The Health Promotion team work hard throughout all areas of EACH.  The team includes:

Maggie Palmer - Health Promotion Program Manager

Maggie migrated from "sunny" Scotland in February 2003 with her husband and two sons. Maggie began life as a Registered General Nurse working in acute hospital settings before very quickly moving in to Health Promotion. She has been a Health Promotion Practitioner for the last sixteen years, along with her family, love of food, travel and wine is her great passion for health promotion.

Maggie has worked as a volunteer with breast cancer care services and also as a Sexual Health Advisor with Gay Men’s Health services. 

Her Health Promotion career has included working across all of the health promotion settings education, health community, workplace and prisons. Her passion lies in working with others to “spread the health promotion message”. Maggie enjoys reading and writing (romance but don’t tell any one) caravanning, great Aussie food and wine but could do without the Aussie wildlife especially the eight legged kind.

Desiree Terrill - Health promotion Officer

Desiree has a strong passion for public health and has been working in the field of Health Promotion for the past nine years. Following completion of a Bachelor of Applied Science (double major in Health Promotion / major Human Resource Management) at Deakin University, she spent five years working in health promotion at a busy General Practice, and then moved into working with Divisions of General Practice. 

Desiree joined the new dynamic Health Promotion team at EACH in May 2008 and has the portfolio of working with culturally and linguistically diverse communities, as well as workplace health promotion. Strengthening community action, increasing capacity to empower individuals, and expanding partnerships for health are some of the key health promotion action areas of focus.  Desiree enjoys spending time with her husband and two children, and loves the theatre and travel. She is half way through completing a Masters of Public Health and has a strong interest in public health policy.  Desiree looks forward to working in the exciting health promotion team at EACH that strives to improve health for all people and strengthening health equity.

Maria Nicolaou (Loupetis) - Health Promotion Officer

Maria completed a Bachelor of Nursing and a Bachelor of Applied Science (Health Promotion) at Deakin University in 2002. She enjoyed three years of cardio-thoracic nursing at Cabrini and Monash Hospitals. In 2005, Maria ventured into the Health Promotion Field as a volunteer at Boroondara Local Government before becoming a Health Promotion Officer at Women’s Health East and discovering her passion for Health Promotion.

Maria has now been working at EACH since May 2008 in the Health Promotion team and is enjoying her focus on improving health inequities and capacity building for health promotion. To further develop her skills in this field, Maria, commenced her Masters in Public Health in 2008. Her commitment to health promotion is also carried out through her involvement with the Australian Health Promotion Association’s Victorian Branch. With her work at EACH, study and an casual nursing shifts, Maria makes sure she has time for her other passions, spending time with her family and friends and lets not forget any events that revolve around food and conversations!!

Elizabeth Senior - Health Promotion Officer

Liz has been working in the public health area for almost 30 years. This includes time working as a Dental Therapist for School Dental Service, a Social Worker in the mental health field, and as a Health Promotion Officer.  Liz is passionate about affecting health outcomes through changing people’s environments.

Liz has completed a Diploma Applied Science (Dental Therapy); Graduate Diploma Health Promotion (Deakin); Bachelor Social Work (Monash); and Masters Public Health (Deakin). Liz’s main areas of responsibility are: Schools and Community Renewal. In 2009 the Health Promotion Team plan to work with a number of schools in the area. The aim is to initiate and support schools to adopt a broad view of health consistent with the Ottawa Charter for Health and to work towards addressing social and environmental issues within schools that affect health status of the parents, teachers and students. Community Renewal is part of A Fairer Victoria, the Victorian Government’s $1.6 billion plan to address disadvantage and create opportunity.  Liz will be working with the Community Renewal team at Maroondah Council and local residents to help them transform their community.