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.
AssociatesSerena Abbinga Employee Relations Serena has a long association working with large, medium and small enterprises in pioneering organisational development, employee relations, human resource planning and workplace learning. She has assisted organisations in strategies to implement culture change to facilitate the achievement of organisational objectives including the identification of workforce capabilities, organisational and job redesign, facilitation of Enterprise Agreements reviewing and developing classification structures and the identification of critical skills and training including National and enterprise based competencies. John 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. David Gadiel Health Economics David’s decade long association with HCA has seen the application of his thorough knowledge of the health industry applied to breakthrough research. His specialist health economics background has been developed through years of senior executive roles in major Australian health organisations. 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. Kate Lee Education and training Kate has worked in the Northern Territory on a range of projects in both government and non-government organisations for over 20 years. Kate has undertaken project work in a diverse range of areas in Indigenous communities including: employment, money matters, frontline management, learning & development. 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. Provides counselling, life coaching, training and general HR consultancy services. Driven to make a difference for others, with a special interest in motivation, life goal setting as well as the health & wellbeing industry. Professor Emeritus Lloyd Sansom Pharmacy Practice Prof. Sansom has had a long and distinguished career as a teacher, researcher and champion of the pharmacy profession, both internationally and nationally. Among his many achievements Prof. Sansom was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2002, in recognition of outstanding, distinguished achievement and service of a high degree to Australia and humanity at large. He is currently Chair of the Federal Government’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, a position he has held since 2001. He has been Chair of the Australian Pharmacy Examining Council (APEC) since 1987. The University of South Australia, made him Emeritus Professor at the School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences in 2001 after many years of service. 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. Marilyn Wise Public Health/Health Promotion Marilyn is a long-time associate of HCA, providing public health expertise to a variety of health program evaluation and innovative workforce planning projects since 1991. Marilyn is a senior lecturer in the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney. She has long experience in health promotion practice, research and policy, as well as senior health care system management.
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