COVID-19: A forum for young people from Canterbury Bankstown
Event Information
About this event
We're calling on young people to join the conversation and share their thoughts, hopes, challenges and concerns in relation to COVID-19 and the vaccine.
Hear from our expert panel on topics including: COVID-19 facts and fiction, the vaccine, leadership, and social media information and manipulation.
Who: Young people aged 12-25 years from the Canterbury-Bankstown LGA
Where: Online
When: 3-4pm, Thursday 9 September
Speakers include:
- Jihad Dib (MP for Lakemba)
- Joshua Karras (PhD - soc.med expert)
- Dr Zainab Ridha (Haematologist)
Dr Zainab Ridha is a haematology registrar at Liverpool Hospital, training to become a specialist in diseases of the blood and blood cancers. She completed her Bachelor of Science in 2012 at the University of Auckland and followed on to earn a Doctor of Medicine and Surgery at the ANU in 2016. Following graduation, she has worked in several hospitals across the ACT and NSW in both metropolitan and rural areas. Originally from Iraq, Zainab has a strong passion for cross-cultural medicine and has been a keen advocate of health promotion in the current pandemic.
Registration is recommended but not essential.
Organiser The City of Canterbury Bankstown
Organiser of COVID-19: A forum for young people from Canterbury Bankstown
The new City of Canterbury Bankstown was proclaimed by the NSW Government on 12 May 2016, replacing the former Bankstown and Canterbury Councils, becoming the largest Council in NSW, by population, with 367,000 residents.
Council provides a number of arts, cultural, leisure, educational and recreational facilities and services for our community. These include:
- Multicultural services
- Aged and Disability services
- Community Safety
- Women and Children services
- Youth services
