Events held 1999-2000
- Inequalities of health
- The future of Medicare
- Policy implications of new modes of consumer access to health information
- The implications of the NSW Health Council report
- Safety and quality in healthcare
- Politics and policies in implementing effective health care
- Being effective: introducing a comprehensive formalisation of common-sense
- A population health perspective on evidence-based decision-making
- Information economics and evidence-based medicine
2 November 2000
Presented by Sir Donald Acheson, Chairman, International Centre for Health and Safety, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College, London
Discussants:
- Associate Professor Jane Hall, Director, Centre for Health Economics Research
- Professor John McCallum, Dean, College of Health
- Professor Miles Little, Emeritus Professor, Centre for Values Ethics and Law in Medicine
3 August 2000
Presented by Professor John Deeble, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University
22 June 2000
Presented by Dr Andrew Wilson, Managing Director, High Performance Healthcare
23 March 2000
Presented by Mr Michael Reid, Director-General, NSW Health Department
Discussants:
- Ms Betty Johnson
- Dr Gavin Frost, Chief Medical Officer, Medical Benefits Fund of Australia
- Dr Patrick Bolton, Director, Canterbury Division of General Practice
- Dr Peter Sainsbury, Director, Division of Population Health
9 February 2000
Presented by Professor Bruce Barraclough, President, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Discussants:
- Ms Merrilyn Walton
- Professor Bruce Armstrong, Director, Cancer Control Information Centre, New South Wales Cancer Council
- Dr Ross Wilson, Chairman, NSW Ministerial Committee on Quality in Healthcare
10 November 1999
Presentation by Dr Andrew Wilson, Chief Health Officer of NSW and Deputy Director-General for Public Health in the NSW Health Department
Presented by Dr Warren Kinston, Principal, The SIGMA (Systematizing Imagination to Support Goals Management and Action) Centre, London, UK
11 August 1999
Presented by Professor Stephen Birch, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Commentators:
- Professor Bettina Cass
- Professor David Henderson-Smart
- Dr Andrew Wilson
1 July 1999
Presented by Professor Enrico Coiera, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales