• 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 guideline

Setting the agenda for health and medical research: priorities and accountability

3 December 2002

Presented by Professor David Burke, Director of Research & Development, College of Health Sciences, University of Sydney. 

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.  

Presentations:

• A copy of Professor Burke’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• A copy of Professor Redman’s presentation is available by clicking here.

Importing tobacco control policies: can we learn from California?

18 November 2002

Speakers:

• Dr Dileep Bal, Chief, Cancer Control Branch, California Dept of Health Services.  
• Dr Don Lyman, Chief, Division of Chronic Injury & Disease Control, California Dept of Health Services.  
• 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. 

Presentations:

• A copy of Dr Bal’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• A copy of Dr Lyman’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• A copy of Dr Harris’s presentation is available by clicking here.

The HRT debate: how should the new evidence affect policy?

19 August 2002

Speakers:

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

Presentations:

• A copy of Professor Armstrong’s presentation is available by clicking here. 
• A copy of Professor Tattersall’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• A copy of Dr Wren’s presentation is available by clicking here.

Options for the future of the PBS

27 June 2002

Presented by Professor Emeritus Lloyd Sansom, Chair, Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee.

Presentation: A copy of Professor Sansom’s presentation is available by clicking here.

General practice - corporate model or not?

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.

Benevolence, macroeconomics and health professional education: for profit or not?

7 March 2002

Presented by Professor Stephen Leeder, University of Sydney. 

Presentation: 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

Australian directions in aged care: the generation of policies for generations of older people

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.

Universities and Mammon: An editor reflects

November 2001

Presented by Dr Richard Smith, Editor, The British Medical Journal. 

Presentation: A copy of Dr Smith’s presentation is available by clicking here.

The ethics of the cash register: academic integrity and commissioned research in health and medicine

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

The public view of private health insurance

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.

How do decisions on the listing of pharmaceuticals influence health and health services in Australia?

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.

Where to from here? The need to construct a comprehensive national health policy.

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.

What options do we have for organising, providing and funding better public dental care?

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.

Medical liability and evidence guidelines

22 February 2001

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