8th National Health Reform Summit ‘Equity, Efficiency and Sustainability’ Program 26 - 27 March 2018 Pavilion Hotel, 242 Northbourne Avenue, Canberra, ACT Monday, 26 March 2018: Lobbying and Communications Workshop, Four Seasons Room 12.45 pm Registration – Lobbying 101 - Adrienne Day, Day & Hodge Associates 5.00 pm Dealing with the media on health issues – John Flannery, Australian Medical Association, Danial Burdon, Canberra Times How to write a press release and maximize its impact – Jennifer Doggett, Croakey Editor Using social media in health campaigns – Ray Bange, AHCRA Executive Successful campaign in the community/not-for-profit sector – Rebecca Vassarotti Technically speaking - promoting and delivering your event on a budget – Frank Meany, One Vision, Audio Visual Technical Producer committed to assisting health and medical organisations achieve the best results from their conferences and events Tuesday, 27 March 2018: Summit Opening 8.30 am Registration, tea/coffee 9.00 am Hon Dr Matilda House, Ngambri-Ngunnawal Elder Welcome to Country 9.10 am Ms Jennifer Doggett, Chair, National Health Reform Summit Welcome and introductions Message from the Minister for Health, the Hon Greg Hunt (via video) SESSION 1: Broken or just cracked: can our health system be fixed or does it need to be rebuilt? Chair: Dr Christine Walker, CEO, Chronic Illness Alliance and AHCRA Executive Member 9.20 am Mr Ian McAuley, Fellow, Centre for Policy Development – Dr Paul Jelfs, General Manager, Population and Social Statistics Division, Australian 10.30 am Bureau of Statistics Professor Andrew Wilson, Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney Discussion and debate with speakers and audience 10.30 am Morning tea SESSION 2: Shopping the pantry: what ideas and resources do we already have to improve the health system? Chair: Dr Tim Woodruff, Deputy-Chair, AHCRA 11.00 am Professor Hal Swerissen, Fellow, Grattan Institute – Professor Jane Hall, Professor of Health Economics and Director of Strategy, Centre for 12.00 pm Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology Professor Nick Graves, Academic Director, Queensland University of Technology Discussion and debate with speakers and audience SESSION 3: Beyond the media headlines: engaging politicians and governments on the health issues that really matter Chair: Dr Tessa Boyd-Caine, AHCRA Executive 12.00 pm Mr Martin Laverty, Chief Executive Officer, Royal Flying Doctor Service - Ms Emma Campbell, Chief Executive Officer, Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Council 1.00 pm of Australia Adjunct Professor Michael Moore, Chief Executive, Public Health Association of Australia Discussion and debate with speakers and audience 1.00 pm The Hon Catherine King, Shadow Minister for Health and Medicare 1.15pm Lunch SESSION 4: Soapbox presentations Chair: Ms Annette Panzera, AHCRA Executive 2.00 pm Format: a series of short (around 3 minute) speeches from (self-nominated) participants on a - 2.45 pm key issue relevant to the Summit. SESSION 5: Re-imagining the health system Chair: Dr Sebastian Rosenberg, AHCRA Executive 2.45 pm Mr Justin Mohamed, Chief Executive Officer, Equity Health Solutions - Dr Tim Senior, GP working in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and media 3.45 pm 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 Discussion and debate with speakers and audience 3.45 pm Afternoon tea SESSION 6: Discussion and wrap-up Chair: Ms Jennifer Doggett, Chair, Australian Health Care Reform Alliance 4.15 m Personal reflection by Dr Fiona Tito-Wheatland, Health Care Consumers' Association of - 5.00 pm the ACT Open discussion involving speakers and attendees and development of Summit communique 8th National Health Reform Summit ‘Equity, Efficiency and Sustainability’ Speaker bios Professor John Dwyer Dr Emma Campbell, Chief Executive Officer, AHCRA founder Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Council of Emeritus Professor of Medicine UNSW Australia Professor Dwyer has championed in Australia the Emma has hands-on experience of the humanitarian resurgence of clinician governance and is much sector, high-level business and academia. She brings involved in efforts to create structural reform within to FECCA in-depth knowledge of migration, refugees, the Australian health care delivery system. He has multicultural affairs, international and domestic been heavily involved in the development of politics and migrant health. “Integrated Primary Care” in Australia, a model that Emma previously worked with the international emphasises prevention, early diagnosis, team medical charity, Médecins sans Frontières in Africa management of Chronic and Complex diseases and and the Middle East on