WES TE
SYDNEY N R
Community Leaders Forum
LIVE LONGER LIVE BETTER 9.30 – 11 am Monday, October 24, 2022 | Ballroom
The WEXPO Community Leaders Forum is a unique exchange where experts speakers and panellists present on-stage to a hand-picked audience of up to 100 community leaders who complete real-time feedback based on what they see and hear over an hour of moderated presentations and discussion. Their collective feedback is analysed and interpreted in the context of uncovering trends and developing strategies for improvement.
Live Longer Live Better is the first of two CLFs on October 24 at Blacktown Workers Club and will explore one of Western Sydney’s major health issues – DIABETES. This forum will define the nature and size of the problem, explore help options from business and the community, unpack the medical issues and challenges and dive into the cost benefit analysis of prevention.
Session moderator: Dr Jim Taggart OAM
Our Speakers
Prof Glen Maberly Staff Specialist Endocrinologist at Blacktown and Mt Druitt Hospitals and Program Lead for Western Sydney Diabetes, Integrated Care, Western Sydney Local Health District. His career has focused on fostering public-privatecivic partnerships and bring public health evidence-based research findings to large scale implementation. Currently he is the driving force behind the Western Sydney Diabetes Prevention and Management Initiative.
Dr Dorothy Ndwiga Lecturer at the Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, Australian Catholic University. Her research has focused on tackling the burden of diabetes in the Australian Samoan community through promoting healthy lifestyle choices. The lifestyle intervention showed that culturally tailored health promotion strategies and interventions can reduce the burden of diabetes and its associated risk factors.
Dr Sharon Ponniah Partner, Health & Wellbeing, Public Policy & Economics, PwC. Partner in the PwC health practice and a public health and policy specialist, she has worked in the public and private sectors managing research, evaluation and population health programs at State and National level, in Australia and New Zealand. She has held roles with the Ministry of Health New Zealand; worked for large Crown Entities; and for the George Institute for Global Health prior to entering consulting. With a PhD in public health, she is a published academic and continues to review NHMRC grants for public health and policy.
WES TE
SYDNEY N R
Community Leaders Forum
TM
LIVE LONGER LIVE BETTER
BLACKTOWN
Our Panelists Professor Grant Brinkworth Senior Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO – Health and Biosecurity.
Morgan Stewart CEO of the Blacktown Workers Club Group.
Professor Brinkworth is an international research leader exploring diet and lifestyle approaches for obesity and chronic disease management and has published over 100 scientific papers on this topic. He is founder and author of the No .1 best-selling CSIRO Low Carb Diet book series that translates clinical research outcomes into an easy to follow, self-help guide to minimise health risk through better nutrition and lifestyle change.
Morgan is an outcome focused, visionary business leader and is a mentor and trusted advisor to executive teams, and Boards specialising in Strategic & Legacy Planning to align operational, people management, community, and financial outcomes. Morgan contributes to his community through several mentoring and volunteer roles including as a Board Member of the MidCoast Women’s Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service funded by NSW Legal Aid.
Stephen Bali NSW Member for Blacktown & former Mayor of Blacktown City Council..
Bruce McClelland Partnership and Engagement Manager, Business Western Sydney.
Stephen is a lifelong Doonside resident. He is proud of our community and will fight to make it an even better place to work, live and raise a family. Stephen previously served as an elected council member for Blacktown from 2004 and was elected Mayor in 2014.
This is the region’s peak business advocacy organisation representing a regional economic footprint in the tens of billions. Members include the CEOs, chairs and leading executives from more than 110 top global businesses, major Australian corporations, local not-for-profits and government agencies with a significant presence in Western Sydney.
Dr Shanthini Seelan GP, Clinical Director, Bridgeview Medical Practice. Dr Seelan is passionately committed to making a difference and putting Preventive Health care on the map. Her role as the Clinical Director oversees her other main interest and passion which is Chronic Disease Management in which she is currently involved in establishing and managing together with the Bridgeview team, the chronic disease clinics. Dr Seelan is actively involved in Healthy Living Toongabbie, a community based organisation formed to address the diabetes epidemic. Member of the NDSS CALD expert reference group , whose role is to represent as many CALD communities as possible and advice on all CALD DIABETES matters from academic, clinical and research perspectives outside that of Diabetes Australia and its State and Territories.