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Workshop on Health Policy Across Nations
Friday 7 December 2007 2-5.00pm
Themes Seminars
December
PUBLIC & PRIVATE REASONING THEME and
COMPARATIVE PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNMENT THEME
Research School of Social Sciences/College of Arts & Social
Sciences
Workshop on Health Policy Across Nations
Friday 7 December 2007
2pm-5pm
Innovations Building Lecture Theatre, ANU
Keike Okma
Ministry of Health, Welfare & Sport, The Netherlands
Health Policy Change in Six Democracies
Theodore Marmor
Yale School of Management
Fads, Fallacies and Foolishness in Medical Care Policy and Management
Stephen Duckett
Executive Director, Reform and
Development Division, Queensland Health
(Secretary, Commonwealth Department of Human Services & Health 1994-1996)
An Australian Perspective
Theodore
Marmor was the editor of JHPPL
from 1980 to 1984 and has been a frequent contributor since then. He is a
professor of political science and a professor of public policy and management
at the Yale School of Management. He has spent his research career studying the
politics of the contemporary welfare state in the United States and other OECD
nations, with an emphasis on medical care reform and social security. He has
been the director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's postdoctoral program
in health policy, a recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Investigator in Health
Policy Award, and a centennial visiting professor at the London School of
Economics. He is widely known for his focus on comparative health politics. He
has authored and coauthored eleven books and published more than one hundred
articles in a wide range of scholarly journals as well as been a frequent op-ed
contributor to major U.S.
newspapers.
Kieke
G. H. Okma received a Ph.D. from the Medical Faculty at the University of Utrecht
and a master's degree in economics from Free University, Amsterdam. She now works as a senior policy
advisor at the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport in the Netherlands. In
1999-2002 she also held a part-time position as an associate professor at the School of Public Policy
Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario,
Canada. Prior
to that she was a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia,
Vancouver (1995-1998); executive secretary to the Steering Committee on Health
Care Reforms in Ministry of Welfare, Health and Cultural Affairs, the
Netherlands (1989-1993); adviser to the Parliamentary Investigative Committee
on Decision-Making in Health Care (1994); executive secretary to the Advisory
Committee on Budgeting Health Insurers (1993); executive secretary to the Advisory
Committee on the Position of Nursing Professionals (1990-1991); deputy director
of the Netherlands Foreign Trade Office (1987-1989); adviser on the
Investigative Committee on Housing Subsidies, Dutch Parliament (1987); second
economic secretary to the Netherlands Embassy, Washington, D.C. (1984-1987);
and technical assistant to the executive director of the World Bank,
Washington, D.C. (1982-1984). She also worked at the Department of
International Financial Relations, Ministry of Finance, The
Hague (1980-1982) and was a research fellow at the Center for World
Food Studies, Free University, Amsterdam
(1977-1980). Since 1995 she has been the chair, rapporteur, and member of the
steering committee of the annual Four Country Conference of Health Care Policies
and Health Care Reforms.
Stephen
Duckett is Executive Director of the Reform and Development Division of
Queensland Health. He was formerly (April 1996 to December 2005) Professor of
Health Policy and Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at La Trobe University.
From 1994 to March 1996 he was Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of
Human Services and Health. From 1983 to 1993 Professor Duckett held various
operational and policy positions in the Victorian Department of Health and
Community Services and its predecessors, including Director of Acute Health
Services, in which position he was responsible for designing and implementing Victoria's casemix
funding policy. He is currently Chair of the Board of Directors of Bayside
Health (the metropolitan health service responsible for The Alfred, Caulfield
and Sandringham hospitals), Chair of the Board
of Directors of the Brotherhood of St Laurence and Convenor of the Council of
Deans of Health Sciences.
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