Integrated Health Promotion

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Recommended: Models and approaches of health promotion

Kinjal Waghela
Integrated Health Promotion Program Coordinator at Plenty Valley Community Health

Melbourne, Australia | Government Relations

Summary

I am an accomplished leader and health promotion with extensive service delivery, health education and community engagement expertise acquired within a variety of health care settings. I have demonstrated a high level of proficiency in developing and executing innovative strategies, projects and programs aimed at promoting a range of health services whilst leading, upskilling and motivating multidisciplinary teams. With the capacity to collaborate and engage with secondary and tertiary institutions, …show more content…

- Act as an agent change to actively evaluate, improve and update policies, procedures and the wider framework for Health Literacy.
- Provide a range of services to culturally and linguistically diverse individuals including Aboriginal and Torre Strait Islander clients.
- Design, develop and implement a range of education programs at secondary schools to inform on a number of issues.
- Collaborate with a range of organisations to implement projects targeted to a number of vulnerable population groups.
- Develop and maintain positive professional relationships with external service providers, agencies and associations.
- Lead health promotion activities to provide programs to refugees, people seeking asylum and newly arrived migrants.
- Facilitate a number of events and develop and delivery social media marketing campaigns to support the Health Promotion Plan.
- Comply with organisation policies and procedures in the delivery of events including risk management and health and safety plans.
- Measure the reach and related outcomes of events and campaigns to provide reports to relevant funding agencies and …show more content…

Volunteering

Company Name
Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes

Title
Volunteer

Location
Mumbai, India

Time Period
Dec 2009 – Apr 2010

Description
- Collected, analysed and reported on data from various registers at women’s cell to study referral patterns from hospital staff.
- Developed frameworks for a Management Information System to enable further monitoring at the women’s cell.
- Designed, developed and implemented policies and procedures to improve service delivery and operational efficiencies.
- Contributed to collection and compilation of data to support research projects from diverse information sources.
- Contributed to the Research Project regarding the Public Health Sector Response to Attempted Suicide in Women through the collection and collation of data.
- Participated in a research study on Hospital Disaster Preparedness, liaising with representatives from four hospitals to collect information regarding staff strength and structure.

Skills & Endorsements

As per existing profile

Projects
Networking
Microsoft Office

Education

College: Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health
Course: Health Literacy Development
Date:

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