Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health

22/09/2025

September is Sexual Health Month!
Talking about sexual health helps break down stigma, reduce misinformation, and support healthier communities. Everyone deserves clear, accessible information, including people from migrant and refugee backgrounds.

On Health Translations, you’ll find multilingual resources on sexual health, sexually transmitted infections, and contraception from our content partners Jean Hailes for Women's Health and The Royal Women's Hospital.

Explore translated resources here:
🔗 Jean Hailes and Royal Women’s Hospital resources - https://tinyurl.com/HTjhwhrwh2025
🔗 All sexual health, STI and contraception resources - https://tinyurl.com/HTshsticont2025

For more info in English, check out Better Health Channel: betterhealth.vic.gov.au/sti

Let’s keep the conversation open, for safer, healthier communities.

The Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health also delivers the Multicultural Health & Support Service (MHSS), which works with communities and services to promote sexual health and wellbeing. Learn more: www.ceh.org.au/multicultural-health-support-service/

02/09/2025

It’s Women’s Health Week!

Australia’s largest event dedicated to the health and wellbeing of women, girls, and gender-diverse people is here! This year’s theme, ‘Say Yes to You’, encourages everyone to prioritise their health and wellbeing.

The Health Translations Library has a range of resources to support women’s health, including:
• Easy Read materials – Accessible, downloadable, and printable.
• Translated fact sheets, videos and audio material to support diverse communities.

Let’s work together to promote health and wellbeing for all. Explore these valuable resources and share them with your networks today!
Link: https://tinyurl.com/HTWOMENSHEALTH

Jean Hailes for Women's Health

01/09/2025

Having issues at work? Many migrant workers do not know their rights and the Migrant Workers Centre can help.

Watch our latest TikTok video to learn more: https://www.tiktok.com/.ceh/video/7538240471735340306

Migrant Workers' Centre Trades Hall

28/08/2025

Tomorrow is Wear It Purple Day and CEH (and the whole of North Richmond Community Health) celebrated a day early with a purple-themed afternoon tea.

Wear it Purple Day is an annual show of support on the last Friday of August to foster safe, empowering and inclusive environments for LGBTIQ+ young people.

26/08/2025

It’s Scam Awareness Week!

Scammers don’t discriminate - they target people of all backgrounds, ages, and income levels across Australia. They’re constantly inventing new tricks, but with the right knowledge and habits, you can stay safe and protect yourself.

The Health Translations Library provides multilingual resources to help you spot, understand, and avoid scams.

Visit the library to access trusted information in your language and safeguard yourself and your community: https://tinyurl.com/healthtranslations-scams

06/08/2025

In the next CEH next webinar, we're finding out how BreastScreen Victoria used findings from a recent project to increase multicultural engagement in their service.

Join us to learn more about types of community engagement, how cultural competence can help you reach more people, and what your next steps could be for your work with multicultural communities.

When: Wednesday 13 August 2025, 12pm-12:30pm (AEST)
Register: tinyurl.com/CEHWEBINAR-AUG2025

06/08/2025

Loneliness Awareness Week Australia

You don’t need a best friend, lifelong mate or big crew to feel less lonely.

Making friends or forming connections takes time and effort, but it often starts with a small moment. An awkward hello, a chance encounter, an act of kindness, a compliment, a shared experience or interest or even a funny story – these small but meaningful interactions matter. They spark conversation and help us feel seen and valued.

This Loneliness Awareness Week, you can find real moments that help young people connect and make moments matter at home, work, school, online and in the community – plus you can find extensive research and resources (including translated into Arabic, Chinese and Vietnamese).

Find out here why moments matter: https://lonelinessawarenessweek.com.au/ -a-moment

05/08/2025

Our August Newsletter is out!

Sadly, we said goodbye to two well-known and respected community educators.

To read about changes in our MHSS team, our upcoming webinar, how to become a Health Translations Content Partner and more: https://mailchi.mp/ceh.org.au/news-aug25

27/07/2025

Hepatitis C treatment has made so much program that over 90% of people who take the treatment are cured.

We are celebrating World Hepatitis Day with this short video packed with useful information:

Check out MHSS’s video.

24/07/2025

So many ribbons! It can be confusing to know which cause the red, white or purple ribbons stand for. Fortunately, CEH's Multicultural Health and Support Service is here to help!

Watch our latest video on TikTok:

Check out MHSS’s video.

22/07/2025

Let’s make grief visible – in every language.

Griefline’s 2025 National Grief Survey is a vital initiative to understand how grief is experienced across Australia, and where people are falling through the cracks in support. At Health Translations, we’re proud to support this campaign and highlight Griefline’s work in making grief support more accessible for people from non-English speaking backgrounds.

If you’ve experienced grief in the last 12 months, we invite you to take part in the survey.

🕒 Takes 10–15 minutes | 📅 Open until 31 August 2025
https://griefline.org.au/2025-national-grief-survey/

If grief has touched your life at any stage, you’re also invited to share your story through Griefline’s national storytelling campaign during Grief Awareness Month.

📅 Story submissions until 26 July - 🔗 https://forms.office.com/r/jMGmpgZL7E

Griefline has also developed a range of multilingual resources to support people through different types of grief. Whether that’s after the death of a loved one, losing a pet, experiencing a natural disaster, or caring for someone who is grieving. Resources are available in Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Greek, Spanish and Vietnamese.

🔗 Explore Griefline’s translated resources on Health Translations: https://tinyurl.com/HTGriefline

🔗 Find more multilingual resources on grief and loss here: https://tinyurl.com/HTgrieflossresources

Share it. Talk about it. Let’s make grief visible.

15/07/2025

It's National Diabetes Week, and CEH is joining Diabetes Australia's call to raise awareness about prevention, which matters at every stage of the journey.

Whether it’s reducing your risk of type 2 diabetes or avoiding complications for people already diagnosed, taking small, informed steps can make a big difference. But there’s still a lot of confusion and misinformation about diabetes, and this can make managing it even harder.

That’s where access to clear, culturally appropriate health information becomes so important.

The Health Translations library has a growing range of translated resources to support culturally and linguistically diverse individuals, families, and communities living with or at risk of diabetes.

Here are some of the latest translated resources available:
📽️ Understanding your gestational diabetes diagnosis (video): https://tinyurl.com/gdvid25
📄 Physical activity factsheet: https://tinyurl.com/pafs25
📄 Understanding gestational diabetes: https://tinyurl.com/ugd25
📄 Understanding type 2 diabetes: https://tinyurl.com/ut2d25
📄 Your diabetes annual cycle of care fact sheet: https://tinyurl.com/ydacocfs25

More multilingual resources from our content partner Diabetes Victoria: https://tinyurl.com/diaau25

Diabetes resources from other organisations: https://tinyurl.com/HTdiabres25

Let’s work together towards a healthier future by making reliable health information accessible to everyone, regardless of language.