Keynotes

Professor Doune Macdonald is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) and Director of the UQ Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITaLI). In these roles she is responsible for achieving teaching and learning objectives, including innovation, development and recognition of excellent teaching, curriculum reform and renewal, and research in teaching and learning that centres on improving student learning outcomes.

Doune’s background is in health and physical education (HPE) and physical activity and young people. She has published 14 books and more than 200 book chapters and research papers in curriculum, policy, and equity funded predominantly through the NHMRC, the ARC, and state and national curriculum and sport organisations. Her 30 years at the forefront of HPE policy and practice has included her role as the Lead Writer for the Australian Curriculum: HPE alongside research aiming to understand shifts in schooling and tertiary sectors through the lens of curriculum-as-policy and practice, professional socialisation, power, global neoliberalization, and identity construction.

She also sits on the Board of the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority and the National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research Advisory Group.

Rob Moodie is Professor of Public Health at the University of Melbourne. Trained as a medical doctor he worked for Save the Children International and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in refugee health in the Sudan, then for Congress in Central Australia. He worked for many years on HIV prevention for the Burnet Institute, World Health Organization and UNAIDS. He was CEO of Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) from 1998-2007 and from 2008-2011 he chaired the Australian Preventative Health Taskforce which brought in the world first tobacco pack plain packaging. In 2015-2017 he coordinated the MPH program in the Malawi College of Medicine. He has been teaching leadership and management skills that are essential to medicine and public health for 15 years, having facilitated over 70 leadership skills workshops (>25 in Malawi) in many countries. His policy research focusses on minimising the massive harm that tobacco, ultra-processed food, alcohol and fossil fuel corporations inflict on our health. He led the recent The Lancet series on the Commercial Determinants of Health.

Expert Panel

Our Day 2 Panel will explore how we measure the impact of our partnerships with our key stakeholders: students, community and the workforce. 

The Panel is moderated by CAPHIA Intern, Tess Conaghan.

Dr Andrew Goodman is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Australian eHealth Research Centre, CSIRO. Andrew’s research seeks to explore novel approaches and/or solutions to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ health and wellbeing using eHealth. His PhD (The University of Queensland, 2023) focussed on the co-design of a mobile health platform specifically tailored for the clinical management of CVD risk factors, in partnership with two ATSICCHOs in Far North QLD.

Professor Lauren Ball is a Professor of Community Health and Wellbeing at The University of Queensland. Through partnership with the creators of Australia’s largest master-planned urban environments, Lauren and her team create new knowledge, translate it into real world settings with partners and collaborators, and evaluate improvements for people, health care providers and funders. Lauren is also a public health strategist, Board member and people leader.

More speakers announced soon – watch this space!