Refugee Health Fellows Program

Jun 13, 2023

Refugee Health Fellows Program

The Department of Health in Victoria has funded Refugee Health fellow positions to provide support and advice to health professionals. Fellows are available by telephone and can often arrange to see you in your practice. Fellows can offer assistance with diagnosis and management, and can provide information on referral pathways for refugee and asylum seeker clients.

The Refugee Health Fellows program exists to assist health care providers, health services and practitioners in outer metropolitan, rural and regional Victoria to support newly arrived refugee populations. Fellows are available by telephone and can often arrange to see you in your practice. Fellows can offer assistance with diagnosis and management, and can provide information on referral pathways for refugee and asylum seeker clients.  Fellows can offer assistance with diagnosis and management and can provide information on referral pathways for refugee and asylum seeker clients. They also provide education sessions as requested.

There are three paediatric fellows based at the Royal Children’s Hospital, two adult health fellows at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and a refugee health fellow at Monash Health. Their work includes education, secondary consultations, support and referral information to primary care providers, assistance with management of urgent health issues in airport arrivals.

Royal Melbourne Hospital 

ID Physician Dr. Janet Pasricha

GP Joanne Gardiner

GP Refugee Assessment Clinic Tuesdays 9-12

Call: 03 93427000 (Ask for the Refugee Health Fellow)

Email: refugee.fellow@rmh.org.au

 

 

Monash Health

GP Dr. Larissa Wale

Call: 03 9792 8100 (Ask for Refugee Health Fellow)

More information: https://monashhealth.org/services/refugee-health-and-wellbeing/

 

Royal Children’s Hospital

3 Senior Paediatric Trainees, multiple clinics and sites

Call: 9345 5522 (Page 7142, Ask for the Paediatric Refugee Health Fellow)

Email: refugee.fellow@rch.org.au

 

More information

The Victorian Refugee Health Network reiterates it’s auspicing agency’s acknowledgement of country:

The primary locations of the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture Inc., Brunswick, Dallas, Dandenong, Sunshine, and our outpost location in Ringwood, are on the traditional lands of the Kulin nation.  In keeping with Foundation House’s aspiration to heal individuals and communities we recognise the loss of land, children, language, lore and spiritual and physical wellbeing of the people of the Kulin nation and other Indigenous Victorians due to the impact of colonisation.

We believe that acknowledging the past and its impact on the present is vital in building strong Victorian communities. We recognise the survival and enduring strengths of Victorian Indigenous culture in spite of such dispossession and aim to build respectful and informed relationships with the Victorian Indigenous community based on the acknowledgment of their unique position as the traditional owners of Victoria. As such, Foundation House is committed to the acknowledgment and participation of Indigenous Victorians within Foundation House events and this is reflected in our official protocols.

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The Victorian Refugee Health Network reiterates it’s auspicing agency’s acknowledgement of country:

The primary locations of the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture Inc., Brunswick, Dallas, Dandenong, Sunshine, and our outpost location in Ringwood, are on the traditional lands of the Kulin nation.  In keeping with Foundation House’s aspiration to heal individuals and communities we recognise the loss of land, children, language, lore and spiritual and physical wellbeing of the people of the Kulin nation and other Indigenous Victorians due to the impact of colonisation.

We believe that acknowledging the past and its impact on the present is vital in building strong Victorian communities. We recognise the survival and enduring strengths of Victorian Indigenous culture in spite of such dispossession and aim to build respectful and informed relationships with the Victorian Indigenous community based on the acknowledgment of their unique position as the traditional owners of Victoria. As such, Foundation House is committed to the acknowledgment and participation of Indigenous Victorians within Foundation House events and this is reflected in our official protocols.

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