With so many careers in health care, sometimes it’s difficult to know what to specialise in. For Rachael Sinclair, a program officer at WorkSafe in Melbourne, a clinical role was always on the cards. So what happened to make Rachael switch her study to a major in health promotion?
As a graduate of Deakin’s Bachelor of Health Sciences, Rachael soon understood the potential and importance of prevention, while studying health promotion subjects. She realised that you can stop people from ever becoming unwell through enabling them to lead healthier lives. She wanted to be a part of that.
Rachael thinks that the essence of health promotion can be captured in a famous quote one of her first-year lecturers told her class: ‘you have to stop pulling people out of the river, and instead go upstream to find a way to stop them all from ever falling in’.
Find out about Rachael’s insights into what it’s like to promote health, and to change people’s lives for the better.