Update           Issue 1, 2007

Strategic Directions
Spotlight
Latest News
Latest Events
Contact Us

Welcome to the first AIHPS Update for 2007.   These updates will be available each month to all AIHPS Subscribers.

This first edition for 2007 takes on a new format and we hope that this will assist all to access the latest news and events from AIHPS and around the world.  We preview new directions for AIHPS in 2007, including our new Board. 

We hope you enjoy this first new edition of the AIHPS update and that you would pass this onto interested colleagues.  We would also appreciate your comments, feedback and ideas via email

Strategic Directions

Each month we will update all subscribers about the latest in the AIHPS work and research program.

Governance & Management
The AIHPS Board has now been formalised and in January 2007, the two newest members of the AIHPS Board will be welcomed, Robert Griew and Philippa Smith. 

Roundtable & Seminar program 
The next AIHPS Roundtable will be held in April 2007.  We will keep you informed once the date, venue and topic are finalised. 

Stay tuned to the AIHPS website  for updates

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AIHPS Spotlight

Each month we get an insight of our AIHPS members - this month's "Spotlight" is on Robert Griew...

What is your current position?
Robert Griew is Director of his own health consulting company, working in Australia and the Asia Pacific region.  He also holds a conjoint appointment as an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of NSW. (Photo: Robert working in Samoa in local business attire).

What is your role in AIHPS?
In addition he serves as a Board member of the Australian Institute of Health Policy Studies (AIHPS).

What positions have you held?
Robert has just finished four years as CEO of the Northern Territory Department of Health and Community Services.  During that time he chaired the National PUblic Health Partnership and the standing committtees on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander services for both Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council and the Community and Disability Services Ministers Advisory Council.  He also chaired Ministerial working groups that examined remote area renal services and child health and wellbeing.

Prior to working in the NT, Robert held a range of senior jobs in health services.  He ran the Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, following the transfer or responsibility from ATSIC to the Commonwealth Health Department in 1995.  He has also run the Commonwealth's Aged and Community Care programs and the AIDS Council of NSW.

What motivated you to work in the health sector/chosen field?
Robert was always interested in work in human services.  His first jobs were in children's services and it is through his interest in early childhood policy that he joined the public service.  He has always been engaged in children's interests and believed that we need to do better in the integration of thinking about child development, health and welfare.

In the early 1980s he did a student placement in an Aboriginal community on the NSW south coast.  In the mid 1990s he became responsible for the national Aboriginal health program.  Both experiences reinforced his belief in the imperative of integrated children's policy.

What do you hope to achieve in your position?
He is interested in the possibility of promoting Aboriginal health policy and intersectoral thinking about children's health development and welfare through his involvement with AIHPS.

Latest News

     National News
  Review urged of doctor’s selection – 5 February
  Second-tier medicos a skills issue – 3 February
  Potholes in the road to policy – 27 January
  Revamp of doctor watchdog urged – 25 January 
Workforce participation rates: how does Australia compare? - 23 January
   Private hospitals essential for training says medical deans – 17 January
                   Better medicine for all in single-source funding – 10 January

                       International News 
                    Bush seeks big Medicare and Medicaid saving – 2 February (US)
                    Law shifts NIH balance of power – 31 January (UK)
                    EU health boss seeks smoking ban in public places – 30 January (EU)
                    Doctor group joins call for healthcare overhaul – 22 January (US)

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Latest Events

   February 2007
  12th
  Integrating and sustaining community/consumer participation 
  Training researchers to engage with public policy
                      
 21st
                          From welfare to social investment: reimagining social policy   
                                   Kindling the flame: promoting mental health and wellbeing

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