EXHIBITORS
A Better Choice
A Better Choice is a Queensland first public health approach designed to make it easier for Queenslanders to access healthy food and drink options in places outside the home. A Better Choice uses the principles of choice architecture to guide consumers towards the healthier options. This initiative ensures that healthier products are easily accessible, strategically placed, promoted, and competitively priced, so that they become the easiest and most obvious choice. It also reduces the availability of less healthy food and drinks while placing limitations on their promotion. These actions empower consumers to look for the healthier options that support their wellbeing.
ConnectingQ
Health and Wellbeing Queensland has created a network and an online platform called ConnectingQ, a place where people connect, share and learn together — online and in person — to create active and healthy places. A network of individuals working across disciplines, sectors and regions in Queensland, members are encouraged to share resources that enable and empower individuals, use stories and archives to establish and engage in meaningful exchange and participate in virtual online events to support learning with practical tools and engaging content.
Deadly Choices
The Deadly Choices Healthy Lifestyle program, supported by Health and Wellbeing Queensland, initially focused on chronic disease reduction among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; supporting community members with tobacco cessation, while ensuring implementation of healthy habits into peoples’ everyday lives. This is the hallmark program which has evolved into a comprehensive commitment by the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health program, to educate and empower Queensland’s Indigenous populations around the importance of healthy eating and exercise, the dangers of smoking and sugar consumption, and significantly, the underlying value of regular health checks at your local community-controlled health service. This objective to improve knowledge and understanding of what good, positive health practice looks like has allowed individuals to gain confidence in taking control of their own health now, and into the future.
Gather + Grow
Gather + Grow is focussed on improving food security in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Far North Queensland and the Lower Gulf through a combination of local and whole-of-system actions.
In partnership, we are building a multi-strategic response to improve food security by addressing its barriers and amplifying community strengths. We are engaging with communities, and across sectors, to identify and implement solutions that will have meaningful, lasting impact.
Logan Healthy Living
Logan Healthy Living is an innovative approach to chronic disease prevention and management, delivered by UQ Health Care in partnership with Health and Wellbeing Queensland. The collaborative success we have achieved through our strategic alliance demonstrates a blueprint for scalable, integrated chronic disease prevention and care. Through partnership, we have the opportunity to broaden access to preventive healthcare, empowering individuals to proactively manage their wellbeing.
My Health 4 Life
Health coaches help modify unhealthy behaviours and create healthier ones through one-on-one phone coaching, group sessions in local areas, online, or culturally adapted approaches for CALD and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Pick of the Crop
Pick of the Crop is a whole-school healthy eating initiative that aims to increase opportunities for Queensland primary school children to learn about and eat more vegetables and fruit. The program is supporting Queensland state schools to boost their student’s consumption of vegetables and fruit through locally agreed school actions. Since it’s establishment in 2020, it has been in 161 Queensland State primary schools, reaching over 31,900 students. It is currently available in the following regions:
• Far North Queensland
• North Queensland (including Bowen, the Burdekin and Townsville)
• North Coast (including Bundaberg, Wide Bay, Gympie and Sunshine Coast regions)
• Darling Downs South West
• Metropolitan South (including Redlands and Ipswich)
• South East (including Logan)
Podsquad
Podsquad is a free, play-based wellbeing program helping children aged 5-12 years and their families as they build healthy habits together. The Podsquad app supports lasting change by exploring the topics of nutrition, physical activity, and sleep through a behavioural science framework. Its content has been developed by childhood health experts and co-designed with more than 300 Queensland families.
The National Heart Foundation
The National Heart Foundation of Australia is a leading non-profit organisation dedicated to fighting cardiovascular disease. Since 1959, the Foundation has been at the forefront of heart health research, prevention, and support services. It champions evidence-based initiatives to reduce heart disease risk, promotes healthy lifestyles, and advocates for effective heart health policies. Through innovative programs, community outreach, and educational resources, the Heart Foundation strives to improve heart health and save lives across Australia.
QCWA Country Kitchens
QCWA Country Kitchens program is delivered in partnership with the QCWA, QCWA members and the community. The program supports Queenslanders to develop their food and nutrition literacy through 5 key messages; get more fruit and veg into your meals; cook at home; be aware of sugar in your drinks; check your portion size and sit less, move more.
The program team designs, develops and delivers training and support to a volunteer workforce, to develop food and nutrition literacy and health promotion skills. The key messages are incorporated in all program activities, including those delivered in communities by trained volunteer facilitators
Queensland Association of School Tuckshops
The Queensland Association of School Tuckshops (QAST) is a not-for-profit membership association working with Queensland school communities to build capacity, confidence and connections in Queensland school tuckshops.
Their vision is healthy tuckshops, healthy schools, healthy children. They aim to inspire and enable school communities, helping children make healthy food and drink choices for life.
The Healthier Tuckshops Program is a proud partnership between QAST and Health and Wellbeing Queensland. The program provides information, tools and resources to support school tuckshops in providing nutritious, hygienic and economically viable food services for all Queensland schools.
Queensland Cancer Council
Cancer Council Queensland is Queensland’s leading non-government cancer organisation that interfaces with the community. Our mission is to lead all Queenslanders in a partnership against cancer and to ensure no Queenslander is left navigating cancer alone. We bring over sixty years of experience in conducting high quality research and translate this research into the provision of quality care and information services, We are a not-for-profit entity, working in close alignment with a broad network of education, health philanthropic, industry and community partners.
Quitline
Quitline Queensland (13 7848) offers client-centred, and culturally sensitive telephone-based support for quitting smoking and vaping. The service is provided by trained counsellors who are attentive to vulnerable groups' unique challenges. Quitline has a dedicated team of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander counsellors available. Select priority populations can receive a program that combines behavioural counselling with up to twelve weeks of Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT). The NRT (patches and gum/lozenges) is posted directly to the client's home. Clients who complete a program with counselling and NRT are 6 times more likely to quit compared to those who attempt to quit unassisted.
Wellness my way
Following an online health and wellbeing assessment, Wellness my Way provides personalised support through a telephone coach who supports individuals to develop a tailored health action plan, and to continue their health journey through a recommended program or resources that can be accessed online, via phone or face to face in the community.
10,000 Steps
The program supports people to increase their awareness and participation in physical activity by tracking steps, setting goals, and finding ways to be active as a part of their everyday lives. Our flexible and scalable range of strategies and resources can be tailored by workplaces, communities and stakeholders to support physical activity change through environments, policies and activities that connect people and places.
Acknowledgement of Country
Health and Wellbeing Queensland, and Queensland Health, respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners and custodians on the lands from across Queensland.
We pay our respects to the Elders past and present for they are the holders of the memories, traditions, the culture and aspirations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across Queensland.
About Us
Health and Wellbeing Queensland (HWQld) is the state’s prevention agency, committed to creating a healthier and fairer future for Queensland. Together, we can create a future where all Queenslanders have the best chance to lead a healthier life, no matter who they are or where they live.
Queensland Health provides strategic leadership and direction to the Queensland public health system. The department delivers expert health system governance, statewide clinical health support services, information and communication technologies, health promotion and disease prevention strategies, urgent patient retrieval services, health infrastructure planning and corporate support services in partnership with 16 Hospital and Health Services (HHSs) across the state.