Australian Rotary Health

30 Years of Australian Rotary Health

Mental Health Research Project Grants & Scholarships, Indigenous Health Scholarships, Rural Medical and Nursing Scholarships and Funding Partners in numerous other Health fields have all been a focus for Australian Rotary Health Research Fund.

Pushed into action by the mystery surrounding sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), Ian Scott addressed the Rotary Club of Mornington on June 17, 1981, highlighting the need to fund more medical research in order to shed light on the mystery of the syndrome.

After 30 years, Ian Scott’s dream of funding research is still alive with Australian Rotary Health raising close to $27 million for medical research since its origin, $10 million of which contributing to advances in mental health, the main focus of Australian Rotary Health since 2000.

Australian Rotary Health will commemorate 30 years of service this August, celebrating three decades of providing funding for medical research and scholarships for healthcare professional

Have a Heart

Have a Heart (HAH) - Organ Donor Awareness

Many lives have been saved through individuals donating their organs. Our program aims to increase the number of donor organs avaliable. Read more

Great Australian Bike Ride

Australian Rotary Health Great Australian Bike Ride

Two hundred and four days – through tropical heat, arctic cold, gale force winds, dust storms, rain (it even rained mud!) – all balanced by wonderful support and hospitality from major sponsors, Rotarians, Rotary clubs, government (local, state and federal), police forces and the general public. Read more

Camp Getaway

Camp Getaway

Thousands of voluntary hours have already gone into redeveloping the site from the former basis of old army huts, to the self contained units with full disabled facilities, modern dormitories and the many improvements now available to people of all abilities. Read more

Friedreich Ataxia Dialogue

Friedreich Ataxia Dialogue - genetic neurological degenerative condition.

The Rotary Club of Brighton North aims to make a difference in as many ways as possible; to the sufferers, their families, people at risk of developing the disease, and to the doctors and researchers in the hope that they will discover a cure or a drug to slow down the disease. Read more

Cancer Research

Friends R 4 - Research into better cancer treatments and their side effects

After several of Ronnie's friends and acquaintances had been diagnosed with various blood, bone marrow and skin cancers - lymphoma, leukaemia, multiple myeloma and melanoma - Ronnie decided to set up Friends-R-4 as a way to fight these cancers. Read more

Know your numbers

Know Your Numbers - Stroke and Heart Attack risk - Are you really OK?

The Know Your Numbers Stroke Awareness program is about helping people know their blood pressure and whether they should seek professional advice. Read more

Bushfire Relief

Bushfire Relief - Black Saturday

While nearly 1 million dollars was raised by donation for the cause, this could never be enough to satisfy all genuine needs. Nevertheless, the funds have enabled development of contacts with survivors and their communities and establishment of a high level of trust between them and Rotary. Read more

P.A.C.E.

Partnerships Advancing Community Engagement (PACE)

PACE is Rotary engaging with the community through a process of research, consultation and analysis, developing partnerships, planning, implementing and monitoring to achieve a “hand up” for people in communities. Read more

Probus

Probus - Professional and Business

Probus is a Community Service project of Rotary International that had its beginnings in the United Kingdom in 1965-66.

The name PROBUS (from the words PROfessional and BUSiness) was adopted as the new clubs were directed at recruiting retired people from the professional and business world. Read more

Prostate Health

Community Partnerships - National Men's Health Ambassador Speaker Program

Through support from Rotary District 9800, the program was successful in applying for a Grant from the Federal Government for the National Men's Health Ambassador Speaker Program. Read more

RAGMSA raising MS Awarness

Rotarian Action Group of MS Awareness (RAGMSA)

RAGMSA is one of Rotary International's sixteen Action Groups established to promote MS awareness, encourage Rotarians and MS societies to collaborate to contribute via fundraising activities to MS research and provide support for people with MS (pwMS). Read more

Ovarian Cancer Research

Rotary Ovarian Cancer Reseach (RoCan)

This Year more than 1,500 Women will be diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer. Over 850 will die from this Disease.

This Project became a District 9800 project, supported by many Rotary Clubs with over $370,000 raised for research, to help find a Screening test for all Women in our community. Read more

Kokoda Project

Rotary Kokoda Project - Connecting the Community

This project is a Victoria Police programme with the support of The Rotary Club of Williamstown, taking youths from the high rise of Flemington to the hills of Kokoda, who are identified as having low self esteem and are disenfranchised in the community, lacking goals and direction in life and are at risk of not completing school. Read more

Mental Health

Mental Health Research

20% of Australian Adults are affected by some form of mental disorder very year. The most common forms of mental illness are anxiety disorders and depression.

Mental illness impacts not only on the life of the individual but it also has a ripple affect on their families, their workmates, their friends, and the whole community. Read more

Food for people in need

Second Bite - Delivering fresh food to the people of Melbourne and Hobart

The Second Bite organisation has more than 300 committed volunteers and collects on average more than 60 tonnes per month of fresh food for 1.4 million nutritious meals to help people struggling to make ends meet in both Melbourne and Hobart. Read more