Co-Coordinator Communications and Membership
Melissa is a Partnerships Lead, in the Health Promotion and Prevention team at Monash Health in the South East Public Health Unit. Focusing on helping to eliminate cervical cancer she is developing strengthened linkages between local area health organisations, community services providers and the community to lead a population approach for placed-based prevention activities aligned with state-wide policies and priorities. She has enjoyed engaging with members of various multicultural groups to help raise awareness of how to prevent avoidable blindness and low vision and trained health professionals in eye health, to help build capacity and identify clients who may be at risk of vision loss.
With extensive experience working in educational, welfare and health community organisations as well as with Carers, Melissa is passionate about health, prevention and wellbeing and committed to improving health outcomes for all. She has a keen interest in mental health and nutrition, particularly in coeliac disease and diabetes and has written a book about Coeliac disease.
She is excited to continue as an AHPA Vic/Tas Committee member for a 3rd year and hopes to actively use her health promotion and education skills to continue to advocate for improvements in areas of health prevention.
