The Program is Provisional and will be updated as planning proceeds.
VIRTUALLY TOGETHER – REFORM
| 0930-1000 | Icebreaker Networking |
| PLENARY SESSION #1 | |
| 1000-1020 | Delegate Welcome & Housekeeping |
| Welcome to Country | |
| Official Opening | |
| 1020-1030 | Plenary Address: Allied health as Change Agent – Major National Reforms Anne-marie Boxall, Chief Allied Health Officer, Commonwealth Department of Health Anne-marie leads engagement with the allied health sector and works within and across government to promote the role of allied health professionals. Prior to this, Anne-marie worked in the Department on long-term health system reform… Click here to read more! |
| 1030-1040 | Plenary Panel #1: Leading Australia’s Reforms Chair: Anne-marie Boxall |
| 1040-1110 | Future directions for Allied Health in Rural and Regional Areas Adj. Professor Ruth Stewart, National Rural Health Commissioner, Commonwealth Department of Health Adj. Professor Ruth Stewart was appointed as the second National Rural Health Commissioner for Australia in July 2020. She brings to the role nearly 30 years of work as a Rural Generalist doctor with the advanced skills of a GP obstetrician… Click here to read more! |
Role and Opportunities for Allied Health in Aged Care Sector Janet Anderson, Commissioner, Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission Janet has been the Commissioner of the national Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission since the establishment of that organisation in January 2019. As Commissioner, she leads a workforce of around 750 staff across Australia with statutory responsibility for regulating the Commonwealth-funded aged care sector… Click here to read more! |
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| Role and Opportunities for Allied Health in NDIS Sector Robert Griew, Complaints Commissioner, NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission |
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| 1110-1135 | Panel Discussion |
| 1135-1145 | Consumer Video |
| 1145-1215 | Exhibition & Morning Tea Break |
| CONCURRENT SESSION #1 | |
| 1215-1315 | Oral Presentations – submit an abstract here |
| 1315-1400 | Exhibition & Lunch Break |
| CONCURRENT SESSION #2 | |
| 1400-1500 | Oral Presentations – submit an abstract here |
| 1500-1505 | Changeover Break |
| 1505-1530 | Networking & Discussion |
VIRTUALLY TOGETHER – INNOVATE
| 0930-0950 | Icebreaker Networking |
| PLENARY SESSION #2 | |
| 0955-1000 | Day Two Opening |
| 1000-1045 | Keynote Address: The Future of Allied Health Gihan Perera Gihan Perera is a futurist, conference speaker, author and consultant who gives you a glimpse into what’s ahead – and how you can become fit for the future, in your professional and personal life. Since 1997, he has worked with business leaders, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and other change agents – helping them with their strategy for thriving in a fast-changing world… Click here to read more! |
| 1045-1110 | Keynote Address: Louise Schaper
Dr Louise Schaper is on a mission to fix healthcare. As leader of Australia’s peak body for digital health, Dr Louise Schaper is a passionate advocate for the transformation of healthcare, enabled by technology… Click here to read more! |
| 1110-1130 | Exhibition & Morning Tea Break |
| CONCURRENT SESSION #3 | |
| 1130-1230 | Oral Presentations – submit an abstract here |
| 1230-1300 | Exhibition & Lunch Break |
| PLENARY SESSION #3 | |
| 1300-1345 | Plenary Panel |
| 1345-1415 | Keynote Speakers: Nic Marchesi & Lucas Patchett from Orange Sky
In October 2014, two best mates had a crazy idea to put two washing machines and two dryers in the back of a van, to wash and dry clothes for free. Nicholas Marchesi and Lucas Patchett, awarded the 2016 Young Australians of the Year and recently the Order of Australia Medal, founded Orange Sky – a world-first, free mobile laundry and shower service for people experiencing homelessness… Click here to read more! |
| 1415-1420 | Consumer Video |
| 1420-1430 | Changeover Break |
| CONCURRENT SESSION #4 | |
| 1430-1530 | Oral Presentations – submit an abstract here |
| 1530-1615 | Networking & Discussion |
VIRTUALLY TOGETHER – ACHIEVE
| 0930-1000 | Icebreaker Networking |
| PLENARY SESSION #4 | |
| 1000-1005 | Day Three Opening |
| 1005-1045 | Plenary Address: Allied Health New Strategies to realise our potential Martin Chadwick, New Zealand Chief Allied Health Officer Martin is the Chief Allied Health Professions Officer within the Ministry of Health, working in partnership with the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Nursing Office in providing transdisciplinary clinical leadership and advice. The role works at a systems level as well as providing support to clinicians, programmes and projects across the Ministry… Click here to read more! |
| 1045-1100 | Consumer Video & Launch |
| 1100-1130 | Exhibition & Morning Tea Break |
| CONCURRENT SESSION #5 | |
| 1130-1230 | Oral Presentations – submit an abstract here |
| 1230-1300 | Exhibition & Lunch Break |
| CONCURRENT SESSION #6 | |
| 1300-1400 | Oral Presentations – submit an abstract here |
| 1400-1410 | Changeover Break |
| PLENARY SESSION #5 | |
| 1410-1505 | Keynote Address: Sam’s Story Sam Bloom Sam Bloom is a 2 x World Para Surfing Champion, bestselling author, and inspiration behind the Australian box-office hit and global Netflix sensation Penguin Bloom, starring and produced by two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts. In 2013, while holidaying in Thailand with her husband and three young sons, Sam unknowingly leant on a rotten balcony railing, falling through it and plunging six metres onto the concrete below… Click here to read more! |
| 1505-1530 | Closing & Handover |
| 1530 | 14th NAHC Concludes |
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