The It Depends Podcast with Matt Healey
Jun 26, 2026 · 51 min · 11 segments
In this episode, Matt speaks with Tanya Rong — Chair of the Latrobe Health Assembly, Australia's first community-led health assembly, set up in the wake of the…
Tanya RongGuest
Matt HealeyHost
This episode, we are moving our attention eastwards to the eastern part of Victoria, out to Gippsland.
But what I will say is that she is a nurse, she's a PhD candidate, public health specialist, and she is extremely passionate about community wellbeing, a strong advocate for community voice, especially in the Latrobe Valley.
A key part of her work includes her role heading up the Latrobe Health Assembly, and she's got a lot to share around her experiences with place-based approaches and also to share some of her insights from her PhD work which relates to place-based practice, place-based approaches.
make sure you are following the podcast to keep up to date on all the latest episodes there's now 22 different episodes we're heading towards our one year anniversary so i'm just really thrilled that people are continuing to listen in and hopefully learn a few new things along the way as well so without further ado let's hear from tanya Hi Tanya, thanks for joining me on the It Depends podcast.
Today we're going to talk about something that I think you're particularly passionate about and something that I'm very interested in and I know a lot of our listeners are as well.
Place-based approaches, very complex, lots tangled up in what it is to be place-based and what a place-based approach even is.
But we'll start with something a bit simpler for the benefit of those listening who maybe aren't familiar with you and your work.
Can you provide a bit of your background and how did you end up here chatting with me?
This episode, we are moving our attention eastwards to the eastern part of Victoria, out to Gippsland.
But what I will say is that she is a nurse, she's a PhD candidate, public health specialist, and she is extremely passionate about community wellbeing, a strong advocate for community voice, especially in the Latrobe Valley.
A key part of her work includes her role heading up the Latrobe Health Assembly, and she's got a lot to share around her experiences with place-based approaches and also to share some of her insights from her PhD work which relates to place-based practice, place-based approaches.
make sure you are following the podcast to keep up to date on all the latest episodes there's now 22 different episodes we're heading towards our one year anniversary so i'm just really thrilled that people are continuing to listen in and hopefully learn a few new things along the way as well so without further ado let's hear from tanya Hi Tanya, thanks for joining me on the It Depends podcast.
Today we're going to talk about something that I think you're particularly passionate about and something that I'm very interested in and I know a lot of our listeners are as well.
Place-based approaches, very complex, lots tangled up in what it is to be place-based and what a place-based approach even is.
But we'll start with something a bit simpler for the benefit of those listening who maybe aren't familiar with you and your work.
Can you provide a bit of your background and how did you end up here chatting with me?
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