2008 Fulbright Symposium

Speakers

	Nicola Roxon is the Minister for Health & Ageing in the new Labor Government.Nicola has been in Parliament for 10 years was elected to the House of Representatives October in 1998 as the Federal Labor Member for Gellibrand. Read more

	Professor Sir Michael Marmot is Director, International Institute for Society and Health and MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London. Read more

	Dr David Satcher is the Director, Center of Excellence on Health Disparities, Poussaint-Satcher-Cosby Chair in Mental Health, Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta , Georgia and the 16th Surgeon General of the United States. Read more

	David Korten is co-founder and board chair of the Positive Futures Network, which publishes YES! magazine. Read more

	Paula Braveman is Professor of Family and Community Medicine and the Director, Center on Social Disparities in Health in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Read more

	Pat Anderson is an Alyawarre woman renowned nationally and internationally as a powerful advocate of disadvantaged people, with a particular focus on the health of Indigenous peoples. Read more

	Professor Ian Anderson is the Director of the Centre for Health and Society, and of Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit. Read more

	Mick Gooda is the Chief Executive Officer of the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health (CRCAH). Read more

	Shane Houston is a Gangulu man from Central Queensland. He has worked in Aboriginal Affairs for more than 35 years with the majority of that time in the health and employment areas. Read more

	After training as a research psychologist at the University of Western Australia and lecturing in a number of Australian universities, Dr Lawrence entered politics in 1986, serving at both State and Federal levels for 21 years. Read more

	As Chief Executive of the South Australian Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Warren McCann leads a number of major initiatives across government including the implementation of South Australia 's Strategic Plan and public sector reform. Read more

	Jennie Popay has been Professor of Sociology and Public Health at the Institute for Health Research at Lancaster University since January 2002. She was previously at the Nuffield Institute, University of Leeds, the University of Salford and the Institute of Education, London University. View more

	Professor Fran Baum is Head of Department and Professor of Public Health at Flinders University, Foundation Director of South Australian Community Health Research Unit, the regional representative for the People's Health Movement in Australia and Pacific, and Chair of its Global Steering Committee and a commissioner for the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. Read more

	Sue Richardson was appointed as Director of the National Institute for Labour Studies (NILS) in 2000. Prior to that she was Associate Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Adelaide. In 2004, Prof Richardson was appointed as a Commissioner (part-time) of the Essential Services Commission, SA. Read more

	Professor Dennis Foley is Head of Umulliko Indigenous Higher Education Centre at the University of Newcastle, NSW. Dennis identifies as Koori, his matrilineal connection is Gai-mariagal of the Guringah language group and his father is a descendant of the Wiradjuri people from the Turon River region on the western highland slopes of NSW. Read more

	Peter Mares presents The National Interest on ABC Radio National (Fridays at 6pm, Sundays at noon). Read more

	Rita Conrad has devoted nearly two decades to public policy in the areas of health policy and planning and, most recently strategic planning, performance measurement and indicators of societal wellbeing. Read more