Events Held in 2009
- Policy for enhanced prevention in US and Australia: how much bang for the buck?, 7 October 2009
- Emerging Health Policy Research Conference, 19 August 2009
- Michael Ward Symposium on “Resilience and Health”, 12 August 2009
- Global Health Governance - A Search for Meaning, 16 July 2009
- Investing in health care reform: what the budget says about the government's health care priorities, 17 June 2009
- We have the maps but can we follow the tracks? Our journey to being the healthiest country by 2020, 28 April 2009
- International collaborative health research: making partnerships a reality, 24 March 2009
- Health Literacy: Just what the doctor ordered?, 17 February 2009
7 October 2009
Speakers:
- Dr Lesley Russell, Menzies Foundation Fellow and Research Associate, United States Studies Centre, lead the discussion with an account of where prevention sits in the US proposals for reform, especially the three House Committee proposals. How does it compare with the commitment in Australia?
- Dr Garry Egger, Director, Centre for Health Promotion and Research, then looked at health reform in Australia. Do the various reform platforms hit the mark or are they just fiddling around the edges? Is there a link between obesity, climate change and economic growth?
- Professor Glenn Salkeld, Head of the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney then discussed whether prevention is a good investment, and if so, how it should be evaluated.
Professor Stephen Leeder, Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, moderated the discussion.
Presentations:
Click below to view:
- Professor Leeder's introductory slide offering 3 definitions for prevention.
- Dr Lesley Russell's presentation slides and notes.
- Dr Garry Egger's presentation slides.
- Professor Glenn Salkeld's presentation slides.
Recording:
Click here to listen to a sound recording of the seminar.
19 August 2009
The Menzies Centre for Health Policy held its 4th annual Emerging Health Policy Research Conference.
The conference showcased the work in progress of current doctoral and early career research workers.
Keynote Speakers:
- John Wyn Owen, Chair, Board of Governors, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff; former Secretary of the Nuffield Trust; and former Director-General of NSW Health
- Dr Christine Bennett, National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission
- Ms Mary Ann O’Loughlin, Executive Councillor and Head of the Secretariat of the COAG Reform Council, and member of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission
Click here for a copy of the conference program.
Submitted abstracts are available by clicking here.
Presentations:
Keynotes
- Professor John Wyn Owen: Global health security at a time of economic vulnerabilities: issues for nation states and health policy
- Ms Mary Ann O’Loughlin: Monitoring governments’ performance in national health reform: what good can come of it?
Session 1: Chronic Disease Policy
- Bamini Gopinath: Dual sensory impairment: a practice and policy challenge for aged care
- Mandy Nielsen: Developing social policy and practice responses to chronic pain
- Beverley Essue: Informal care and the self- management partnership: implications for Australian health policy and practice
- Renee Slade: A policy needle in the chronic disease haystack: Pacific Islands
- Tanisha Jowsey: Health system management of chronic disease – making sense of suggestions for improvement
Session 2: Participatory Health Policy Development
- Elizabeth Dunford: Progress with reducing salt in the Australian food supply
- Fiona Robards and Samir Kinger: NSW Youth Health Policy: a remix by young people
- Jo Fairbairn: The National Men’s Health Ambassador Speaker Program (NMHASP) 2009 - 2010 (Abstract only)
- Joan van Rotterdam: Bringing Chiropractic to Durri
Session 3: Social Policy and Health
- David Heckendorf: Understanding respect and dignity for people with disability in healthcare
- Remo Ostini: Advancing Health Literacy through Evidence-based Primary Health Care Policy
- Emily J Callander: What about health? What income measures of poverty do not reveal
- Gemma Carey: The social determinants of health and welfare-state restructuring: a broader understanding of the politics of health
- Juanita Sherwood: It’s just good manners (Abstract only)
Session 4: Health Services Policy
