• International Developments in Health Systems: Addressing real issues or responding to fads and special interests
• Menzies Centre Oration: Value for Money in Health Care: Why It’s Hard to Achieve and What We Might Do About It
• The Case Against Health Insurance
• Large System Transformation: What is it and can it be done?
• Global Response To Chronic Disease: From Apathy To Action
• Emerging Health Policy Research Conference
• Trade and its impact on health and development in the Pacific
• Innovations in Care – Local Hospital Networks and the Health Reform Agenda
• Innovations in Care - Where is Mental Health in the Health Reform Agenda?

International Developments in Health Systems: Addressing real issues or responding to fads and special interests

Thursday, 2 December, Australian National University

Panel:

• Professor Theodore Marmor, Emeritus Professor, Yale University
• Dr Kieke Okma, International health policy analyst
• Mr Robert Wells, Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy (Australian National University)

Recording: Click here to listen to a recording of the panel discussion.

Menzies Centre Oration: Value for Money in Health Care: Why It’s Hard to Achieve and What We Might Do About It

Wednesday, 10 November 2010, Australian National University

Guest Speaker: Steven Lewis, President, Access Consulting Ltd., Saskatoon, Canada; & Adjunct Professor of Health Policy University of Calgary & Simon Fraser University

Presentation Slides: Click here to view Steven Lewis's presentation slides.

Streaming Video: Click to watch on YouTube

The Case Against Health Insurance

Tuesday, 9 November 2010, Australian National University

Guest Speaker: Steven Lewis, President, Access Consulting Ltd., Saskatoon, Canada; & Adjunct Professor of Health Policy University of Calgary & Simon Fraser University

Recording: Click here to listen to a recording of the seminar.

Presentation Slides: Click here to view Steven Lewis's presentation slides.

Large System Transformation: What is it and can it be done?

Tuesday, 2 November 2010, University of Sydney

Guest Speaker: Adjunct Professor Steven Lewis

Panel:

• Dr Paul Gross, Health Group Strategies Pty Ltd, Australia and Greater China
• Dr Richard Matthews AM, Deputy Director-General, Strategic Development, NSW Health
• Professor Cliff Hughes AO, Chief Executive Officer, Clinical Excellence Commission
• Adjunct Professor Steven Lewis
  

Discussion Moderator: Professor Stephen Leeder, Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy.

Recording: Click here to listen to a recording of the seminar.

Presentation Slides: Click here to view Steven Lewis's presentation slides.

Global Response To Chronic Disease: From Apathy To Action

Thursday, 7 October 2010, University of Sydney

The Menzies Centre for Health Policy held the 2nd S.T. Lee Lecture on Thursday, 7 October.

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.

Guest Speaker: Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India

Presentation: Click here to view Professor Reddy's presentation

Recording: Click here to listen to Professor Reddy's presentation

Emerging Health Policy Research Conference

Wednesday, 11 August 2010, University of Sydney

The Menzies Centre for Health Policy held its 5th annual Emerging Health Policy Research Conference. Click here for a copy of the conference program

The conference showcased the work in progress of current doctoral and early career research workers.

Opening Keynote Speaker: Professor John Shine FAA AO, Executive Director, Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Conference Sessions:

Translating Knowledge into Policy and Practice

• Kathy Flitcroft, The role of deliberative strategies in getting evidence into policy (presentation slides not available)
• Catherine Settle, Citizen engagement: A socially situated critique of epistemic practices
• Fiona Robards, Happy, healthy and resilient young people: Who is responsible?
• Andrew Milat, Translating research into practice: The strategic development of the NSW Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service
• Professor Wipada Kunaviktikul, Knowledge and involvement of professional nurses regarding health policy development

Clinical Safety

• Jacqueline Milne, Interprofessional practice: what does it mean to doctors?
• Danny Hills, Workplace aggression in Australian clinical medical practice
• Jennifer Plumb, New approaches to patient safety in mental health care
• Debra Carnes, Method in the Madness: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) research design
• Su-yin Hor, Learning from incident reports: a study of local practices

Women’s Health

• Belinda Giles, Lay women have a complex adaptive concept of sufficient physical activity
• Hang Tran, Sex selective abortion in Vietnam: Practice and policy
• Beatriz Carrillo Garcia, China’s rural health governance: the case of maternity care
• Katherine Carroll, Fresh Egg Donation During IVF Treatment: Views from Australia

Improving Care Delivery

• Raelene West, Concepts of support – support frameworks for people with impairment (Did not present)
• Dr Lorna Barton, A deductive approach to acute medical service design
• Dr Justin McNab, SCIPPS phase two – Evaluation of chronic disease initiatives in Sydney West
• Liz Gill, Service co-creation in community based aged healthcare
• Dr Kirsten Harley, Researching the social experience of healthcare: the concept of boundaries

Inequalities

• Dr Angela Beaton, Death: No co-payment required (presentation slides not available)
• Maria Gomez, Do socioeconomic factors influence supermarket content and shoppers’ purchases?
• Greg Taylor, The prevalence of musculoskeletal conditions, pain and disability in children living in disadvantaged communities in the Philippines
• Raja Ajmal Jahangeer, Socioeconomic inequalities in early childhood malnutrition- The case of Pakistani children
• Beverley Essue, Economic hardship associated with managing chronic illness: a qualitative inquiry

Regulate or Reform?

