Hepatitis NSW Speaker Service

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The power of a personal story is universally inspiring, and our Speaker Service enables you to greatly enhance your upcoming educational events/workshops by changing community attitudes and challenging stigma experienced by people living with viral hepatitis.

The Speaker Service gives people who are affected by viral hepatitis the opportunity to talk about the psychosocial or medical related aspects of their experience of living with hepatitis C or hepatitis B.

“The speaker was absolutely fabulous! She is such an inspiration and was so confident and frank talking about her experiences. The participants were all so appreciative and gave her a huge applause at the end!”
Speaker: Grace W. from Sonja Hill (ASHM)

Witnessing personal accounts of people’s lived experience of hepatitis B or hepatitis C develops an understanding of how issues such as stigma and discrimination impact on access to healthcare and support services. This has been shown to be an extremely effective strategy in improving attitudes, values and behaviours of the broader community and healthcare workforce.

Inviting a Hepatitis NSW Speaker to present a 15 minute account of their story, with an opportunity for audiences and organisers to ask questions at the end, provides a unique opportunity to:

• hear first-hand personal experiences of people living with hepatitis B or C
• enhance existing training & education initiatives with personal perspectives
• challenge the myths and stereotypes surrounding hepatitis B or C
• address discriminatory attitudes in the workplace and elsewhere
• provide a holistic view of health (medical, social, personal)
• gain insight into the psychosocial issues associated with living with hepatitis B or C

Our Speakers are trained in public speaking and share their stories with participants as part of our broader hepatitis B and hepatitis C education sessions, and at community workshops and events. Our Speakers with lived experience of hepatitis B can deliver their personal stories in English, Chinese (Mandarin) and Korean. A suite of video presentations will be available soon.

Our Speakers options include:

• In-person at event location – Speaker presentation in person at event location
• In-person at online event – Speaker presentation in person at an online event
• Video presentation with Speaker in person for Q&A – Speaker’s video is shown at an online event, followed by Speaker joining afterwards for audience
• Speaker video presentation at an event (no Speaker in person)

For details and a quote: please email Susanne at [email protected] and copy Grace at [email protected]

*hours worked Mon – Fri before 6am/after 8pm incur a loading

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