Events held 2003-2004

• Narrowing the inequality gap in oral health and dental care in Australia
• Transforming care through better assessment
• A Race Against Time: the Challenge of Cardiovascular Disease in Developing Economies
• Health Inequalities in NSW: From Description to Action
• The role of unsterile injection and transfusion in the emergence of the AIDS epidemic in Africa
• A plague of prisons: drugs, crime and the epidemiology of mass incarceration in the US
• Boutique Health? Gender and Health Policy
• Evidence, inequality and public health policy - can Australia learn from the NHS experience?
• Avian influenza - is they sky really falling?
• The Politics of Change: health systems, partnerships and reforms in cancer services
• AIDS in Australia - the primitive years: reflections on Australia's policy response to the AIDS epidemic
• The Dubbo study of the health of the elderly 1988-2002: an epidemiological study of hospital and residential care
• Indigenous health: moving from rhetoric to reality
• Medicare: challenges and options for the future
• The health policy implications of global warming
• Industry sponsored research: the good, the bad and the biased
• The most important challenges in Australian health policy in 2003

11 November 2004

Presented by Professor John Spencer, Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, University of Adelaide. A copy of Professor Spencer’s presentation is available by clicking here. (embed spencer111104.pdf)

Commentators:

• Professor Michael Morgan, School of Dental Science, University of Melbourne. A copy of Professor Morgan’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• Professor Eli Schwarz, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Sydney. A copy of Professor Schwarz’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• Dr John Matthews, Australian Dental Association. A copy of Dr Matthews’ presentation is available by clicking here.

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

5 August 2004

Presented by Professor Ian Philp, National Director for Older People’s Services, Health Department, UK. Co-hosted by the School of Public Health, The University of Sydney.

5 August 2004

Presented by Professor Stephen Leeder AO, Director, Australian Health Policy Institute. A copy of Professor Leeder’s presentation is available by clicking here.

Commentators:

• Dr Paul Magnus, Medical Adviser, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. A copy of Dr Magnus’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• Dr Alan Cass, Director of Policy and Practice Division, The George Institute for International Health. A copy of Dr Cass’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• Professor Stephen MacMahon, Principal Director, The George Institute for International Health. A copy of Professor MacMahon’s presentation is available by clicking here.

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

12 May 2004

The Australian Health Policy Institute co-sponsored a one day forum on health inequalities.

Professor Margaret Whitehead School of Public Health, University of Liverpool, UK was a guest speaker and the NSW Health Department launched their equity policy, NSW Health and Equity Statement: In All Fairness.

6 May 2004

Speakers:

• Professor Ernie Drucker, Visiting Research Fellow, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York. A copy of Professor Drucker’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• Professor John Kaldor, Deputy Director, National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, UNSW.
• Dr Michael Walsh, Leader of the Edmund Rice Business Ethics Initiative.
• Associate Professor Lisa Maher, National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, UNSW.

5 May 2004

Presented by Professor Ernie Drucker, Research Fellow (Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York). A copy of Professor Drucker’s presentation is available by clicking here.

1 April 2004

Presented by Dr Toni Schofield, School of Behavioural and Community Health Sciences, The University of Sydney. A copy of Dr Schofield’s presentation is available by clicking here.

Commentators:

• Professor Vivian Lin, School of Public Health, La Trobe University.
• Professor Bob Connell, School of Policy and Practice, The University of Sydney.
• Ms Helen L'Orange, Consultant Women's Health Program, World Health Organisation. A copy of Ms L'Orange’s presentation is available by clicking here.

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

15 March 2004

Presented by Professor Don Nutbeam, Pro Vice Chancellor, College of Health Sciences, University of Sydney. A copy of Professor Nutbeam’s presentation is available by clicking here.

