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International Women's Day with Victoria's Chief Health Officer Dr Clare Looker

The Department of Rural Health, University of Melbourne invites you to an International Women's Day Event featuring Dr Clare Looker, Victoria's Chief Health Officer.

When:: Saturday 5th of March, 2022, at 5:30pm
Where:: Department of Rurla Health, University of Melbourne, 49 Graham St, Shepparton
Cost:: Free
Contact:: Di Doyle on (03) 5823 4512 or
Website:: go.unimelb.edu.au/u4a8

Time: 5:30 - 6:30pm

Clare is an experienced public health physician and has held multiple senior leadership roles in the Government Department's public health team over the years, including throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. In this role, Dr Looker has various roles and responsibilities under Victoria's Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 and also undertakes a number of statutory functions under other health related legislation.

Clare will share insights into her career journey, reflecting on her time through medical and clinical schools, (Clare graduated from the University of Melbourne, Rural Clinical School in Shepparton in 2005) to roles in environmental health, infectious disease epidemiology and public health medicine as Deputy Chief Health Officer. She will delve into the challenges and triumphs of her journey and describe how she sees the role of Chief Health Officer in the pandemic, and beyond.

Clare is passionate about encouraging women to pursue rewarding careers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM). She is mindful of the key challenges for women in science and medicine and will share her own experience of how other women have shaped her career journey.
These unique challenges include the gender health gap and how COVID-19 highlighted health discrepancies, particularly in women's health.