Education and Training
Free hepatitis B & hepatitis C training for Victorian healthcare workers
Build your team’s confidence in viral hepatitis care with practical, evidence-based education tailored to your workplace.
Delivered online or in-person across Victoria, these interactive sessions are designed to meet the learning needs of your team — whether you work in primary care, community health, refugee health, mental health, aged care, Aboriginal health, AOD services, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, or allied health.
Why this training matters
Chronic hepatitis B and hepatitis C remain major causes of preventable liver disease and liver cancer in Australia. Earlier diagnosis, better engagement in care, and timely treatment can save lives.
Your workforce can play a critical role in:
- Increasing testing, diagnosis and engagement in care
- Improving linkage to, and engagement in care
- Supporting culturally safe conversations
- Reducing stigma
- Preventing liver cancer and advanced liver disease
Practical, relevant, and tailored to your team
Sessions can be customised to suit:
- Beginner or advanced knowledge levels
- Specific workforce roles
- Clinical or community settings
- Time available for training
- Priority topics relevant to your service
Topics may include:
- Hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing
- Monitoring and long-term management
- Treatment updates and prescribing pathways
- Cancer prevention and liver health
- Working with priority populations
- Reducing stigma and improving engagement in care
Flexible delivery options
✔ Online or face-to-face
✔ Short sessions or extended workshops
✔ Team meetings, professional development, or workforce training days
✔ Available across metropolitan and regional Victoria
Book a session
To organise training for your team:
Funded by the Victorian Department of Health.
2025 Viral Hepatitis Workshops with partner organisations
'Hepatitis B Made Easy' education 2026
Online webinars for health, support and community workers who wish to learn the basics about hepatitis B and how best to talk about it with the communities most affected. Presented by the Victorian Viral Hepatitis Educator (St Vincents Hospital Melbourne) and the Multicultural Health & Support Service (MHSS).
Online sessions from 10:00am - 11:30am (1.5 hours) on the following dates:
- Tuesday 24 March 2026
- Wednesday 17 June 2026
- Thursday 24 September 2026
- Tuesday 24 November 2026
REGISTER HERE for Hepatitis B Made Easy
'Bloody Serious Facts': Workshops 2026
Education focusing on Hepatitis C, including transmission, testing and treatment. Also learn about the impact and meaning of living with hepatitis C from a person with lived experience and learn about harm reduction. Presented by the Victorian Viral Hepatitis Educator (St Vincents Hospital Melbourne) and Jane Dicka (Harm Reduction Victoria)
Face to Face (highly encouraged) or Online:
- Wednesday 8th April 2026: (Online) 10:00am - 12:00pm
- Thursday 19th May 2026: (Face to Face) 9:30am - 12:30pm
- Tuesday 14th July 2026: (Face to face) 10:00am - 12:00pm
- Tuesday 15th September 2026: (Face to face) 9:30am - 12:30pm
- Tuesday 17th November 2026: (Online) 10:00am - 12:00pm
REGISTER HERE
Viral Hepatitis Education Webinar series 2024 & 2025 - Recordings
In 2024 and 2025 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 and/or liver disease. Below are the recordings of most sessions for each year. Each recording is around 40 minutes.
2026 Series
Week 1: Hepatitis B refresher - Mieken Grant
Week 2: Hepatitis C refresher - Mieken Grant
Week 3: Viral Hepatitis care for people with renal impairment - Dr Jacinta Holmes
Week 4: Alcohol related liver disease - Dr Tim Phan
Week 5: Hepatitis C point of care testing in practice - Chloe Layton
Week 6: When do I refer my client to a liver specialist - Phoebe Van Lambert
Week 7: Viral hepatitis in immunocompromised people
Week 8: Hepatitis C testing in mental health settings
Week 9: Hepatitis B point of care testing in practice
Week 10: Meaningful involvement of peers in hepatitis C elimination
2025 Series
Week 1: Basics of Viral Hepatitis - Mieken Grant
Week 2: How do I start the conversation about testing for hepatitis C? - Chloe Layton, Mark Belzer & Amanda Cullus
Week 3: Innovative incentivisation for hepatitis C testing & treatment - Alex Wade
Week 4:The intersection of mental health & viral hepatitis (Did not go ahead)
Week 5: Liver Cancer screening in General Practice - Dr Nicole Allard
Week 6: Viral hepatitis in pregnancy & the post natal period - Dr Naomi Whyler
Week 7: Cirrhosis assessment and management - Amy Mufforotto
Week 8: Management of stable hepatitis B in General Practice - Dr Nicole Allard
Week 9: Abnormal LFTs what could it be? - Dr David Iser
Week 10: Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease - A/Prof Dr Marno Ryan
2024 Series
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
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
Viral Hepatitis patient and clinician resources
St Vincents Hospital Melbourne has developed evidence based resources, designed to be practical, visually engaging and incorporate the principles of health literacy to increase knowledge about viral hepatitis.
For more information contact Mieken Grant (RN, MPH) 0407 865 140 or mieken.grant@svha.org.au.
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