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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News
Two young woman walk together on a foot path wearing activewear

Help us make our mark on the 2032 Olympic Games

As the 2032 Games approaches, the focus is not only on the event itself, but on the legacy it will leave – for Brisbane and across

Media Release
Three people run with surfboards into the ocean.

Queensland’s call to action on obesity

Health and Wellbeing Queensland is calling for urgent action this World Obesity Day (4 March), as alarming new statistics reveal

News
Penny, a my health for life participant

Building a healthier Queensland — No matter the postcode 

Connecting with Queenslanders like Penny West, who lives and works in a remote community, highlights the impact of Health and Wellbeing Queensland’s commitment to working

News
Woman walking her dog with her son on a bike.

Healthy is Happening – Join the movement empowering Queenslanders to thrive! 

Queensland, it’s time to rise and shine! Health and Wellbeing Queensland has launched Healthy is Happening, a bold, vibrant and

News
3 people stand in a crop field holding vegetables

Vegetables: affordable, nutritious … and missing from Australian plates  

Australia’s persistently low vegetable consumption, significant chronic disease burden, and increasing food insecurity have brought Health and Wellbeing Queensland, the Outdoor Media

Media Release
Three women in podcast setting for Clinician’s Guide to Women and Girls’ Health

Clinician’s Guide to Women and Girls’ Health: new podcast series launched to strengthen care across life stages

Health and Wellbeing Queensland has launched a new nine-part podcast series designed to empower health professionals to deliver more confident, informed and empathetic

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