{"id":5471,"date":"2025-10-23T10:44:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/?p=5471"},"modified":"2025-11-24T13:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:50:15","slug":"introducing-our-first-knowledge-exchange-resident-dasha-uy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/2025\/10\/23\/introducing-our-first-knowledge-exchange-resident-dasha-uy\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Our First Knowledge Exchange Resident: Dasha Uy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to introduce <strong>Dasha Uy<\/strong> as our inaugural <strong>Knowledge Exchange Resident<\/strong> at the Centre for Adolescent Health!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5472 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2025\/10\/Image-312x416.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2025\/10\/Image-312x416.jpg 312w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2025\/10\/Image-208x277.jpg 208w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2025\/10\/Image.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dasha joins us from the <strong>Philippines Department of Health<\/strong>, where she serves as a <strong>Senior Health Program Officer<\/strong> in the Health Promotion Bureau. She leads the development and scale-up of the <strong>Healthy Learning Institutions (HLI) program<\/strong>, which provides technical and financial support to approximately 1,500 last-mile elementary schools in geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas.<\/p>\n<p>Currently based in Australia, Dasha is completing a Master of Health Promotion at Deakin University as a <strong>DFAT Australia Awards Scholar<\/strong> \u2013 a prestigious program that supports emerging leaders from the Indo-Pacific to study, build networks, and contribute to development outcomes in their home countries.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next three months, Dasha will collaborate with our <strong>Healthy Learning System&#8217;s Team<\/strong> as part of the <strong>Knowledge Exchange Residency<\/strong>\u2014a program designed for researchers, educators, school-based practitioners, and policy professionals passionate about adolescent health and whole-school approaches. Residents co-create practical outputs such as blog posts, presentations, literature reviews, and policy documents, while contributing to global healthy schools&#8217; initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>During her residency, Dasha will focus on developing a <strong>framework to support a Community of Practice for educators in last-mile schools<\/strong>, aimed at strengthening the implementation and sustainability of the Healthy Learning Institutions Program.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re excited to learn from Dasha\u2019s insights and experiences, and to support her in this next phase of her professional journey.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome, Dasha!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>In<\/strong><strong>terested in becomin<\/strong><strong>g a Knowledge Exchange Resident in 2026?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Register your interest <a href=\"https:\/\/redcap.link\/EOIHPS\">here.<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to introduce Dasha Uy as our inaugural Knowledge Exchange Resident at the Centre for Adolescent Health!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6637,"featured_media":5472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5471"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5517,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions\/5517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}