2018 Summit
8th National Health Reform Summit
‘Equity, Efficiency and Sustainability’
26 – 27 March 2018
Hotel Pavilion, Northbourne Avenue, Canberra, ACT
Summit Program
OPENING SESSION
Matilda House, Welcome to Country
The Hon Greg Hunt, Minister for Health
Link to video message
SESSION 1: Broken or just cracked: can our health system be fixed or does it need to be rebuilt?
Mr Ian McAuley, Fellow, Centre for Policy Development
Dr Paul Jelfs, General Manager, Population and Social Statistics Division, Australian Bureau of Statistics
Professor Andrew Wilson, Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
SESSION 2: Shopping the pantry: what ideas and resources do we already have to improve the health system?
Professor Hal Swerissen, Fellow, Grattan Institute
Professor Jane Hall, Professor of Health Economics and Director of Strategy, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology
Professor Nick Graves, Academic Director, Queensland University of Technology
SESSION 3: Beyond the media headlines: engaging politicians and governments on the health issues that really matter
Mr Martin Laverty, Chief Executive Officer, Royal Flying Doctor Service
Ms Emma Campbell, Chief Executive Officer, Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Council of Australia
Adjunct Professor Michael Moore, Chief Executive, Public Health Association of Australia
The Hon Catherine King, Shadow Minister for Health and Medicare
SESSION 4: Soapbox presentations
SESSION 5: Re-imagining the health system
Mr Justin Mohamed, Chief Executive Officer, Equity Health Solutions
Powerpoint
Dr Tim Senior, GP working in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and media commentator
Professor Sharon Friel, Professor of Health Equity, Australian National University, Adviser to the WHO on the Social Determinants of Health
Emeritus Professor John Dwyer, AHCRA founder, Emeritus Professor of Medicine UNSW
SESSION 6: Discussion and wrap-up
Dr Fiona Tito-Wheatland, Health Care Consumers’ Association of the ACT
