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Teachers of year 7-10 students will now have access to a range of new vaping education resources designed to teach young people about the dangers of vaping and help create healthy...
Media release
4 min read
11 Jan 2024
https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/news-publications/media-releases/victorian-first-curriculum-aligned-vaping-education-resources-launched
Research to boost action for a healthier, fairer Victoria.
Funding page
4 min read
23 May 2023
https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/funding/impact-research-grants-0
New VicHealth research has highlighted how caring responsibilities and fears of being judged for prioritising exercise continue to prevent mums from getting active throughout Victoria. The...
Media release
4 min read
9 Oct 2023
https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/news-publications/media-releases/girl-can-week-returns-support-mums-make-time-movement
Funding is available to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led organisations across Victoria. Strong Young Mob is a committee made up of younger (and some older) members from Aboriginal-led community organisations. 
Funding page
9 min read
7 Dec 2023
https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/funding/strong-young-mob
Quit, VicHealth, and Cancer Council Victoria applaud today’s announcement from the Victorian Government to introduce a retail licensing scheme to protect Victorians from the harms of tobacco.  
Media release
3 min read
28 Mar 2024
https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/news-publications/media-releases/victorian-tobacco-retail-licensing-scheme-commitment
In an Australian first, Monash University and VicHealth have teamed up to develop “Kids Building Future Healthy”, a Minecraft Education Edition, that calls on healthy heroes aged 9 to 12 to...
Media release
3 min read
20 Jun 2023
https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/news-publications/media-releases/game-new-minecraft-mission-builds-healthy-communities-one-block
The clock is ticking: new national health scorecard sheds light on unprecedented challenges threatening the wellbeing of Australia’s...
Media release
4 min read
27 Nov 2023
https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/news-publications/media-releases/our-childrens-wellbeing-under-threat
A new Quit campaign highlighting the risks of vaping is being launched today alongside new research by Cancer Council Victoria’s Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer. 
Media release
5 min read
26 May 2023
https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/news-publications/media-releases/first-its-kind-quit-campaign-and-online-hub-urge-victorians-see
Applications are now closed. The VicHealth Sustainable Development Goals Partnership Grant Round aims to build collaborative research partnerships with the potential to address the impact of...
Funding page
4 min read
15 Feb 2021
https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/funding/vichealth-sustainable-development-goals-partnership
With more than two in three Australian adults and one in four children above a healthy weight*, researchers say food availability, affordability and marketing can contribute to bad choices. Excess...
Media release
4 min read
13 Oct 2022
https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/news-publications/media-releases/commercial-factors-driving-unhealthy-diets
Artwork by Dexx (Gunditjmara/Boon Wurrung) ‘Mobs Coming Together’ 2022
VicHealth acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land. We pay our respects to all Elders past, present and future.
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Artwork Credit: Dexx (Gunditjmara/Boon Wurrung) ‘Mobs Coming Together’ 2022, acrylic on canvas. Learn more about this artwork.