• 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

Narrowing the inequality gap in oral health and dental care in Australia

11 November 2004

Presented by Professor John Spencer, Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, University of Adelaide. 

Commentators:

• Professor Michael Morgan, School of Dental Science, University of Melbourne.
• Professor Eli Schwarz, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Sydney.
• Dr John Matthews, Australian Dental Association.

Presentations:

• A copy of Professor Spencer’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• A copy of Professor Morgan’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• A copy of Professor Schwarz’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• A copy of Dr Matthews’ presentation is available by clicking here.

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

Transforming care through better assessment

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.

A Race Against Time: the Challenge of Cardiovascular Disease in Developing Economies

5 August 2004

Presented by Professor Stephen Leeder AO, Director, Australian Health Policy Institute. 

Commentators:

• Dr Paul Magnus, Medical Adviser, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
• Dr Alan Cass, Director of Policy and Practice Division, The George Institute for International Health.
• Professor Stephen MacMahon, Principal Director, The George Institute for International Health.

Presentations:

• A copy of Professor Leeder’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• A copy of Dr Magnus’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• A copy of Dr Cass’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• A copy of Professor MacMahon’s presentation is available by clicking here.

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

Health Inequalities in NSW: From Description to Action

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.

The role of unsterile injection and transfusion in the emergence of the AIDS epidemic in Africa

6 May 2004

Speakers:

• Professor Ernie Drucker, Visiting Research Fellow, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York. 
• 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.

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

A plague of prisons: drugs, crime and the epidemiology of mass incarceration in the US

5 May 2004

Presented by Professor Ernie Drucker, Research Fellow (Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York).  

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

Boutique Health? Gender and Health Policy

1 April 2004

Presented by Dr Toni Schofield, School of Behavioural and Community Health Sciences, The University of Sydney. 

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. 

Presentations:

• A copy of Dr Schofield’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• A copy of Ms L'Orange’s presentation is available by clicking here.

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

Evidence, inequality and public health policy - can Australia learn from the NHS experience?

15 March 2004

Presented by Professor Don Nutbeam, Pro Vice Chancellor, College of Health Sciences, University of Sydney. 

Discussants:

• Dr Greg Stewart, Deputy Director General and Chief Health Officer, NSW Health.
• Professor Sally Redman, CEO, Institute for Health Research. 
• Professor Robyn Norton, Director, The George Institute for International Health.
• Professor David Celermajer, Chairman, Research Executive Committee, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

Presentations:

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

Avian influenza - is they sky really falling?

2 March 2004

Presented by Mr Alan Hampson, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza. 

Discussants:

• Professor David Isaacs, Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Westmead Children's Hospital.
• Dr Jeremy McAnulty, Communicable Diseases Branch, NSW Health. 
• Dr Dominic Dwyer, Virologist, ICPMR, Westmead Hospital.

Presentations:

• A copy of Mr Hampson’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• A copy of Dr McAnulty’s presentation is available by clicking here.

The Politics of Change: health systems, partnerships and reforms in cancer services

24 November 2003

Speakers:

• Professor Mike Richards, National Cancer Director, NHS.
• Professor Sally Redman, Director, Institute for Health Research.
• Mr Norman Thompson, Consumer Representative.
• Professor Jim Bishop, Chief Cancer Officer, Cancer Institute NSW.

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

AIDS in Australia - the primitive years: reflections on Australia's policy response to the AIDS epidemic

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.

The Dubbo study of the health of the elderly 1988-2002: an epidemiological study of hospital and residential care

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.

Indigenous health: moving from rhetoric to reality

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.
• Professor Wendy Hoy, Centre for Chronic Disease, University of Queensland.
• Ms Dea Delaney Thiele, Chief Executive Officer, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation. 

Presentations:

• A copy of Dr Brown’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• A copy of Professor Hoy’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• A copy of Ms Thiele’s presentation is available by clicking here.

Medicare: challenges and options for the future

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.  * Mr Paul Gross, Institute of Health Economics and Technology Assessment.

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

The health policy implications of global warming

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.

Industry sponsored research: the good, the bad and the biased

26 March 2003

Speakers:

• Professor Lisa Bero, Professor Clinical Pharmacy and Health Policy, University of California, San Francisco.
• 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.

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

The most important challenges in Australian health policy in 2003

12 March 2003

Speakers:

• Professor Bruce Barraclough, Chair, Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care. 
• Professor John Chalmers AC FAA, Institute for International Health, University of Sydney.
• Ms Mary Foley, CEO, St Vincent's and Mater Health.
• 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. 

Presentations:

• A copy of Professor Barraclough’s presentation is available by clicking here.
• A copy of Professor Chalmers’ presentation is available by clicking here.
• A copy of Ms Foley’s presentation is available by clicking here. )
• A copy of Dr van der Weyden’s presentation is available by clicking here.