- Clinical A/Professor Kate Curtis: The cost of major trauma in NSW
- Marlene Eggert: Rewarding nursing-care quality through funding incentives
- Colman Taylor: Research in progress – The cost and benefit of helicopter emergency medical services in NSW
- Dr Simon Crouch: GP education materials and their impact on chlamydia testing
- Maree Bernoth: Bodies in focus – the implications for policy in aged care
Session 5: Processes in Health Policy Making
- Thea Gumbert: Actuarial risk assessment for recidivism in intra-familial sex offenders: predictive validity of the Static-99 and SONAR
- Carol Holden: National Men’s Health Policy: Stakeholder Interests And Policy Influences
- Dr Lynette Lee: Health services for adults with Intellectual Disability - a system dynamics approach
- Mat Walton: Using complexity theory to develop health policy: a proposed method
- Ruth Townsend: Moral imperative or economic necessity – politics, philosophy and public health law (Abstract only)
Session 6: Evaluation of Health Policy Outcomes
- Maggie Haertsch: A method of retrospective assessment of the organisational structures and activities of clinical networks
- Natalie Plant: Development of a randomised, controlled trial for a non-treatment intervention – the Care Navigation Trial
- Michelle Blanchard: Understanding the policy implications of using information communication technology to improve youth mental health
- Emma Webster: The Baby Bonus- unintended health consequences of policy
- Su-yin Hor: Incident reporting: a journey from principles to policy and practice
Session 7: Analysing Health Policy Processes and Context
- Andrey Zheluk: Is there a place for history in public health policy analysis? (Abstract only)
- Monica Campo: Delivering Obstetric Hegemony: An Analysis of the Maternity Service Review
- Noeline Monaghan: The Impact of Legislation on Health Services in Australia
- Denise Fry: Still behaviourist after all these years – health promotion words and deeds
Session 8: Health Policy in Global Settings
- Anne Marie Thow: Soft drink taxes in the Pacific: Lessons on implementation
- Hasan Bin Hamza: Heath system professionals’ perspectives on breast cancer prevention and management in Pakistan
- Lin Yuan: Equity for the Elderly: China’s New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme
- Sumant Badami: The Devil and the DMHP: A critical analysis of the District Mental Health Project in Wayanad, southern India
Session 9: Evidence Informed Health Policy Development
- Kathy Flitcroft: A test case of theories of the policy process: what role does evidence play?
- Reece Hinchcliff: Research utilisation in novice driver policy
- Tari Turner: Evidence-based practice in hospitals in Australia and South East Asia
- Nicolas Rasmussen: Trial Registration and Bias in the RCT Literature: Discouraging Evidence from Trials of new Oncology Drugs (Abstract only).
- Gabriel Moore: Translating research into policy - considerations for designing effective interventions
12 August 2009
The Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Australia 21 held a symposium to honour Michael Ward, a Founding Director of Australia 21 and a Board Member and Associate of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy. Michael’s personal resilience in the face of enormous health adversity has been an inspiration to his many friends and colleagues.
Speakers:
- Dr Brian Walker, Chair of the (International) Resilience Alliance, and Director, Australia 21
- Teresa Burgess, Manager, Australia 21 Project on Resilience in Early Childcare Systems
- Emeritus Professor Bob Douglas AO, Board Chair, Australia 21 and Leader of A21 Project on Resilience of Health and Education Systems
- Professor Stephen Leeder AO, Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy
- Michael Ward
Presentations and Notes:
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- Dr Walker's presentation
- Teresa Burgess's speaking notes
- Professor Douglas's presentation
- Professor Douglas's speaking notes
- Professor Leeder's presentation
Recordings:
Click on the links below to listen to:
- Dr Walker's presentation
- Teresa Burgess's presentation
- Professor Douglas's presentation
- Professor Leeder's presentation
- Michael Ward's response
- Panel discussion
16 July 2009
The Menzies Centre for Health Policy held the inaugural S.T. Lee Lecture on Thursday, 16 July 2009.
