Events held 2001-2002

• Setting the agenda for health and medical research: priorities and accountability
• Importing tobacco control policies: can we learn from California?
• The HRT debate: how should the new evidence affect policy?
• Options for the future of the PBS
• General practice - corporate model or not?
• Benevolence, macroeconomics and health professional education: for profit or not?
• Australian directions in aged care: the generation of policies for generations of older people
• Universities and Mammon: An editor reflects
• The ethics of the cash register: academic integrity and commissioned research in health and medicine
• The public view of private health insurance
• How do decisions on the listing of pharmaceuticals influence health and health services in Australia?
• Where to from here? The need to construct a comprehensive national health policy
• What options do we have for organising, providing and funding better public dental care?
• Medical liability and evidence guidelines

3 December 2002

Presented by Professor David Burke, Director of Research & Development, College of Health Sciences, University of Sydney. A copy of Professor Burke’s presentation is available by clicking here.

Discussants:

• Professor Philip Barter, Director-designate, The Heart Research Institute, and the University of Sydney.
• Dr Don Grimes, Chair of the Boards of South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service and Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, and Chair of Aus Health International
• Professor Sally Redman, CEO, Institute for Health Research, and Deputy Chair, Research Committee, NHMRC. A copy of Professor Redman’s presentation is available by clicking here.

18 November 2002

Speakers:

• Dr Dileep Bal, Chief, Cancer Control Branch, California Dept of Health Services. A copy of Dr Bal’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• Dr Don Lyman, Chief, Division of Chronic Injury & Disease Control, California Dept of Health Services. A copy of Dr Lyman’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• Mr Bill Bellew, Director, Health Promotion Unit, NSW Health.
• Professor John Dwyer AO, Clinical Dean, Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW.
• Dr Elizabeth Harris, Director, Centre for Health Equity Training Research & Evaluation, UNSW. A copy of Dr Harris’s presentation is available by clicking here.

19 August 2002

Speakers:

• Professor Bruce Armstrong, School of Public Health, University of Sydney. A copy of Professor Armstrong’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• Dr Sandra Cabot, Women's Health Advisory Service.
• Ms Sally Crossing, Breast Cancer Action Group, NSW.
• Professor Martin Tattersall, Australian Drug Evaluation Committee. A copy of Professor Tattersall’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• Dr Barry Wren, Australasian Menopause Society. A copy of Dr Wren’s presentation is available by clicking here.

27 June 2002

Presented by Professor Emeritus Lloyd Sansom, Chair, Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee. A copy of Professor Sansom’s presentation is available by clicking here.

4 April 2002

Speakers:

• Dr Edmund Bateman, Primary Health Care Ltd.
• Dr Barry Catchlove, Health Services Consulting.
• Dr Paul Fitzgerald, GP and Public Health Physician, Sydney.
• Dr Rod McMahon, GP, Dapto.
• Dr Arn Sprogis, Hunter Urban Division of General Practice.
• Dr Simon Willcock, Academic General Practice Unit, University of Sydney.

7 March 2002

Presented by Professor Stephen Leeder, University of Sydney. A copy of Professor Leeder’s presentation is available by clicking here.

Resource: Macroeconomics and Health: Investing in Health for Economic Development, Report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. Jeffrey D Sachs (Chair) WHO, Geneva 2001

10 December 2001

Speakers:

• Professor Hal Kendig, University of Sydney and Professor Stephen Duckett, La Trobe University
• Professor Stephen Duckett, Professor of Health Policy, Dean of the Faculty of Health, Sciences and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Health Developments) at La Trobe University.

Commentators:

• Mr Denys Correll, National Executive Director, Council on the Ageing
• Dr Diane Gibson, Head, Aged Care Unit, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
• Mr Greg Mundy, Chief Executive Officer, Aged and Community Services Australia

Presentation: A copy of Professors Kendig and Duckett’s presentation is available by clicking here.

Publication: A copy of the report is available by clicking here.

November 2001

Presented by Dr Richard Smith, Editor, The British Medical Journal. A copy of Dr Smith’s presentation is available by clicking here.

23 August 2001

Presented by Professor Simon Chapman, Professor of Public Health in the University of Sydney

Discussants:

• Professor Bruce Armstrong, Director, Cancer Research and Registers Division, NSW Cancer Council
• Ms Louise Sylvan, Chief Executive, Australian Consumers’ Association
• Professor John Shine, Executive Director, Garvan Institute of Medical Research

20 June 2001

Presented by Associate Professor Jane Hall, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (June 2001).

Commentators:

• Ms Elizabeth Furler, Chief Executive Officer, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
• Mr Ray Moynihan, Medical Reporter, The Australian Financial Review
• Ms Stacy Carter and Professor Simon Chapman, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Sydney

Publication: A copy of the report is available by clicking here.

2 May 2001

Presented by The Hon Peter Baume AO, Australian National University

Commentators:

• Professor David Henry, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Head, School of Population Health Sciences, The University of Newcastle
• Associate Professor Andrea Mant, Area Adviser, Quality Use of Medicines, South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service
• Dr Michael Tatchell, Director, Health Economics Division, The Pharmacy Guild of Australia

Publication: A copy of the report is available by clicking here.

21 March 2001

Speakers:

• Dr Milton Lewis, University of Sydney
• Professor Stephen Leeder, University of Sydney

Commentators:

• Professor Jonathan Lomas, Executive Director, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
• The Hon Neal Blewett, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney
• Professor John McCallum, Dean, Faculty of Social and Health Sciences, University of Western Sydney.

Publication: A copy of the report is available by clicking here.

21 March 2001

Presented by Professor A John Spencer, Adelaide University.

Commentators:

• Dr Robert Butler, Executive Director, Australian Dental Association
• Professor Keith Lester, Dean, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Sydney
• Professor Clive Wright, Director, Health Promotion and Research, Dental Health Services, Victoria

Publication: A copy of the report is available by clicking here.

22 February 2001

Presented by Justice Margaret Beazley, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of New South Wales