Invited Speaker

Banok Rind   Aboriginal & Torres strait Islander health and wellbeing, leadership and young people.
  • September 13, 2019
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Lori-Ann Sharp This presentation aims to give an overview of the ANMF work and policy directions over the last 12-18 months. This will also include significant health policy developments that have occurred in each State and territory, for example VAD...
  • September 6, 2019
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Samantha Edmonds Silver Rainbow National Project Manager   There is a general invisibility of LGBTI elders within mainstream society and within LGBTI communities. In addition, LGBTI elders have experienced prejudice and discrimination over the life course, from government, agencies, organisations,...
  • September 3, 2019
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Karel Williams, RM, B Mid., BA Admin The health disadvantage experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is influenced by the effects of colonisation resulting in the current gaps in health outcomes. The Council of Australian Governments committed to...
  • August 8, 2019
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Sarah Brown   Purple house started with the dream of getting people home to country. An auction in 200o raised million dollars and allowed Pintupi to develop a whole new model of dialysis care on country. From November 2018 there...
  • June 12, 2018
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Michael Jenkins   Australia is famous for its outback, remote areas where the delivery of healthcare faces many obstacles. To deal with these obstacles, health services in Australia have had to develop unique strategies to deliver care. Famous examples—such as...
  • June 5, 2018
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Ian Hosegood   Qantas is the world’s second oldest airline and has its roots in rural and remote Australia, helping to overcome the tyranny of distance.  Qantas also has a proud tradition of supporting Australians and Australia’s national interests in...
  • June 4, 2018
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Barbara Shellian   There are 298,000 registered nurses in Canada and approximately 10% of registered nurses work in rural and remote areas of the country. Nursing in rural and remote Canada is subject to many challenges including geography, weather, access...
  • June 4, 2018
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Professor Ian Wronski AO Australia has made significant gains in addressing health workforce shortages in rural and remote areas. New workforce models such as medical and allied health rural generalism have increased supply in rural and remote areas and Australia...
  • May 18, 2018
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Professor Sue Kildea Director of the Midwifery Research Unit – Mater Health Services Brisbane and the University of Queensland   At a national workshop on ‘Birthing On Country’ in Alice Springs in 2012 participants proposed that the term ‘Birthing On...
  • October 4, 2017
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