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Keynote Speaker

Stan Grant

Stan Grant is the International Affairs Editor for the ABC, a multi-award winning current affairs host, author and adventurer.

Well known for having brought the former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to tears when interviewed about Indigenous affairs on The Point, Stan’s keynotes are insightful, engaging, always professional and at times, controversial.

Stan’s Aboriginal heritage has shaped his dynamic, resilient personality. Born in Griffith NSW, his mother is from the Kamilaroi people and his father is of the Wiradjuri.

Stan has won many major awards including an Australian TV Logie, a Columbia University DuPont Award and the prestigious U.S Peabody Award. He is a four-time winner of the highly prized Asia TV Awards, including reporter of the year.

closes Sunday 20 August

Sophie Scott

Sophie Scott is a multi-award winning journalist and the reporter and presenter of medical and health news for

Speakers

Prof James Buchan

Recover to Rebuild: Investing in the Nursing Workforce for Health System Effectiveness

Prof. James Buchan is a Senior Fellow at the Health Foundation in London UK, an adjunct professor at the UTS, and a visiting professor at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a Trustee of the Florence Nightingale Foundation.

He has thirty years experience of policy research on health sector human resources, specialising in the nursing workforce and in international and national level strategy, policy and planning; pay, incentives and reward strategy; and labour market analysis.

Prof Mary Chiarella AM

Philosophy, persuasion, perfidy, persistence and passion– the politics of primary health care

Mary has served as the Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer, NSW Health Department and as Foundation Professor of Nursing in Corrections Health, with the University of Technology, Sydney. She was awarded an AM in 2019 for her significant contributions to nursing and midwifery education and healthcare standards.

Mary is Deputy Chair of Northern Sydney LHD and chairs their Health Care Quality Committee. She also serves on the Australian Health Ethics Committee of NHMRC, the Health Ethics Advisory Panel to the NSW Minister for Health and the Clinical Governance Advisory Committee to healthdirect Australia. She serves the NSW Nursing and Midwifery Council as a panel and Tribunal member for impairment, performance and conduct matters.

Mary’s research interests focus on legal, policy and ethical issues in nursing, midwifery and health care delivery. She publishes and speaks nationally and internationally on her work. She has undertaken a number of projects for the World Health Organisation and has been a Visiting Scholar to ICN.

ABC news, radio, 730, ABC News Channel and ABC online. Recognised for her ability to clearly communicate complex subject matter, the stories she has developed on patient safety have led to changes in the regulation of cosmetic surgery in Australia.

Saba Akbar

Artificial intelligence in nursing: applications and opportunities.

Saba Akbar is an RN with diverse work experience in areas of surgical nursing, nursing education and patient safety with a PhD from the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University.

Her research focuses on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to enable decision support systems for nursing assessments, which are critical for identifying and managing clinical risks in hospitalised patients. Saba is passionate about using digital health for enhancement of patient safety and benefit of the nursing community.

Dr David Lyell

Dr David Lyell is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University. David is interested in how humans interact with decision support systems such as expert systems and artificial intelligence. His research interests focus on how decision support technologies change human decisionmaking and how that impacts patient safety.

The Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA)

Sustainability in Healthcare

CAHA is Australia’s peak body on climate and health. Since 2010, CAHA has employed effective evidence-based advocacy, a collaborative approach and a willingness to engage professionals, policymakers and media. A panel of speakers will discuss how nurses and midwives can be part of the solution.