LEE KERNAGHAN
Country music singer and 2008 Australian of the Year. He is currently recording a new album to be released later this year.
ADAM RAMANAUSKAS
Former AFL Premiership player for Essendon Football Club. After surviving cancer, he has gone on to be an ambassador for FitDeck and a founding member of Call to Arms.
MICHAEL KASPROWICZ
Former Queensland and Australian Test Cricketer. He currently is a commentator for Fox Sports.
STEVEN RENOUF
Former NRL player for the Brisbane Broncos. He lives with Type 1 Diabetes and works with the Queensland’s department of Sport and Recreation.
GARY BELCHER
Former NRL player for the Canberra Raiders and he also represented Queensland and Australia in Rugby League. He is now a Fox Sports commentator.
TREVOR HENDY
Unchallenged as the “greatest Ironman in the world”, including winning 6 Australian Open Ironman titles. Now retired from both Ironman competitions and his second sport, kayaking, he tours Australia speaking from his success to motivate others.
Dr ROB WALTERS
Department of Health and Aging Men’s Health Ambassador and a member of the Australian General Practice Network.
PROFESSOR JOHN MacDONALD
Department of Health and Aging Men’s Health Ambassador and President of Australasian Men’s Health Forum. He is a member of the UWS School of Biomedical Sciences, and co-director of the Men's Health Information and Resource Centre.
BRUCE RITCHIE
Editor of Men’s Health Magazine.
DR ROSIE KING
Renowned sex therapist. She worked in General Practice for twelve year before specialising in sexual therapy and relationship counseling.
PROFESSOR DAVID de KRETSER, A.C.
The Governor of Victoria. He is a Department of Health and Aging Men’s Health Ambassador and Doctor of Medicine. He founded the medical research group, Andrology Australia.
TIM MATHIESON
Department of Health and Aging Men’s Health Ambassador and Beyond Blue Ambassador.
BILL NOONAN
Branch secretary of Transport Workers Union of Australia (Victorian/Tasmania branch). He is a Department of Health and Aging Men’s Health Ambassador and the deputy Chairman of the Blue Ribbon Foundation.
Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston AC, AFC
Was appointed as The Chief of the Defence Force on July 4, 2005. In the Australia Day Honours of 2008, Houston was advanced to a Companion of the Order of Australia.
Men’s Health Week is being held from the 15th-21st June 2009.
The week is dedicated to increase awareness of men’s health issues.
Men’s Health Week provides an opportunity to increase awareness of important male-specific health issues. It celebrates the contribution men make to family, work and the community, but reminds us that men don’t need to ‘tough it out’ or ‘go it alone’, and they shouldn’t.
Men’s Health Week 2009 focuses on preventative health and healthy behaviours that men can adopt in relation to physical, mental health and sexual health and function.
On this website you’ll find a lot of useful health information as well as some fantastic services providing help and information for men. Take your time to look around.
The events page has details of some great things happening in the community you can be a part of. Or alternatively, list your own men’s health event on our calendar.
International Men’s Health Week (IMHW) has been celebrated in Australia since 2003. Throughout the 1990s various Australian States and Territories set aside a week to highlight men’s health issues. These weeks were celebrated at different times of the years and each had its own focus and priorities. For a history of Men’s Health Week in Australia click here
