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Multicultural Health Week has been held annually since 2009 to raise awareness of health issues experienced by culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities and ways of addressing these issues. Multicultural Health Week is funded by the NSW Ministry of Health (MoH) and coordinated by the NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service (MHCS).
The theme for 2020 is: Health Literacy and Safe Use of Medicines. Extension of the Health Literacy theme allows for MHCS and key stakeholders to build upon work undertaken in 2018 and 2019.
This year’s Multicultural Health Week runs from 7 to 11 September with the launch to be held on 7 September 2020 through a digital platform.
Multicultural Health Week 2020 Launch
Ms Elizabeth Koff, Secretary for Health – Video message to launch Multicultural Health Week 2020
Four resources will be developed this year, they are:
- Multicultural Health Week Poster (electronic version only)
- Safe use of medicine video (multilingual)
- Safe use of medicine factsheet (multilingual)
- Social media post suggestions (multilingual)
Media Release: Multicultural Health Week 2020 - Safe Use of Medicine
Safe Medicines Campaign launch - SBS World News coverage