Please find details for this event below:
- 5:30pm for a 6:00pm Start
- Thursday 29 August 2024
- Orion Room, Smithfield RSL, 88 Smithfield Road, Smithfield, 2164
! JUST ANNOUNCED !
Two additional speakers:
PROFESSOR GLEN MABERLY
Prof Maberly is a Senior Staff Specialist Endocrinologist at Blacktown and Mt Druitt Hospitals, and the Director of Western Sydney Diabetes (WSD) at Western Sydney Local Health District.
Glen is the driving force behind WSD, which was set up to address the epidemic of diabetes in greater western Sydney, where it is estimated that more than 50 per cent of its residents are overweight or obese, and at high risk of diabetes.
WSD work includes primary and secondary prevention as well as building the capacity of general practice and community to better manage diabetes. It also includes developing a comprehensive array of digital solutions relevant to this application.
Previously, Glen was the founding Executive Director of the Iodine Network, the Flour Fortification Initiative and Rice Fortification Network working with the UN organisations, Global Public Health organisations and agro business to reduce the global burden of vitamin and mineral deficiency in over 120 countries around the world. Throughout his career, Prof Maberly has focused on fostering public-private-civic partnerships and bring public health evidence based research findings to large scale implementation.
SARAH DRISCOLL
With a career spanning over a decade in the public health sector, Sarah has worked in various capacities across clinical, community, research and educational domains. She has a comprehensive understanding of the health landscape in the region and leverages her expertise in chronic disease prevention to drive multisectoral community health initiatives within the WSLHD.
Our community is a diabetes hotspot, with disease rates higher than the NSW average.
We will be joined by Western Sydney Diabetes specialists, who will talk to us about the issues surrounding this disease, and answer your questions.
I look forward to seeing you there.
Please RSVP using the form below.
Thank you!