• Jon Wardle, The rise and rise of complementary medicine: health policy implications and challenges
• Fiona Pacey, Health professional regulatory change – by the (policy) book?
• Elin Lehnbom, Opinions about Individual Electronic Health Records; a qualitative study
• Yongqiang Li, Wei Dai, Need assessment and feasibility of developing a responsive integrated e-health system (Did not present)
• Stuart Wark, Ageing and intellectual disability – The emerging health crisis

Identifying Influential Actors in Policy Making

• Carol Holden, Location, Location, Location: Networks in the National Men’s Health Policy
• Kathrin Schemann, Analysis of policy development during the 2007 equine influenza outbreak
• Terry Froggatt, Developing communities of learners – Mental Health Professionals Networks (MHPN) in Australia
• Amanda Wilson, Assessing the quality of health news stories in the Australian media using the Media Doctor Website

Health Economics (Evaluations)

• Hideki Higashi, Cost-effectiveness of kidney disease screening in Australia: general and Indigenous populations
• Bonny Parkinson, Considering consumer choice in the economic evaluation of mandatory health programmes
• Hideki Higashi, Cost-effectiveness of tobacco control policies in Vietnam: population vs. individual approaches
• Jody Church, Modelling the costs and benefits of interventions to prevent and reduce obesity (presentation slides not available)
• Anh Tuan Nguyen, Root causes of high medicine prices in Vietnam (presentation slides not available)

Workforce Management

• Christy Newman, Why be an HIV doctor? Interviews with policy 'key informants' (presentation slides not available)
• Dr Kylie Smith, Rethinking scholarship: implications for academic health workforce policy
• David Pereira, Healthcare human resource management: Different perceptions of policy and practice
• A/Professor Kirsty Douglas, Use of measures of socioeconomic deprivation in planning primary health care workforce and defining health care need in Australia

Panel: Health Policy in Action: taking advantage of international opportunities.

• Joel Negin, Lecturer, Sydney School of Public Health
• Anne Marie Thow, Associate Lecturer, Menzies Centre for Health Policy
• Dr Carmen Huckel-Schneider, Senior Analyst, Knowledge Transfer Program, Sax Institute

Evening Panel and Workshop: Research today improving health care tomorrow. Translating research and shaping policy for an agile self-improving health system (sponsored by Industry & Investment NSW).

Panel Chair: Professor Mary O’Kane, NSW Chief Scientist and Scientific Engineer

Click here for more information on the evening program.

Trade and its impact on health and development in the Pacific

Wednesday, 21 July 2010, University of Sydney

PACER -Plus is a new trade agreement being negotiated between Australia and 13 Pacific island countries, which has the potential to put ‘wealth before health’. Particpants at this workshop were invited to learn more about PACER-Plus and what they could do to make sure Australian trade policy does not undermine sustainable development and the right to health in the Pacific.

A copy of the program is available by clicking here.

Innovations in Care - Local Hospital Networks and the Health Reform Agenda

Tuesday, 6 July 2010, University of Sydney

Speakers:

• Professor Stephen Leeder, Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy
• Mr Terry Clout, Chief Executive, South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra AHS
• Dr Nigel Lyons, Chief Executive, Hunter New England AHS
• Dr Leon Clark, Chief Executive Officer, Sydney Adventist Hospital
• Dr Narelle Shadbolt, Department of General Practice (Hornsby)

Presentations: Click here to view Professor Leeder's presentation.

Recording: Click below to listen to a sound recordings of:

• Professor Leeder's presentation
• Panel member presentations
• Panel discussion

Innovations in Care - Where is Mental Health in the Health Reform Agenda?

Thursday, 20 May 2010, University of Sydney

Speakers:

• Dr Lesley Russell, Menzies Foundation Fellow, Menzies Centre for Health Policy (A policy perspective)
• Dr Andrew Pethebridge, St George Hospital (An acute care perspective)
• Mr David Crosbie, CEO, Mental Health Council of Australia (A community care perspective)
• Barbara Hocking OAM, Executive Director, SANE Australia (A community perspective)
• Professor Gavin Andrews AO, Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression (CRUfAD), UNSW at St Vincent’s Hospital (Discussion Moderator)

Presentations:

• Click here to view Dr Russell's slides.
• Click here to view Dr Russell's notes.

Recording: Click here to listen to an audio recording of the seminar.

Other: Click here to read a sample of media coverage on mental health policy leading up to the seminar.