ConnectingQ Resources

Explore evidence, tools, programs and initiatives that support healthier, more active Queensland communities, or suggest your own resources and events to help grow shared knowledge and collaboration across the Network.
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Evidence and tools

Clinicians Hub

Resources and tools to support health professionals deliver preventative health care in their communities by engaging in conversations about positive
Case studies
Do you thing group

Case Study: Do Your Thing

Do Your Thing is an initiative of the ‘Building a Healthy Bundaberg’ Alliance (BaHB) with the ambitious goal of reducing
Evidence and tools
A family of 2 adults and 2 kids are preparing vegetables and a raw chicken in the kitchen.

Supporting people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities to make healthy choices

Teaching resources that support people from CALD communities to make healthy food choices and increase physical activity.
Evidence and tools
A mother and daughter drinking glasses of water behind a running kitchen tap.

Promoting healthy drinks resources

Promoting the message that tap water is safe to drink in Australia
Programs and campaigns
3 smiling children holding onto the edge of a swimming pool. One of the children is wearing swimming goggles on her head.

Healthy New Communities Project

Supporting people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities remain active and navigate the Australian food system
Case studies

Pick of the Crop

Resources to help schools get kids to eat more veg and fruit
Evidence and tools
A person is sitting on the floor with a laptop on their lap. They are surrounded y papers and a cup of coffee.

How supportive are workplace environments for sitting less and moving more?

A descriptive study of Australian workplaces participating in the BeUpstanding program.
Funding and support
A woman is making notes in a notebook while sitting in front of a laptop

Funding finder

Innovative interactive map encourages region to get active
Evidence and tools
Cyclists ride on the bike path in the city by a river

Know your burb

Innovative interactive map encourages region to get active
Engagement and partnerships
A person is sitting in front of an open laptop with a notebook and pen.

Queensland Health Services Planning Portal

Interactive dashboards and reports for Queensland Hospital and Health Service regions.
Evidence and tools
People walking and bike riding along an exercise path in Cairns.

Australian Urban Observatory (AUO)

A digital liveability planning platform that transforms complex urban data into easily understood liveability maps across Australia’s 21 largest cities.
Evidence and tools
A woman wearing a bike helmet putting a bike into a bike rack

Street design manual: Walkable neighbourhoods

Practical guide for the design and development of Queensland’s residential neighbourhoods.

Media and news

Latest articles

Read the latest Health and Wellbeing Queensland news, opinions and media releases.

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Media Release
HWQld Pick of the Crop children working in the outdoor school garden

The case for early screening: addressing the rise of type 2 diabetes in children

With nearly 1.3 million Australians living with type 2 diabetes and more than 300 new cases diagnosed every day, diabetes

News

Step out to join the 2026 Move Together Challenge

Daily movement is an essential ingredient to keeping healthy and well, and this year’s Move Together Challenge, from 3 August to

Media Release
Dr Robyn Littlewood, Professor Ian Lowe and Joanna Munro

Building a Prevention 2.0 ecosystem to tackle chronic disease

Across Australia, a worrying health pattern has been emerging: people are living longer yet developing chronic disease earlier and living

News
Backyard Cricket

New movement guidelines shift focus on 24-hour cycle for health

The Australian Government’s new 24-hour Movement Guidelines for Adults and Older Adults reshapes how we think about healthy living by

News
Chef with healthy meal options stands in front of cafeteria fridge

Hospitals achieve record results in healthy food, drink audit

Queensland’s public healthcare facilities are delivering record results in creating healthier food and drink environments, with the latest statewide audit

Media Release
Sara from CHQ standing in caffetteria setting

Queensland’s public hospitals on target for healthy options

Queensland’s public healthcare facilities are making it easier than ever for staff, visitors, and the public to access healthier food and drink

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