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Program & Keynote Speakers
The following are the Program & Keynote Speakers for the World Congress of Health Professions:
- Doctor Rosalie A. Boyce
Dr Rosalie A. Boyce is internationally recognised for her expertise on the management and organisation of the allied health professions. Author of over 100 papers in academic and professional books, journals and conferences, Rosalie has adopted a comprehensive longitudinal research perspective over nearly two decades to investigate how these professions are reshaping themselves in the face of significant health workforce reform agendas. Rosalie has a rich and varied background which enables her to bring powerful insights and innovative leadership into the workforce reform arena generally, and specifically in the specialist niche of the allied health professions. Dr Boyce has five university degrees (B.Sc., Grad. Dip Dietetics, Grad. Dip Health Admin., M. Bus. and PhD) and practiced for 10 years as a health professional and department manager before commencing her research career. She also conducted a private practice to corporate clients and worked as a freelance journalist for the Melbourne AGE newspaper on health issues, as well as serving several terms in senior executive roles in the industrial relations arena. Dr Boyce has appointments at the University of Queensland, Australia, and Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Dr Boyce is also a Fellow of the Australian College of Health Service Executives.
- Professor Mohamed Abdulla
Professor Mohamed Abdulla, MD., PhD., is currently Professor of Medicine, Swedish Medical Board and is preceptor to a medical postgraduate program.
His academic interest: is in Nutrition, Gastroenterology, Public health and Environment.
He is author of more than 200 original publications, has contributed chapters in many books and periodicals and sits on the editorial committees of several scientific publications. During his distinguished career he has been consultant to: WHO, FAO, IAEA and UNESCO. He has organised and participated in over 100 international scientific meetings round the world. Professor Abdulla is a founding member of the International Society of Trace Element Research in Humans and the Trace Element Institute for UNESCO whose headquarters is in Lyons, France. The Institute’s aim is to improve human health and to provide a clearer understanding of the role of trace elements in biochemistry, human and animal physiology and in the environment as a whole and it does so through the activities of its satellite units. Its projects are structured on a multi-disciplinary model.
A global network of satellite centres has been established in Russia, Senegal, Turkey, Kenya, Czech Republic, Morocco, Mali, Mozambique, Libya, Lithuanian, Morocco, Tunisia, Hungary, Japan, India and the West Indies among others.
Professor Abdulla brings to this Congress a wealth of experience in the understanding and promotion of health for the planet and its population.
- Professor Jack Goldblatt
Professor Jack Goldblatt’s distinguished career spans thirty three years, commencing in South Africa and New York before moving to Western Australia in 1988. His current appointments are Director of the Familial Cancer Program and Director of Genetic Services for Western Australia, and Clinical Professor at the University of Western Australia. Professor Goldblatt‘s past and current membership of dozens of Societies, Colleges and advisory boards and his numerous lectures at conferences around the globe is testament to his on-going dedication to clinical excellence. His list of 148 publications encompasses clinical, biochemical and molecular genetic aspects of medical genetics. His research achievements are equally distinguished and his current research interests are the genetics of Asthma, Evolution of the immune system, Cancer, Infertility and the delineation of “new” genetic syndromes. Professor Goldblatt brings to this forum a wealth of knowledge in Human Genetics and its place in the arena of modern medicine. His talk is entitled “Practical Applications of Genetic Technology to Clinical Medicine”.
- Associate Professor Colleen Hayward
- Professor Hayward is Manager, the Kulunga Research Network of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and Associate Professor, Curtin University. She has an extensive policy, negotiation, advocacy and management background in health, education, training, employment and housing, including the Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Services agency, and was previously deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Aboriginal Legal Service of WA. Her expertise covers aboriginal child health, aboriginal disadvantage, aboriginal research and indigenous health policy. For more than 20 years she has influenced policies and programs on issues reflecting the needs of minority groups at State Government, national and community levels. This year she was recipient of the prestigious Premier of Western Australia’s Multicultural Ambassador Award for her commitment to progressing human rights and addressing racism in our community. Professor Hayward is a senior Noongar woman with family ties throughout the South-West of Western Australia and has built lasting partnerships and initiatives between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Western Australians. She is an inspiring speaker with the ability to communicate across cultural and other boundaries.
- Professor Sohail Inayatullah
Professor Sohail Inayatullah, a political scientist, is at Tamkang University, Taipei (Graduate Institute of Futures Studies), Visiting Academic/Research Associate at Queensland University of Technology (Centre for Social Change Research); Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast (Faculty of Social Sciences and the Arts); Associate, PROUT College, and Transcend Peace University. Dr. Inayatullah is a Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation and the World Academy of Art and Science. He is on the International Advisory Council of the World Future Society, and on the Professional Board of the Futures Foundation, Sydney. In 1999, Dr. Inayatullah held the UNESCO Chair at the Centre for European Studies, University of Trier, Trier, Germany and the Tamkang Chair in Futures Studies at Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan. From 1981 to 1991, he was senior policy analyst and planner with the Hawaii Judiciary, where he coordinated the Court’s Foresight Program.
- Doctor Norman Swan
Host of the Health Report, on ABC Radio National, presenter of Health Minutes on ABC NewsRadio and popular health commentator, speaker and facilitator, Dr Norman Swan, is a multi-award winning broadcaster and journalist.
One of the first medically qualified journalists in Australia, Norman was born in Scotland, graduated in medicine from the University of Aberdeen and later obtained his postgraduate qualifications in Paediatrics.
Joining the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1982, he has won numerous awards for his journalism and broadcasting.
Norman was named Australian Radio Producer of the Year in 1984 and was awarded a Gold Citation in the United Nations Media Peace Prizes for his radio work. He has won three Walkley National Awards for Australian journalism, including the prestigious Gold, and Australia’s top prize for Science Journalism, the Michael Daly Award, twice.
A famous example of Norman’s work is his much publicised and controversial investigative program on scientific fraud and the well-known gynaecologist Dr William McBride. The program exposed fraudulent research, sending shock waves throughout the medical world and led to Dr William McBride being de-registered. It earned Dr Swan the 1988 Australian Writers’ Guild Award for best documentary and a Gold Walkley.
In 2004 he was awarded the Medal of the Australian Academy of Science, an honour that had only been given three times and the Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow made him a Fellow. In 2006 he was given a Doctorate of Medicine Hon Causa by the University of Sydney during its medical school’s 150th anniversary.
In addition to the Health Report and Health Minutes, Norman edits his own newsletter, The Choice Health Reader, which is published in partnership with CHOICE.
On television, Dr Swan has hosted ABC Television’s science program, Quantum, and been a guest reporter on Catalyst and Four Corners. He hosted Health Dimensions on ABC Television, and created, wrote and narrated a four part series on disease and civilisation, “Invisible Enemies”, made for Channel 4(UK) and SBS Television. This has been shown in twenty seven countries. He also co-wrote and narrated “The Opposite Sex”, a four part series for ABC Television.
Norman Swan is known outside Australia. He has been the Australian correspondent for the Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal and consults for the World Health Organisation in Geneva.