presentation titled ‘Prof, you might as well be a hologram’), Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, 21 to 22 September 2012
Inaugural Future Health Leaders National Conference, Adelaide, 1 to 2 September 2012
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