The University of Sydney, by way of a gift, established the S.T. Lee Lecture Fund in 2008 to invite a distinguished scholar and/or practitioner on the subject of contemporary health policy to deliver an annual lecture. The S.T. Lee Lecture is named for Seng Tee Lee, a business executive and noted philanthropist. Dr Lee is director of the Lee group of companies in Singapore and of the Lee Foundation.
The inaugural S. T. Lee Lecture was delivered by:
Dr. Tikki Pang, Director, Research Policy & Cooperation (RPC/IER), World Health Organization. Dr Pang's topic was Global Health Governance - A Search for Meaning.
Roger Magnusson, Professor of Health, Law and Governance, Sydney Law School, responded to Dr Pang's presentation.
Robert Cumming, Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, chaired the discussion.
Presentations and Notes:
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Recording: Click here to listen to a sound recording of the seminar
17 June 2009
Speakers:
- Dr Lesley Russell, Menzies Foundation Fellow, Menzies Centre for Health Policy
- Kees van Gool, Senior Research Officer (Health Economist), Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology, Sydney
- Ian Olver, Clinical Professor, CEO, Cancer Council Australia
- Greg Sam, Managing Director, Parker & Partners, Health Policy and Government Relations
Professor Stephen Leeder, Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, Chaired the discussion.
Presentations:
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Recording: Click here to listen to a sound recording of the seminar.
28 April 2009
Speakers:
- Mike Daube, Professor of Health Policy and Director, Public Health Advocacy Institute of WA at Curtin University of Technology; Deputy Chair of the Preventative Health Taskforce, and President of the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA)
- Fran Baum, Professor of Public Health and Director, Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity & South Australian Community Health Research Unit at Flinders University; commissioner on the WHO’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health
- John Catford, Dean of the Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences, and Professor of Health Development at Deakin University
- Dr Tony Hobbs, Chair, National Primary Health Care Strategy External Reference Group
- Honourable Dr Geoff Gallop, Commissioner, National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission
Associate Professor Ruth Colagiuri, Director, Diabetes Unit at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, opened the seminar and introduced The Sydney Resolution - a call to urgent international action at all levels of society to halt the devastating global impact of chronic disease, and promote economic and environmental sustainability. The five points of the Resolution’s framework focus on achieving healthy people in healthy places on a healthy planet.
Professor Stephen Leeder, Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, chaired the audience discussion.
This seminar was hosted by the Oxford Health Alliance Asia-Pacific Centre and the Menzies Centre for Health Policy.
Presentations:
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- A/Professor Colagiuri's slides
- Professor Daube's slides
- Professor Baum's slides
- Professor Catford's slides
Recordings:
Click on the below links to listen to:
- Introduction given by A/Professor Ruth Colagiuri
- Professor Daube's presentation
- Professor Baum's presentation
- Professor Catford's presentation and response
- Dr Hobbs' response
- The Honourable Dr Geoff Gallop's response
- Panel Discussion chaired by Professor Stephen Leeder
24 March 2009
Panel Members:
- Professor Gur Ofer, Harvey M. and Lyn P. Meyerhoff Professor of Soviet Economics, Departments of Economics and of Russian Studies, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- Michael Dibley, Associate Professor in International Public Health, School of Public Health/The George Institute for International Health, University of Sydney
- A/Professor Ruth Colagiuri, Director, Diabetes Unit, Menzies Centre for Health Policy
- Dr Clive Aspin, Chief Investigator, Mauri Tu Mauri Ora, International Collaborative Indigenous Health Research Partnership, and Research Director, SCIPPS, Menzies Centre for Health Policy
The seminar was Chaired by Professor Stephen MacMahon, Principal Director, The George Institute for International Health.
17 February 2009
Speakers:
- Dr Jim Gillespie, Deputy Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy
- Dr Clive Aspin, Research Director, Serious and Continuing Illness Policy and Practice Study (SCIPPS), Menzies Centre for Health Policy
- Professor Don Nutbeam, Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Sydney
Presentation: Click here to view Dr Gillespie's slides.
Recording: Click here to listen to an audio recording of the seminar.