The Rotary Club of Melbourne has long held a special focus on community health and supporting ageing. We identify issues in the community where we can can make a contribution and improve people's lives. Our members include specialists and experts in the health field, helping to identify, implement and manage live-changing projects.
The 2025-26 Sir John Reid Community Service Award recipient, Fartun Farah, recently updated Rotary Melbourne on an important program funded by the award. On behalf of the East African Women’s Foundation, Fartun writes, “We sincerely thank Rotary Melbourne members for your ongoing support and partnership. Your contribution plays a vital role in enabling us to deliver impactful programs and create safer, stronger and more connected communities.”
The Australian Rotary Health February 26 Newsletter is available by clicking on Read More below and features articles on upcoming events and feature articles.
Several members of Rotary Melbourne attended the Bionics Insitute Preview Event on research into Women’s health — focused on treating perimenopausal brain fog, endometriosis and chronic pain.
Prof Chris McDevitt's presentation is a must see because Sepsis is one of the leading causes of death worldwide.
MC for the day was Past President Bob Glindeman
Reflection was delivered by Past President Robert Fisher.
Rotary Melbourne is excited to announce our new partnership with Run The Tan, reinforcing our commitment to mental health advocacy. This iconic event is more than just a race - it’s a movement dedicated to raising awareness and funding vital mental health initiatives. We’re calling on our Rotary Melbourne community to get involved! Whether you’re running, walking, or volunteering as a marshall or at our Rotary Melbourne Marquee, every step you take helps break the stigma around mental health.
Rotary Melbourne has a long history of supporting Australian Rotary Health, one of the largest independent funders of mental health research within Australia. ARH also assists a broad range of general health areas, provides scholarships for rural medical and nursing students, as well as Indigenous health students.
Rotary Melbourne has provided support to PALZ (Professionals with Alzheimer’s), a support organisation for those diagnosed with early stage dementia. It was established to ensure those from high operating work environments, can meet and interact within a socially and intellectually stimulating environment.
Our annual AFL Footy Tipping competition raises funds for our Health & Ageing projects.
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Rotary Melbourne in partnership with the Rotary Clubs of Albert Park, Docklands and Brighton North developed a product called “Footy Nuts” - a 30 gram pack of dry roasted Australian almonds - introduced to indigenous children in an effort to move their diet away from snack foods with low nutritional value.
Led by the Rotary Club of Melbourne, the EndTrachoma by 2020 project unites Rotary clubs across Australia, to work towards eliminating trachoma by preventing the spread of infection that causes this avoidable blindness.
Our interactive water trailer of the Rotary Club of Melbourne as part of Rotary’s EndTrachoma by 2020 project. We partnered with Monash University, GHD and Telstra to deliver this Rotary Melbourne Centenary project, one of many different ways Clubs are working together to solve the problem of trachoma in indigenous Australia.
The End Hepatitis Now project was launched in late 2019. A Rotary Melbourne partnership has been formed with Hepatitis Victoria.
