Principal speaker
Professor Stephen Duckett
Griffith Public Health is pleased to invite you to attend an online research seminar with Professor Stephen Duckett, recent Director of Grattan Institute's Health and Aged Care Program. Professor Duckett has held top operational and policy leadership positions in health care in Australia and Canada, including as Secretary of what is now the Commonwealth Department of Health.
In this talk, Professor Duckett will analyse the Morrison government's response to the pandemic, and discuss why it has attracted a thesaurus of negative adjectives.
Title:
A phenomenal public administration failure: National health policy in COVID times
Abstract:
The Commonwealth government has four health-related responsibilities during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: to provide national leadership; to manage external borders; to protect residents of residential aged care facilities; and to approve, procure and roll-out tests and vaccines.
State governments are responsible for determining what public health measures are appropriate and implementing them - including managing the border quarantine arrangements and the testing, tracing, and isolation regime - and managing the hospital response.
Biography:
Professor Stephen Duckett has recently concluded a decade as Director of Grattan Institute's Health and Aged Care Program. He is an Honorary Enterprise Professor in the School of Population and Global Health and in the Department of General Practice at the University of Melbourne. He has held top health sector leadership positions in Australia and Canada, and has literally written the book on the Australian health care system (Oxford University Press, 6e, 2022). An economist, he is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
When
19 April 2022
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Australian Eastern Standard Time
Where
Online via Microsoft Teams.