Position Description:

This position is responsible for the overall management and coordination of the Women's Health at Work Program including research, planning, development, implementation and evaluation of projects, which address workplace and health issues for women of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The position also entails liaison with employers, unions and advocacy groups and is responsible to an Advisory Group of key stakeholders and experts in the areas of work being developed at any one time.

Publications

• Changing the Mindset - experiences of women from non-English speaking backgrounds with disability in business services - Hickson F and D'eagher L. 2003
• Employed Women of African Communities - research project report and community profiles Strong, V. Garton, L. Nkrumah, J. 2005.
• Reducing Musculoskeletal Injuries Incurred by Women Working in Market Gardens - a pilot research project conducted with women of Chinese background in the Sydney Basin, Crowhter A & Strong V, 2007.
• Chinese Speaking Women Working in Market Gardens Across the Sydney Basin. ' Early Project Development'. Co-authored
• "The Sydney Basin Market Garden Project" Progress Report Revised November 2003 Co-authored
• Strong. V. (2001). Women's Health at Work Program. Strategic Direction and Business Plan (2001 - 2003).
• Strong. V. (2004) Women's Health at Work Program. Strategic Direction and Business Plan (2004 2007).

Conferences

• Australian Health Promotion Conference 2002, Co-author/co-presenter "Capacity building - serendipity or design "
• FECCA Conference 2002 Co-Author/Presenter "Working Smarter"
• Diversity in Health Conference 2003 Co-author "The Boss talks about rights and standards "
• NSW WHN Assoc Conference 2003 Co-author " Advocacy- great opportunities emerge when the wheels fall off!"
• Strengthening Communities Conference 2003 Co-author "Building communities - reality or rhetoric?"
• Diversity in Health Conference 2005 Co-author 'Out Of Little Things Big Things Grow'