AMHF hosts Men's Health Chats for Men's Health Week 2025
The Australian Men’s Health Forum is reprising its popular lunchtime talks throughout Men’s Health Week in 2025.
AMHF, the peak body for men’s health in Australia, recently launched the menshealthweekevents.com website to showcase Men’s Health Week events, celebrations and activity across Australia from Monday 9 June to 15 June 2025.
The Men’s Health Week chats run from 9-13 June, during the week, from 1-2pm AEST each day. They are an invitation for people to chat about men’s health in their workplaces, communities and social groups and to sign up for a series of online lunchtime chats on the following topics:
- Prostate Cancer
- Stroke Awareness
- Men’s Health Facts
- Ask a pharmacist
- Helping Mates
These online talks are free to attend and held over Zoom. Why not get involved this Men's Health Week by signing up for one or more of our daily Men's Health chats?
Men’s Health Chat #1: Know your Prostate Cancer risk
Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/rSG6qD4ORceIqkRjVLaUcw
Topic: Prostate Cancer
Time: Monday 9 June, 1.00pm AEST - 2.00pm AEST
Presenter: Mark Jensen, Community Speaker and Manager of Life Force at PCFA (Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia).
How common is Prostate Cancer? What are the risks and symptoms? What are some of the myths about Prostate Cancer? And when should men get tested?
Mark Jensen will present some vital information that everyone needs to know about Prostate Cancer and be on hand to answer your questions. As a survivor of prostate cancer himself, and still navigating the disease, Mark believes greater awareness equals saving men’s lives.
Men’s Health Chat #2: What every man needs to know about Stroke
Topic: Stroke Awareness
Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/BQGDSpldRP6NYDY8dyWppg
Time: Tuesday 10 June, 1.00pm AEST - 2.00pm AEST
Presenter: Stew Greig, stroke survivor and StrokeSafe Speaker
In Australia, nearly 500 men a week have a stroke and 80% of these strokes are preventable.
Stew Greig is a StrokeSafe speaker for the Stroke Foundation, who shares his story to raise awareness about stroke and stroke prevention.
Stew will be telling us what a stroke is, how to recognise signs of stroke, what to do during a stroke emergency and how we can reduce our risk of having a stroke.
Men’s Health Chat #3: 10 things we all need to know about Men’s Health
Topic: Men’s Health Facts
Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/rXN76UN8QFSaNDQCNNAxHw
Time: Wednesday 11 June, 1.00pm AEST - 2.00pm AEST
Presenter: Glen Poole, CEO, Australian Men’s Health Forum
In this new talk from the Australian Men’s Health Forum (AMHF), released for Men’s Health Week 2025, we look at 10 facts we all need to know about Men’s Health.
This chat is presented by AMHF CEO Glen Poole, who believes in making the facts about Men’s Health simple and accessible to everyone.
This talk looks at men’s health in general, actions to improve our individual health and ways to support the men in our lives to stay healthy.
Men’s Health Chat #4: Man you can’t ask a Pharmacist that!
Topic: Ask a Pharmacist
Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/7cFMmc-lQh-JrhD5tGZOHg
Time: Thursday 12 June, 1.00pm AEST - 2.00pm AEST
Presenter: Brad Butt, Men’s Health Down Under
Most men don’t know that a pharmacist can help you with a lot of questions about their health.
To find out more about what we can (and can’t) ask a pharmacist, we’ve got Brad Butt from Men’s Health Down Under – a male-friendly pharmacy that specialises in helping men with a wide-range of health issues.
How do I get a men’s health check-up? Will weight-loss drugs work for me? Will prostate cancer surgery impact my sex life?
Find out the answers to some common Men’s Health questions and ask your own (anonymous) question if you want to.
Men’s Health Chat #5: How to help a mate who’s doing it tough
Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/K8LlffNBTj-BAGzoBt2n0g
Topic: Helping Mates
Time: Friday 13 June, 1.00pm AEST - 2.00pm AEST
Presenter: Jonathan Bedloe, Men’s Resources Tasmania
Do you want to know how to help a mate who's doing it tough? Would you like to have a helpful conversation with a mate who's struggling, but don't know where to start?
The How to Help a Mate Doing It Tough guide has been created with support from men's health workers with extensive knowledge and experience of having conversations with men.
This webinar provides an introduction into putting this simple approach into action with a man in your life who may be doing it tough.