Discussants:

• Dr Greg Stewart, Deputy Director General and Chief Health Officer, NSW Health.
• Professor Sally Redman, CEO, Institute for Health Research. A copy of Professor Redman’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• Professor Robyn Norton, Director, The George Institute for International Health. A copy of Professor Norton’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• Professor David Celermajer, Chairman, Research Executive Committee, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

2 March 2004

Presented by Mr Alan Hampson, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza. A copy of Mr Hampson’s presentation is available by clicking here.

Discussants:

• Professor David Isaacs, Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Westmead Children's Hospital.
• Dr Jeremy McAnulty, Communicable Diseases Branch, NSW Health. A copy of Dr McAnulty’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• Dr Dominic Dwyer, Virologist, ICPMR, Westmead Hospital.

24 November 2003

Speakers:

• Professor Mike Richards, National Cancer Director, NHS. A copy of Professor Richards’ presentation is available by clicking here.
• Professor Sally Redman, Director, Institute for Health Research.
• Mr Norman Thompson, Consumer Representative.
• Professor Jim Bishop, Chief Cancer Officer, Cancer Institute NSW.

16 October 2003

Presented by Professor Neal Blewett AC, former Minister for Health and High Commissioner to London.

Commentators:

• Professor Ron Penny, AO, Senior Clinical Adviser, NSW Health.
• Mr Lou McCallum, Consumer Advocate.
• Dr John Ballard, Visiting Fellow in the Graduate School ANU.

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

11 September 2003

Speakers:

• Professor John McCallum, Dean, College of Social and Health Sciences, University of Western Sydney.
• Associate Professor Leon Simons, University of New South Wales.
• Ms Judith Simons, University of New South Wales.

Commentators:

• Professor David Le Couteur, Centre for Education and Research on Ageing, Concord Hospital.
• Ms Betty Johnson, AO, Consumer activist.
• Professor Warren Hogan, School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology, Sydney.

Publication: A copy of the report is available by clicking here. Professor Hogan’s commentary is available by clicking here.

2 July 2003

Speakers:

• Dr Ian Ring, Adjunct Professor and Foundation Director, Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute, Australian National University.
• Dr Ngiare Brown, Executive Officer, Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association. A copy of Dr Brown’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• Professor Wendy Hoy, Centre for Chronic Disease, University of Queensland. A copy of Professor Hoy’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• Ms Dea Delaney Thiele, Chief Executive Officer, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation. A copy of Ms Thiele’s presentation is available by clicking her.

22 May 2003

Presented by Professor Neal Blewett AC, former Minister for Health and High Commissioner to London

Discussants:

• Professor John Deeble AO, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University.
• Mr Gordon Gregory, Executive Director, National Rural Health Alliance and Deputy President, Australian Council of Social Service.
• Professor Jeffery Richardson, Director, Health Economics Unit, Monash University. A copy of Professor Richardson’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• Mr Paul Gross, Institute of Health Economics and Technology Assessment.

8 May 2003

Speakers:

• Professor Tony McMichael, Director, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra.
• Dr Paul Beggs, Department of Physical Geography, Macquarie University.

26 March 2003

Speakers:

• Professor Lisa Bero, Professor Clinical Pharmacy and Health Policy, University of California, San Francisco. A copy of Professor Bero’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• Professor David Henry, School of Medical Practice and Population Health, University of Newcastle.
• Ms Deborah Monk, Director Scientific and Technical Affairs, Medicines Australia.
• Professor Martin Stockler, Co-director Cancer Trials, NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre.

12 March 2003

Speakers:

• Professor Bruce Barraclough, Chair, Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care. A copy of Professor Barraclough’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• Professor John Chalmers AC FAA, Institute for International Health, University of Sydney. A copy of Professor Chalmers’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• Ms Mary Foley, CEO, St Vincent's and Mater Health. A copy of Ms Foley’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• Dr Diana Horvath AO, CEO, CSAHS.
• Ms Betty Johnson AO, Older Women's Network, Australia.
• Professor Michael Reid, Institute for International Health
• Dr Martin van der Weyden, Editor, Medical Journal of Australia. A copy of Dr van der Weyden’s presentation is available by clicking here.