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.