Policy Bites – From Clinics to Governance: Scaling Person-Centred Care for Whole-System Transformation

The Sydney Policy Lab invites you a Policy Bites seminar with Professor Axel Wolf.

Light lunch will be provided. Space is limited. Please register to secure your place.

Policy Bites – From Clinics to Governance: Scaling Person-Centred Care for Whole-System Transformation

For 15 years, the Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC) has built evidence for safer, more effective, and more equitable care from the ground up—together with patients and clinics. Now, the challenge is to connect this bottom-up innovation with top-down governance, shifting financial and structural steering from silos toward whole-system approaches.

This talk will explore both the barriers and the opportunities, making the case that aligning person-centred systems, networks, and partnerships across all levels is the only path to sustainable health systems.

About Professor Axel Wolf

Axel Wolf is a full professor in anaesthesia nursing at the OsloMet University in Oslo, Norway and holds a combined position as Professor and senior consultant nurse anaesthetist at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital and Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg. He is also the vice head for Innovation, Digitalisation and Utilisation at the Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has an executive MBA degree from the University of Gothenburg School of Business, Economics & Law and a PhD in healthcare science from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg.

Time and location

1:00 pm, Tuesday 7 October 2025.

Seminar Room 203, RD Watt Building (A04), Science Road, The University of Sydney, NSW 2050.

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Accessibility

We are committed to ensuring our spaces are safe, accessible and enjoyable for all. The RD Watt building is fully accessible for people who use wheelchairs or other mobility aids and service animals are welcome. Enter via the rear door of the RD Watt Building, near the entrance to the Social Sciences Building at the University of Sydney. Our meeting and events space is equipped with PA and assistive listening systems.

If you have any other access requirements, please do let us know when you register.

About Policy Bites

The Sydney Policy Lab’s lunchtime seminars – Policy Bites – are a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their exploratory and applied policy work in its early stages. Each public seminar gathers the Lab community in our collaborative space to hear and discuss new research as we exchange ideas across disciplines.

Policy Bites are organised by Dr Kate Harrison Brennan (Director, Sydney Policy Lab), Dr Assel Mussagulova (Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Administration, School of Social and Political Sciences) and Associate Professor Meru Sheel (Sydney School of Public Health).