Building the Future Health and Care Workforce | featuring Adjunct Professor Stephen Duckett
Description
Join our panel of leading academics and industry experts in exploring a new approach to building the health and care workforce that meets the needs of Australian communities and supports Government priorities.
This seminar will provide an opportunity to hear about these propositions, identify areas of consensus and challenge, and consider what practical actions could strengthen Australia's health and care workforce system over the coming decades.
The seminar will be anchored in a new paper by University of Canberra Adjunct Professor Stephen Duckett, who argues in Getting planning for the health and social care workforce right that while Australia has produced numerous workforce strategies and plans, workforce shortages continue to deepen across health, aged care and community services. Professor Kasia Bail from the Centre for Ageing Research and Translation at the University of Canberra and Professor Mark Cormack, National Centre for Health Workforce Studies, ANU will offer reflections on Stephen’s paper.
Professor Duckett’s paper is the first Occasional Paper in a series, Australian Futures, published by the Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI), led by Professor Frank Bongiorno.
Hosted by the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas in conjunction with UC Partnerships & Engagement.
Panel

Stephen Duckett
Dr Stephen Duckett is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra. He has held top health sector leadership positions in Australia and Canada and literally wrote the book on the Australian health care system (Oxford University Press, 6e, 2022).

Kasia Bail
Professor Kasia Bail is a registered nurse and Professor of Nursing at the University of Canberra. Professor Bail is the workforce lead within the Centre for Ageing Research and Translation and is the Chief investigator for the Clinical Placements with Older People Project.

Mark Cormack
Professor Mark Cormack is Professor (in the Practice), Health System Policy, at the National Centre for Health Workforce Studies (NCHWS) at Australian National University since 2023. Professor Cormack has previously served the Commonwealth, ACT and NSW governments in top leadership roles.
Program
- 5:30 pm
Guest arrival
- 6:00 pm
Welcome and opening remarks | Professor Frank Bongiorno
- 6:10 pm - 6:30 pm
Keynote presentation | Professor Stephen Duckett
- 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Panel discussion and Q&A | Professor Stephen Duckett in conversation with Professor Kasia Bail and Professor Mark Cormack
- 7:00 pm
Networking (light refreshments served)
- 7:45 pm
Event concludes
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