Education and Training
FREE tailored hepatitis B and hepatitis C training for your team or workplace anywhere in Victoria
Free interactive and evidence based workforce development provided in your workplace or online. The education is tailored 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.
How it works:
- Get in touch with the Victorian Viral Hepatitis Educator at mieken.grant@svha.org.au or on 0407 865 140
- Let me know what training your interested in (Hepatitis B or C or both)
- Let me know the roles and learning needs of the audience
- Let me know what dates and times suit you
- I will then get back to you with suggested dates, times and ideas
2025 Viral Hepatitis Workshops with partner organisations
'Hepatitis B Made Easy' education 2025
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:
- Wednesday 12 March 2025
- Tuesday 17 June 2025
- Thursday 25 September 2025
- Wednesday 26 November 2025
REGISTER HERE
'Bloody Serious Facts': Workshops 2025
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.
- Thursday 27 February 2025 (Face to face) 9:00am - 12:30pm
- Thursday 17 April 2025: (Face to face) 9:00 - 12:30pm
- Thursday 15 May 2025: (Online) 10:00am - 12:00pm
- Thursday 24 July 2025: (Face to face) 9:00am - 12:30pm
- Thursday 18 September 2025: (Face to face) 9:00am - 12:30pm
- Thursday 16 October 2025: (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.
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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