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Associates & AlliancesThe success Human Capital Alliance has achieved in completing over 150 research consultancy projects has been significantly due to effective collaboration between a core HCA staff team and a select group of highly skilled associate consultants and alliance partnerships with other companies. HCA's collaborators represent the highest level of achievement in diverse areas of government, academic and the private sector, and in wide ranging content areas. HCA's associates and alliance partners fall into two broad categories of content expertise-health and community services and human resources. Within these broad groupings HCA's associate and alliance resources have the following specific areas of expertise: Health & community services
Human resources
HCA's associates and alliance partners amplify and enhance the competence of HCA's core staff resources.
AssociatesJohn Aloizos Medical Practice John is a long time associate of HCA and has provided his general practice expertise to HCA evaluations over the past decade. John holds numerous high level appointments, including membership of the RACGP’s National Expert Committee on Standards for General Practices. John was inaugural Chairman of Australian Divisions of General Practice, former President of Queensland Divisions of General Practice, and inaugural Chairman of Australian General Practice Accreditation Limited where he played a key role in establishing the accreditation system for general practice. In 2003 John became a Member of the Order of Australia for services to medicine, and has had the annually awarded John Aloizos Medal created in his honour by the ADGP. Dr Timothy Chen Pharmacy Practice Tim has been a member of the University of Sydney academic staff since 1993. He has experience as both a clinical hospital pharmacist and a community pharmacist. Tim’s main area of research has focused on the development of professional roles for pharmacists in collaboration with other health care professionals. Tim was awarded Young Pharmacist of the Year Excellence Award by the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia in 2001. Dr Sharon Kendall Nursing Practice Sharon has very broad nursing experience which reflects on-going clinical practice and research and teaching in major acute hospital settings and university institutions. She has been employed at La Trobe University since 1990, currently as a Senior Lecturer. As a Curriculum Consultant, Sharon leads the development of all undergraduate nursing programs currently offered at La Trobe University. Sharon is also actively engaged in health training and education in Indigenous communities in the NT and remote WA. Brett Lennon Pharmacy Practice Brett was employed for 35 years by the Australian Government, including 15 years at Senior Executive Service (SES) level. During his public service career he worked in the Departments of the Treasury, Finance and Administration, and Health and Ageing, as well as the Australian Taxation Office. Prior to his retirement in December 2005, he was employed for 7 years in senior leadership positions in the Department of Health and Ageing. During this time he led the Health Workforce Branch of the Department for 3 years, which has responsibility for Australian Government policies and programs relating to the size, distribution and quality of the health workforces. He also led the Pharmaceutical Benefits Branch of the Department for 4 years which oversights the operation of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. Professor Vivian Lin Public Health/Heath Promotion Professor Vivian Lin is Professor of Public Health at LaTrobe University. She was previously the Executive Officer for the National Public Health Partnership, following 12 years’ experience at senior levels with the NSW, Victorian and Commonwealth health authorities where her policy and program responsibilities included health promotion, aged care, Aboriginal health, ethnic health, women’s health, health insurance, pharmaceuticals, and private hospitals. Meredith McIntyre Nursing Practice Meredith is a senior lecturer in nursing at Monash University, where she is also Co-ordinator of the Bachelor of Midwifery and Master of Clinical Midwifery programs. She is a former President of the Australian College of Midwives in Victoria (2006-2007). She is experienced in curriculum design, senior academic management and the development and implementation of inter-professional education initiatives. Meredith’s research interests include evaluation of competencies of new graduate midwives; sustainable workforce in maternity services; breastfeeding outcomes in the early stages after birth; intellectual disability and maternity care; teen pregnancy/parenting; and issues in postnatal care delivery. Professor Prasuna Reddy Mental Health Services Professor Reddy is Chair of Rural Mental Health and Director Health Services Research with the Greater Green Triangle University Department of Rural Health (GGT UDRH), a partnership between Flinders University and Deakin University. She is a practicing health and organisational psychologist and her areas of expertise are applied psychology in health systems, and professional ethics. Sara Redman Executive Coaching Currently based in Tasmania, Sara has over 10 years experience in the Vocational Education and Training industry in frontline and senior management positions. She provides counselling, life coaching, training and general HR consultancy services. Sara is driven to make a difference for others, with a special interest in motivation, life goal setting as well as the health & wellbeing industry. Alf Standen Training and Assessment Services Alf has been described as one of Australia’s most experienced Vocational Education & Training area practitioners and has been providing that expertise to HCA since the late 1990s. Alf has more than 30 years experience in training program development, needs analysis, skills audits, policy and research and is recognised for his work in competency based and other forms of training, competency assessment, leadership in workplace change, Training Package development and provision of advice on training matters to government and private organisations at the State and national levels. Lloyd Sansom Lloyd has had a long and distinguished career as a teacher, researcher and champion of the pharmacy profession, both internationally and nationally. Lloyd is the current Chair of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, Department of Health and Ageing and has previously chaired APAC, the Australian Pharmacy Examining Council amongst many others. He is currently Professor Emeritus at the School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia Andy Gilbert Professor Andrew Gilbert is currently the Director, Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre at the University of South Australia. He leads a substantial set of research programs within the areas of medicines policy, health service research and health behaviour change. He is an acknowledged leader in these fields at both national and international levels. Professor Gilbert is also Chief Investigator on an ARC/NHMRC Ageing Well Ageing Productively Grant, which involves “the development and evaluation of management strategies designed to address poly-morbidity in older people.” He is the Director of the National Veterans’ Medicines Advice and Therapeutics Education Service (Veterans’ MATES) and has led a number of major projects in aged care, including a project which examined the implementation of the APAC (Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council) guidelines on medication management with residential aged care facilities. Marilyn Wise Marilyn has twenty-five years’ experience in health promotion and public health as a practitioner, service manager, and as a Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion at the University of Sydney. She has been a Technical Advisor in Health Promotion to the World Health Organization, and to AusAID funded projects in several countries. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education and was conferred as a Fellow of the Australian Health Promotion Association for her contributions to the profession. Marilyn’s experience in health promotion practice, research, teaching and consultancy has ranged from designing and managing projects, evaluating large and small-scale projects, conducting intervention research, and contributing in a variety of ways to the development of the public health workforce – from defining competencies to providing workforce development, to conducting research to identify workforce needs, to teaching public health practitioners and researchers at a variety of levels. Over the last decade she has had a significant role in the design and delivery of an Indigenous-specific graduate program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers working in health promotion. Martin Harris Martin has been involved in mental health research since joining the University Department of Rural Health in 1999. He is the Tasmanian representative for the National Community and Expert Forum on suicide prevention, and Board member for Suicide Prevention Australia. Martin’s particular focus has been the role of education and training in suicide prevention. Martin has worked with HCA on developing the Tasmanian Suicide Prevention Strategy, 2010 and online suicide prevention resources in conjunction with OzHelp for Department of Veterans’ Affairs. Graham Martin Graham is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at The University of Queensland and director, Centre for Suicide Prevention Studies in Young People at UQ where the current research focus is self-injury. Professor Graham Martin OAM has been dedicated to suicide prevention since 1987, and a member of IASP since 1997 when Treasurer for the Adelaide IASP Congress. A member of the Advisory Council Australian National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy and Evaluation Working Group (1995-99), writing team for the Australian Suicide Prevention Strategy (2000, 2007), National Advisory Council for Suicide Prevention (2003-8), he has recently been appointed National Advisor on Suicide Prevention to the Australian Government. Graham joined HCA’s team to develop the Tasmanian Suicide Prevention Strategy, 2010.
Alliances
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