Men’s Health Week for 2020 has passed and with it the overriding message that more conversations are needed between men and boys to encourage wellbeing.

The Men’s Health Connected online summit continued on Thursday with a lens on how rural and remote men are coping amidst an unprecedented and constant wave of challenges. Drought, flooding plains, bushfires and more recently coronavirus, many are at breaking point.

Why is it important to have policy, framework and strategy for male suicide? The question was put to four speakers on Day 3 of the Men’s Health Connected online summit by chair and mental health advocate, Pete Shmigel.

Rural Adversity Mental Health Program has launched a new website ‘You Got This Mate’ specifically designed to support blokes in regional and rural communities.

The UK Men’s Shed’s Association is keeping its members connected with a new weekly radio show called ‘Shed Happens’.

Movember has partnered with the youth mental health group Orygen to find out more about the experience of counsellors working with male clients.

A new at-home medical start-up for men is set to expand across the US after a $30 million boost in funding.

Wheat and sheep farmer John Harper has been helping blokes in country Australia since 2006. Setting up Mate Helping Mate was his way of addressing the feelings he personally experienced when he was bitten by the black dog in his 40s. We love the bush, he says, but sometimes the bush doesn’t love us back.

Adding to the growing list of quality and informative podcasts tailored to men, a new podcast mini-series for new dads has hit the airwaves, produced by Movember and the Diamantina Podcast Network.

The back drop of sport is once again being used to champion mental health awareness with at risk males - on a large scale.