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Program Organising Committee
Dr Tim Senior
Dr Tim Senior works as a General Practitioner at the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service in South West Sydney, and is a clinical senior lecturer at Western Sydney University.
He is the Medical Advisor of the RACGP Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and founded the Environmental Impacts in General Practice network in the RACGP NFSI.
He writes on General Practice, the social causes of ill health and successfully crowdfunded Wonky Health, a column on the Croakey health website, on the health effects of policy decisions.
He won the Gavin Mooney memorial essay prize for an article on the language used in climate change campaigning.
Dr Tracey-Lea Laba
Associate Professor Tracey-Lea Laba, is a health systems researcher and NHMRC Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, UTS Business School Sydney.
She has expertise in health economics, drug utilisation and policy research. Her research broadly focuses on value and equity in access to medicines. She is the first person to sit on both the Drug Utilisation and the Economics sub-committees to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee. As a registered pharmacist, she also trained in hospital and community pharmacy as well as pharmaceutical industry.
Dr Laba is passionate about improving health and wellness. Her ambition is to shape the way Australians with chronic diseases, such as asthma, can more readily and equitably access high-value, affordable healthcare that will help them live the best life they can.
Helen Murray
As a mature woman I developed asthma. So became a very satisfied user of the services provided by the Asthma Foundation in SA, appreciating the advice and education provided by the nurses and the availability of appropriate equipment.
I am a mother of three adult children, and grandmother of five, who has lived in various part of Australia and Great Britain, now living in South Australia.
A retired nurse who during my working life has had the opportunity to develop some understanding of how the Health and community service function at various levels. I have worked as a service provider in public and private sector, in a paediatric practice and in aged care, have served as a committee member, a researcher and an advocate for others. My work has informed me of some of the particular challenges of people living in rural and remote areas.
Volunteering has always been a part of my life, from church, school, sport groups, and now continuing with my involvement with arts festivals and informally with Aboriginal communities in various areas.
I welcome the opportunity to work with other members of the CAC to hear, think, and investigate.
Dr John Blakey
John Blakey is a Respiratory Physician with a subspecialty interest in asthma. He has recently moved to Australia from the UK and brings experience of national and regional quality improvement initiatives relating to respiratory services. John’s research activities relate to measuring and managing an individual’s future risk of asthma attacks.
Professor Anne-Marie Feyer
Professor Anne-Marie Feyer is an expert in health and social care research, practice and policy who has worked across academia, the private sector and in consultancy.
As a senior academic, Anne-Marie successfully established a nationally and internationally recognised centre of excellence in research and its sustainable funding base.
Professor Feyer was a senior partner in a global professional services firm and led the development of a national health advisory business, to become the first global thought leadership Board member based in the Asia-Pacific region.
As a non-executive director, Anne-Marie chairs the Governance and Nominations Committee for a metropolitan Primary Health Network.
Professor John Upham
John Upham is a respiratory physician and clinical researcher who studies the immune system in people with asthma, and is keen to develop new approaches to asthma treatment. He completed medical school and specialist training in Brisbane, before completing a PhD in lung immunology at the University of Western Australia followed by a research fellowship at McMaster University in Canada. John holds appointments with the University of Queensland and runs a severe asthma clinic at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane.
Professor Peter Gibson
Professor Peter Gibson is as a doctor who cares for people with respiratory diseases and is a clinical scientist investigating the mechanisms and treatment of asthma, COPD, cough, and other airway disorders.
He is a concept leader who has developed innovative approaches around inflammatory subtypes of asthma and cough; airway biomarkers; neurogenic mechanisms, laryngeal dysfunction and related treatments for refractory cough; multidimensional assessment and management of complex airway disorders such as severe asthma, airways diseases in the elderly, and asthma in pregnant women.
His peers have awarded Peter several research medals and elected him as the president of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (2015-2016).
His research and clinical practice serve to bring research developments into focus as effective health care interventions that improve the health of people suffering from breathing disorders.
Professor Sharyn Rundle-Thiele
Professor Sharyn Rundle-Thiele is a social marketer and behavioural scientist. She is the Founding Director of Social Marketing @ Griffith, which is the largest university based group of social marketers in the world. She is Founding Co-Editor of the Journal of Social Marketing, one of the worlds’ leading behaviour change journals.
She has led projects that have changed behaviours for 10,000’s of people in areas including health, the environment and for complex social issues. Sharyn has led programs that have increased healthy eating, changed adolescent attitudes to alcohol drinking, reduced food waste, increased dog’s abilities to avoid koalas, and many more.
She has published more than 150 books, book chapters and journal papers. Awards and appointments including The Philip Kotler Social Marketing Distinguished Service Award, Australian New Zealand Marketing Academy Fellow acknowledge her innovative, high-quality practice and science and her leadership.
Stephen Hughes
Stephen is a Sydney-based community pharmacist and Associate Lecturer at the University of Sydney. He has recently submitted his PhD, a qualitative study of self-management and goal setting in long-term conditions. He is a contributor to the Asthma Management Handbook and National Asthma Strategy, and a board director on the National Asthma Council Australia.