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Our Mentoring Program supports our career and professional objectives as individuals and as a School.

I am very pleased to announce that the Mentoring@MSPGH Program, which has been running since 2021, has commenced again this year. At our School, we work with public health leaders, as well as great people leaders who demonstrate our core values, including collaboration and teamwork, compassion, respect, integrity, and accountability.

The program is designed to support both academic and professional staff at all levels, enabling a sharing of our skills and expertise. While this program is an exciting initiative and an important way for staff to contribute as leaders of the School, it is only one way to support our overall expectation of mentoring at the School. We are all involved in supporting these values through our interactions with our colleagues every day. We all informally, and in many cases formally (through other programs), have mentoring interactions every day and I encourage that to continue.

We have grown the Mentoring@MSPGH program from 30 mentor/mentee pairs in 2022 to 48 pairs in 2023, with an unprecedented number of mentors volunteering for the program. This incredible growth is a tribute to the quality of the program and the mentors who volunteer their time to it, but also the enthusiasm of the mentees who participate and the value they gain from their participation. A number of mentees have become mentors which attests to how the program has helped us develop a mentoring culture at the School. Of course the program would not be the success it is without the leadership and stewardship of Dr Angela Nicolas, Rob Moodie, and the efforts of Kylie Gilmartin.

The program offers individual matching of mentors and mentees based on the preferences and needs of mentees and the skills of mentors. A panel of senior staff, who also know well many of the mentees and mentors, complete this matching process to ensure the best possible matches.

You can read more about the program here: Participant Guidelines

I encourage you to consider registering as a mentee or mentor for the program when the opportunity arises again in 2024. This is an important way for all of us to show our leadership and of course as always, never stop learning ourselves. Being a mentor is a great opportunity to share what you know, and support others to achieve tangible benefits in their career.

Professor Nancy Baxter 
Head of Melbourne School of Population and Global Health