Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 9 December
9:45 - 15:00
This mini-symposium will bring together researchers, policy, and service providers to share research questions, methods, and findings from three main themes in health workforce research.
Themes
Theme 1: Te Kauae Parāoa
Towards a health workforce that reflects the populations it serves
Chair: Professor Peter Crampton
Speakers: Professor Jo Baxter, Professor Tai Sopoaga, Te Kauae Parāoa early career graduate, Associate Professor Meredith Perry
Panel discussion
Theme 2: Skills and Capability
How do we utilise skills, including cultural capability, across the workforce to their greatest potential?
Chair: Dr Miranda Buhler
Speakers: Mr Oka Sanerivi, Dr Martin Chadwick, Dr Jane George, Mr Emmanuel Jo, Mr Chris Higgs
Panel discussion
Theme 3: Geographic accessibility
Understanding workforce distribution, equity, place-based challenges and opportunities
Chair: Dr Gabrielle McDonald
Speakers: Professor Garry Nixon, Mrs Michelle Smith, Dr Miranda Buhler, Dr Jesse Whitehead, place-based health services speaker
Panel discussion
Summary and open discussion
Chair: Professor Peter Crampton
A critical lens will also be brought to the evolving understanding of ‘health care accessibility’. The intent is to advance understanding of health workforce distribution, composition and ability to equitably meet population health needs now and in the future.
This hybrid event will provide a forum for discussion, networking, and growing momentum for this important field of research.
Registration
Register for the Te Tāreitanga: Evolving Understanding of Health Workforce Research mini symposium