Keynote Speaker Presentations

Keynote 1: Madalene Soares, Health Service Manager, Timor Leste

Implementation of integrated health systems at the community level (SISCa) in Timor-Leste

Keynote 3: Peter Macdonald, President, Australian Doctors International

Working for a healthier Papua New Guinea

Keynote 4: Sam Prince, Principal, One Disease At A Time

Eradicating scabies in the Asia-Pacific

Keynote 5: Max Kamien, University of Western Australia 

The struggle to grow our own health professionals in rural Australia

Panel session 

Panel session (5-minute statements followed by facilitated discussion)

• Judith Adams—Rural families as health consumers

• Tom Calma—Health and wellbeing of Australia’s first peoples

• Colleen Hayward—The social determinants of good health
  

• Mike Daube—Public health in the bush 
  

• Sandra Dunn—Interprofessional learning, multidisciplinary care and workforce redesign

Keynote 6: Brendon Grylls, Western Australian Minister for Regional Development 

Healthy regions for healthy communities

Keynote 7: Pat Dudgeon, University of Western Australia 

Mental health and racism

Keynote 8: Christine Jeffries-Stokes and Annette Stokes, University of Western Australia

Seriously creative: managing chronic conditions in the heart of Western Australia

Keynote 9: Amanda Sheedy

From public participation to social movements: engaging citizens in policy development in Canada

Keynote 10: Desley Renton

Engaging rural communities to produce a sustainable decision

Keynote 11: Gavin Mooney

Citizens’ juries: a citizens’ revolution in rural health

Keynote 12: Dr Rob Patuzzi, University of Western Australia

The Libby Harricks Memorial Oration: Molecules, managers or mentors: how can we minimise noise damage at the worksite?

Keynote 14: John Menadue, Centre for Policy Development

The costs and benefits of reform in the rural and remote health workforce

Keynote 15: Robyn McDermott, University of South Australia

Good things take time—and come in little parcels

Keynote  16: Teresa Wall, Te Kete Hauora, New Zealand Ministry of Health

Reducing health inequalities for Maori

Keynote 17: Methuen Morgan, environmental psychologist and farmer
 

Rural people’s responses to environmental stress

Keynote 18: Colin McAllan, Chair, Gormandale Community Recovery Committee and Youth Leadership Program 

After the Victorian bushfires: not just surviving but building and growing

Keynote 19: Mukesh Haikerwal, Lead Clinician Group, National e-health Transition Authority 

E-health and natural disasters: planning, communications, mitigation and recovery

      Closing address: Nicola Roxon, Minister for Health and Ageing