various projects including care in the community for many currently sent to those focused on HIV/TB, refugees, armed conflict hospital. and Ebola. Her other previous roles include He was a member of the NSW Department of Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National Health’s Health Care Advisory Council for 15 years University’s Korea Institute; Adviser to the Deputy and Chairman of the Medical Staff Executive Council Leader of the Opposition; senior management of NSW from 1990 to 2005. He founded the positions at the Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Australian Health Care Reform Alliance in 2003, which Pacific Airways; and Researcher at the North Korea sees organisations now speaking with one voice on Database Centre. the need for reforms to the Australian Health Care Emma has worked or lived in more than 10 countries system. and territories including Lebanon, Sierra Leone, South For eleven years he wrote a weekly newspaper Korea, China, India, Swaziland, Turkey and Hong column on health matters and has been a frequent Kong. She speaks Chinese and Korean and has an public commentator on matters related to health extensive understanding of issues faced by Australia’s care. In 2005 he retired from his position of Clinical diverse and multicultural communities. Dean and Chairman of the Division of Medicine of Dr Campbell holds a Bachelors of Law and Chinese Prince of Wales Hospital. His University honoured him from the University of Leeds and a Master’s degree in by granting him Emeritus Professor Status. He is Political Science from the School of Oriental and currently President of “Friends of Science in African Studies, University of London. She has a PhD Medicine” an organisation championing the in Political and Social Change from the Australian importance of health care being evidence based and National University. Emma has published widely on a is an advocate for more rural based medical schools range of topics including Korean unification, security, to train rural students who are likely to pursue a rural migration and humanitarian assistance. Her book A based career. New Nationalism in South Korea: The End of “One Korea”? was published this year by Lynne Rienner Publishers. Ms Summer May Finlay Professor Nick Graves Yorta Yorta woman, Public Health Practitioner, Professor of Health Economics Croakey contributor Queensland University of Technology Summer is a Yorta Yorta Woman who grew up in Lake Nick is an internationally renowned health economist Macquarie near Newcastle. She specialises in health and has been the Academic Director of AusHSI since policy, qualitative research and communications. She its inception in 2011. has worked in Aboriginal affairs at the National level and has strong professional connections across the Nick’s specialist areas of knowledge include health country in the Aboriginal Community Controlled economics; health services research; decision making; Health Service sector. cost-effectiveness; prevalence of high-value and low- value care and its effects on patients; healthcare Summer is currently self employed as a researcher associated infection; health behaviour change and communications consultant, while undertaking a interventions; screening for infectious and chronic PhD at the University of South Australia. She is also a disease; and how research funding is allocated. Nick’s contributing editor for Croakey.org. With the Croakey major focus is on showing how health services can be team she was one of the authors of the book improved at low cost, or even improved with cost #JustJustice- Tackling the over-incarceration of savings. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Summer is an avid tweeter whose handle is @OnTopicAus. Nick has received more than $20M in research funding since 2004, mostly from international and She is currently the Aboriginal and Torres Strait national competitive schemes. He has made research Islander Special Interest Coordinator for the Public contributions of international significance, publishing Health Association of Australia (PHAA) and was over 100 articles in top-ranking peer reviewed previously the Acting Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander journals such as Nature, JAMA, BMJ, AIDS, Health Vice President for the PHAA. She is also the Co-Vice Economics, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Lancet Chair of the recently established World Federation of Infectious Diseases, The Journal of Infectious Diseases Public Health Associations Indigenous Working and Emerging Infectious Diseases. Group. Summer has a Bachelor of Social Science from Macquarie University, a Master of Public Health He gained his PhD in Health Economics from