Multicultural Health Week has been held annually since 2009 to raise awareness of health issues experienced by culturally and linguistically diverse communities and way 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).
Target groups for Multicultural Health Week include health staff, culturally and linguistically diverse consumers and their communities.
Multicultural Health Week Themes:
- Promoting physical activity 2023
- Cancer Screening (2022)
- Health Literacy and Safe Use of Medicines (2020)
- Health Literacy of New and emerging communities (2019)
- Talk. Listen. Ask. for better health (2018)
- Women’s Journey to Good Health (2017)
- Caring for Carers (2016)
- Get involved in your health care (2015)
- Healthy workers (2014)
- Working together for safe, quality care (2013)
- Healthy Kids (2012)
- Health information in your language: the role of libraries (2011)