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Reforming the Australian Health System - Implications for Victoria |
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Reforming the Australian Health System - Implications for Victoria
5 March 2009 |
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Dr. Sharon Willcox,
National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission |
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Dr Sharon Willcox is a Commissioner on the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission. She is the Director of Health Policy Solutions, an independent health consulting company. She has over 25 years experience working in health policy in government and the community sector.
Her government experience in the Victorian, New South Wales and Commonwealth health departments has included a leading role in the negotiations of the 1998-2003 and 2003-2008 Australian Health Care Agreements for funding public hospitals, improving public reporting on health system performance, and reforming the interface of acute and aged care services.
Dr Willcox was involved in the policy development for the National Health Strategy in the early 1990s on issues including new funding models for general practice. She also has a background in prevention and consumer advocacy through her work with the Cancer Council Victoria and the Health Issues Centre.
Dr Willcox has also worked in the United States on health policy and financing issues, as a Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy in 1999-2000 and as a visiting scholar at the Center for Health Program Studies at Harvard University in 1992-1993. Her Doctor of Public Health thesis examined the effectiveness of Australian private health insurance regulation. |
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