Menzies HealthLAB ~ the innovative, interactive, educational mobile "pop up" laboratory that is tackling the issue of chronic disease

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100% of your donation goes directly to support HealthLAB to continue their innovative work in helping people to Own Their Health.

HealthLAB is an innovative, interactive, mobile laboratory that promotes healthy lifestyle behaviors through evidence-based education. Participants measure their own biomedical risk factors for chronic diseases and learn how to reduce their lifetime and inter-generational risk of disease. Based in Darwin, we run HealthLABs in schools across the Territory, and for community members in urban and remote centers.

Our aim is to empower individuals to make positive lifestyle choices for better health and wellbeing by increasing awareness and knowledge in the community about the consequences of today’s lifestyle choices on immediate and long-term personal health and the health of children yet to be born.

HealthLAB personalises health education by tailoring healthy lifestyle messages to an individual. By using measures like total body fat percentage, blood pressure, expired carbon monoxide from smoke exposure, and ultrasound viewings of the heart and kidneys, we hope to:

Empower people to change behaviours linked to smoking, alcohol, and the development of obesity and diabetes.
Involve Territory school students in active health promotion and education using the latest health research findings.
Encourage Territorians to own their health.

Engaging people to make lifestyle changes for better health is challenging. HealthLAB takes a unique approach. It gives health information a context – it’s personalised and it shows the science of how exactly lifestyle decisions such as diet and substance use impact the body, and therefore, why they matter.
– Associate Professor Heidi Smith-Vaughan

Since we started in 2014, 5000 Territorians have been through HealthLAB. Over three years we have made a difference. The team has seen students and adults from the Tiwi islands to Arnhem Land, and Darwin to Mataranka. HealthLAB is here to stay, and will become an integral part of health education across the Northern Territory.

How Will Your Donation Be Used?

We rely on the generous support of our donors, and 100% of each donation goes directly to taking HealthLAB to more people and places around the Territory.

Up to $5,000: HealthLABs at up to 3 Community events OR Support training of our student ambassadors
$5,000-$10,000: HealthLABs for 200-400 Darwin Community members.
$20,000: HealthLABS in 4 very remote Indigenous communities.
$35,000: A 12-month Indigenous traineeship with HealthLAB

Thank you for donating to Menzies HealthLAB.

Please note that 100% of your donation via this fundraising page goes directly to support HealthLAB to continue their innovative work in helping people to Own Their Health.

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$11,020

Target$25,000

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Menzies School of Health Research

Fundraising by

Vicki Kyritsis

+1 other team members

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09th March, 2017

Vicki Kyritsis

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