National Preventative Health Strategy – the roadmap for action
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- Dr Shaun Larkin
- Professor Leonie Segal
- Medical and clinical expertise
- Professor Rob Moodie – Chair
- Professor Mike Daube – Deputy Chair
- Professor Paul Zimmet AO
- AHMC Nominated Jurisdictional Members: Dr Christine Connors
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Professor Mike Daube, (Deputy Chair) Professor of Health Policy at Curtin University of Technology, former Director-General of WA Department of Health, and expert in public health, tobacco prevention and alcohol policy. Ms Kate Carnell AO, CEO of the Australian Food and Grocery Council, former ACT Chief Minister, and former pharmacist. Dr Christine Connors, Director, Preventable Chronic Disease Program, Northern Territory Department of Health and Community Services. Dr Shaun Larkin, General Manager at not-for-profit health insurer HCF. Dr Lyn Roberts AM, CEO of the National Heart Foundation with wide-ranging experience in public health promotion, particularly in cardiovascular disease and cancer, and current Chair of the Australian Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance. Professor Leonie Segal, Foundation Chair in Health Economics at the University of South Australia. Dr Linda Selvey, Deputy Chief Health Officer and Senior Director, Population Health, Queensland Health. Professor Paul Zimmet AO, Professor and Director of the International Diabetes Institute, and expert in obesity and type 2 diabetes prevention. The Taskforce will also co-opt external expertise as required, particularly including:
Accountability and deliverables The Taskforce will report to the Commonwealth Minister for Health and Ageing. The Taskforce will use a multidisciplinary approach, operate in a collaborative, open and consultative manner, and work in partnership with existing agencies and bodies working in associated areas. The Taskforce will provide:
The Taskforce shall be supported in its operations by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. APPENDIX 2: Preventative Health Taskforce member profiles Professor Rob Moodie – Chair P Professor Mike Daube – Deputy Chair P Ms Kate Carnell AO K Dr Shaun Larkin S Prior to joining HCF, Shaun was based in Singapore for four years where he led the establishment of a chain of ambulatory medical centres throughout Asia. Before this he worked for nine years as an executive for a large private hospital operator (Ramsay Health Care) in Australia and the United States.
D Professor Leonie Segal P Professor Paul Zimmet AO P AHMC Nominated Jurisdictional Members: Dr Christine Connors D Dr Linda Selvey D APPENDIX 3: Formal consultations conducted by the Preventative Health Taskforce
APPENDIX 4: Submissions to the Preventative Health Taskforce
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rofessor Moodie is Professor of Global Health at the Nossal Institute for Global Health at the University of Melbourne, and former CEO of the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation since 1998. Since 1979 he has worked for Save the Children Fund, Médicins Sans Frontières, Congress (the community-controlled Aboriginal Health Service in Alice Springs), the Burnet Institute, and for the World Health Organization and UNAIDS. Professor Moodie also chairs the Technical Panel to the Gates Foundation Avahan Program in India, and the Melbourne Storm Rugby League Club.
rofessor Mike Daube is Professor of Health Policy at Curtin University of Technology, and Director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute of WA. He was Western Australia’s Director General of Health from 2001 to 2005, and Chair of the National Public Health Partnership. He is currently President of the Public Health Association of Australia, the Australian Council on Smoking and Health and the WA Heart Foundation, and Chair of the WA Alcohol and Drug Authority. He has played a leading role in tobacco control, alcohol and other public health issues nationally and internationally for many years, and has advised governments and NGOs in some 30 countries. He has received awards for his work from organisations including the World Health Organization, the Public Health Association, the Australian Medical Association, Healthway, the Heart Foundation, 
ate Carnell is currently Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Food and Grocery Council. She was ACT chief minister from 1995 to 2000, and received the Liberal Party’s Distinguished Service Award in 2002. Ms Carnell has been the chief executive of development at TransACT Communications in 2001, Director of NRMA Ltd from 2001 to 2002, and Executive Director of the National Association of Forest Industries. She is an Honorary Ambassador for Canberra and became the Director of the Multicultural Business Chamber of Australia Ltd in 2001. She has received the Paul Harris Award from Rotary.
haun Larkin joined the Hospitals Contribution Fund of Australia (HCF) in 1997 as General Manager, Strategic Development. He was appointed General Manager, Benefits Management in 2002 and in November 2007 began leading HCF’s development of a new corporate ventures function. This function
is dedicated to seeking out and forming strategic and financial partnerships with innovative companies that share HCF’s commitment to improving healthcare
quality, service and affordability.
r Lyn Roberts has been CEO of the National Heart Foundation of Australia since 2001. Dr Roberts has developed national cardiovascular health programs within Australia, has been extensively involved with cancer prevention programs and is regarded as an expert on tobacco control matters. She is past Chair of the Australian Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance (ACDPA; members: Cancer Council Australia, Diabetes Australia, Kidney Health Australia, National Stroke Foundation and National Heart Foundation of Australia) and is a member of a number of expert advisory committees for the government and non-government sectors. In 1997 Dr Roberts was awarded an Order of Australia (AM) for service to the community and to health, particularly in the fields of health promotion, cancer prevention awareness and lifestyle education. Dr Roberts was elected to the Board of the World Heart Federation (WHF) in 2006 and is Vice President.
rofessor Segal is Foundation Chair in Health Economics at the University of South Australia. Her research interests 
rofessor Zimmet pioneered Australia’s first institute dedicated exclusively to diabetes research, education and clinical care, becoming the Foundation Director when the International Diabetes Institute (IDI) was opened in July 1985. He was Professor of Diabetes at Monash University from 1989–1997. In 1993 he was awarded the Order of Australia (AM) for distinguished services to medicine and education, particularly in the field of diabetes.
In 2001 he was honoured as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for medical research of national and international significance, particularly in diabetes, and for contributions to Australia’s biotechnology development. In July 2008 the IDI merged with the Baker Heart Research Institute to establish the Baker IDI
Heart and Diabetes Institute. Professor Zimmet is Director Emeritus and Director of International Research in the new institute.
r Christine Connors is a General Practitioner and Public Health Physician who has been working in the Northern Territory for over 20 years, providing clinical and public health services to remote Indigenous communities. Dr Connors was involved in developing the NT Preventable Chronic Disease Strategy and has been leading its implementation in the Northern Territory. She is the Director of the Preventable Chronic Disease Program for the Department of Health & Community Services. She is involved in a number of research projects with the Menzies School of Health Research and the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health.
r Linda Selvey is currently Senior Director, Population Health and Offender Health Services with Queensland Health. Previously she was Director, Communicable Diseases Unit with Queensland Health. She is a Public Health Physician and also has a PhD in Immunology. She is currently Deputy Chair of the Australian Population Health Development Principal Committee, and Chair of the Blood Borne Virus and STI Subcommittee of this Committee. She has previously been a member of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Council, and a member of Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation. Her special interests are primary prevention of chronic diseases, and HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C prevention and management. She has been an active environmentalist since the early 1980s and is particularly passionate about climate change. She was recently trained as a climate change presenter by former US Vice President Al Gore, who is training climate change presenters around the world as part of the Climate Project.