Mentoring@MSPGH
Welcome from Head of School
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
Mentoring@MSPGH
Find out how it works
Leadership Skills - Self assessment
Leadership skills development exercise
Induction Pack for Mentees
What you need to know before you start the mentoring process
Induction Pack for Mentors
What you need to know before you start the mentoring process
Early Career Researcher Network
Supporting early to mid-career researchers in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Supporting Women in MDHS (SWiM)
Promoting gender equity and academic promotion of women in our Faculty
Mentoring@MSPGH
Mentoring Advisory Group
Professor Eva Alisic
Associate Professor Gregory Armstrong
Ms Amy Bhagwandeen
Dr Natalie Carvalho
Ds Erika Martino
Professor Rob Moodie
Dr Angela Nicolas
Dr Marissa Shields
Ms Rose Story
Enquiries
Mentoring@MSPGH Advisory Group
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
The University of Melbourne
207-221 Bouverie St
Melbourne VICTORIA 3004
AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61 3 9035 9663
Email: mspgh-mentoring@unimelb.edu.au