Dates and Times
03 May 2019
11:45 - 13:30
Location
On-Campus
Building: 1
Room: 21
Other: 1A21 Theatre - The Hub (located behind Mizzuna’s Café)
Organiser
Holly Northam
Speakers
Georgina Byron, CEO of The Snow Foundation
Enquiry
Holly Northam
Event about:
RHD Take Heart | Public Screening at UC
This May 3, we invite you to learn more about Rheumatic Heart Disease and how we can stop it in Australia by attending a free lunch and screening of Take Heart: The Quest to Rid Australasia of Rheumatic Heart Disease.
Most Australians have never heard of Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD), which was largely eliminated from non-Indigenous communities in the 1960s, yet two Indigenous Australians die per week from it. In fact, Australia has some of the highest rates of RHD in the world and children as young as two have been diagnosed with severe RHD that requires open-heart surgery and decades of painful injections.
This award-winning documentary reveals the incredible true-life stories of young people living with RHD, their families and the health workers caring for them. You will witness the issues that can contribute to RHD, the diagnosis, the treatment and the socio-political and economic challenges of living with RHD. It will also arm you with the information you need to help eliminate RHD in Australia.
Additional Information
A working-style lunch will be provided on arrival for all attendees.
Seats are limited, so please register your attendance to Holly.Northam@canberra.edu.au
For more information on Take Heart:
Take Heart Website
Take Heart TV Channel YouTube
UC acknowledges the Ngunnawal people, traditional custodians of the lands where Bruce campus is situated. We wish to acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of Canberra and the region. We also acknowledge all other First Nations Peoples on whose lands we gather.