Education and Training
Ask us about bespoke hepatitis B and hepatitis C training for your team or workplace!
- Free interactive and evidence based workforce development can be provided in your workplace or online. We tailor the session to suit your learning needs and the audience.
- Suitable for a range of health professionals throughout Victoria including; primary care, nurses, refugee health, midwives, GPs, allied health, health students, aged care, Aboriginal health workers, mental health, community health, dentists, pharmacists, Needle & Syringe Program and AOD workers.
- Funded by Department of Health and Human Services, Victoria.
Why
- The fastest rising cause of cancer death is from liver cancer, primarily caused by untreated chronic hepatitis B & C.
- Understanding the need for long term management of hepatitis B and C is essential to reduce rapidly increasing rates of cirrhosis and liver cancer.
- Hep C treatments are curative, effective, taken for short duration and have few unwanted effects. Hep B treatments reduce the risk of liver cancer.
For more information contact Mieken Grant (RN, MPH) 0407 865 140 or mieken.grant@svha.org.au.
Viral Hepatitis Education Training 2025
FREE lunchtime webinars on liver disease & viral hepatitis
Running weekly February - April 2025 at 12:30 to 1:15pm on Tuesdays (except Week 10 is on a Wednesday). Please see the flyer with more details and registration here
- Week 1: Tuesday 18th February. Basics of Viral Hepatitis
- Week 2: Tuesday 25th February. How do I start the conversation about testing for hepatitis C?
- Week 3: Tuesday 4th March. Innovative incentivisation for HCV testing and treatment
- Week 4: Tuesday 11th March. The intersection of mental health and viral hepatitis
- Week 5: Tuesday 18th March. Liver Cancer screening in General Practice
- Week 6: Tuesday 25th March. Viral hepatitis in pregnancy & care in the postnatal period
- Week 7: Tuesday 1st April. Management of stable hepatitis B in general practice
- Week 8: Tuesday 8th April. Cirrhosis assessment and management
- Week 9: Tuesday 15th April. Abnormal LFTs - what could it be?
- Week 10: Wednesday 23rd April:. Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)
Hepatitis B Made Easy: Seminars 2025
Four Online webinars 10:00am - 11:30am (1.5 hours) for health, support and community workers who wish to learn the basics about hepatitis B and how best to talk about it.
- Wednesday 12 March 2025
- Tuesday 17 June 2025
- Thursday 25 September 2025
- Wednesday 26 November 2025
For further information and to register, click here.
Bloody Serious Facts: Workshops 2025
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and Harm Reduction Victoria have partnered to provide interactive education workshops on hepatitis C, including diagnosis, treatments and strategies to increase awareness and support clients into health care.
Face to Face (highly encouraged) or Online.
- Thursday 27 February 2025 (Face to face) 09:00am - 12:30pm
- Thursday 17 April 2025: (Face to face) 09:00 - 12:30pm
- Thursday 15 May 2025: (Online) 10:00am - 12:00pm
- Thursday 24 July 2025: (Face to face) 09:00am - 12:30pm
- Thursday 18 September 2025: (Face to face) 09:00am - 12:30pm
- Thursday 16 October 2025: (Online) 10:00am - 12:00pm
Click here for flyer with more information and to register.
Liver and Viral Hepatitis webinar series 2024 (free recorded sessions) for general practitioners and practice nurses
In early 2024 the Victorian Viral Hepatitis Educator facilitated weekly lunchtime webinar sessions about all things liver disease and viral hepatitis. Over 11 weeks the best in the business, including St Vincent’s own Gastroenterologists and nurses plus lots of big brains in the viral hepatitis, alcohol & other drugs, data surveillance, HIV and harm reduction arenas, walked us through a topic in depth around viral hepatitis. Below are the recordings of most sessions - watch all nine sessions for a great overview of liver disease and viral hepatitis or pick and choose sessions that suit your area of work or interest.
Each recording is 40 minutes.
• Week 1: Liver Cancer Screening - A/Prof Jessica Howell
• Week 2: Viral Hepatitis Serology Explained - Dr Jacqui Richmond
• Week 3: Hepatitis C Treatment - A/Prof Jacinta Holmes
• Week 4: Liver Cirrhosis 101 - Prof Alex Thompson
• Week 5: Hepatitis B Treatment - Dr David Iser
• Week 6: Viral Hepatitis Mapping Project - Jennifer MacLachlan (not recorded due to unpublished data being discussed, please contact Mieken.grant@svha.org.au or Jennifer.MacLachlan@vidrl.org.au for presentation slides
• Week 7: A Focus on Injecting practices that lead to poor health outcomes - Jane Dicka (not recorded. Please contact Mieken.grant@svha.org.au or janed@hrvic.org.au for information or to book into ‘Bloody Serious Facts’ education)
• Week 8: The Changing Landscape of Opioid Use Disorders - Dr Adam Pastor
• Week 9: Pregnancy & Viral Hepatitis - Dr Naomi Whyler
• Week 10: HIV and Viral Hepatitis Coinfection - Dr David Iser
• Week 11: Innovative approaches to Viral Hepatitis - Anne Craigie
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