Future Health

In our first episode of Series 3 we meet Dr Fatima Cody Stanford. She is an award-winning obesity medicine physician scientist, educator and policy maker at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Fatima showcases her expertise in obesity and nutrition, discussing the potential impact of our new future ways of working on our health. She will also discuss another important to...

In the final episode for Series 2 we meet Susan Pearce, the Deputy Secretary of the Patient Experience and System Performance Division. Since March 2020 Susan has taken a role within the state’s COVID response as the State Health Emergency Operations Centre Controller. In this episode, Susan explains operational delivery in a crisis and how we make sure to bring a humanised lens to healthcare deli...

In our seventh episode we are introduced to Arif Jetha, a Scientist at the Institute for Work and Health, and an assistant professor at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana University Toronto. In this episode Arif discusses the intersections between the work environment and health and how the future of work will affect those living with disabilities.

For our sixth episode we meet Dr. Nik Dawson, a Labour Economist and Data Scientist specialising in labour economics and the 'future of work'. Nik currently works with Faethm AI as a Senior Research Associate and completed his PHD in Computational Economics from UTS. Nik explains what computational economics actually is and how the way we use data will influence the future of work.

In our fifth episode we are introduced to Dr Simon Kos, a Health Industry Executive at Microsoft and Medical Advisor for Next Practice. Simon was previously the Chief Medical Officer for Microsoft Health and started his career as a Medical Officer in NSW Health. In this episode Simon touches on digital transformation (you can hear more from Simon on that here ), how the cloud can be used for healt...

On the fourth episode we meet Dr. Karen Eggleston, a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the Director of the Stanford Asia Health Policy Program. Karen and her colleagues from the University of Tokyo and Stanford University have been conducting research on robots and labour in the service sector in Japan and recently published this paper . In this episode K...

Our third episode introduces Cynthia Mahoney, a facilitator, coach, mentor, speaker and author with a passion for personal disruption, positive psychology, high-performance and wellbeing. In this episode Cynthia discuss how teams and leaders can help to cultivate high performing environments and what we can take from the pandemic into the future to support the future of leadership.

In our second episode we meet Dr. Rob Grenfell, the Director of the Health and Biosecurity Business Unit at CSIRO. Rob’s unit released the ‘Future of Work’ report and this episode Rob discusses the challenges we currently face and how we enable a shift from illness treatment to health and wellbeing management.

In our first episode we meet Dr. Celso Cardona, Principal Dentist at Maven Dental Inner West Sydney. With a father and brother who are both dentists, Celso has been in touch with dentistry since childhood and has over 12 years’ experience in all forms of general dentistry, with an interest in cosmetic dentistry and expertise in root canal. Celso discusses how he sees the future of Dentistry being...

We are back with Series 2 of the Future Health Podcast.  A look into the way we work, the work we do and how technology will influence the future of work in NSW Health and the healthcare industry.    We have an incredible line up of guests this series and we’re looking forward to sharing their discussions with you each Tuesday starting 1st June 2021.     #FutureHealth...

Dr McLennan is an anthropology researcher at 3ai (part of the Australian National University) tasked with guiding and accelerating a new branch of engineering centred on cyber-physical systems and artificial intelligence. Hear Dr McLennan discuss her work from around the world and her vision of a safe, sustainable and responsible future with explicit values at the core. Learn about a new type of h...

Jacqui is the Director of Allied Health at Western Sydney Local Health District. With more than 946,000 residents and projections that this will be over 1.3m by 2031 learn about how Jacqui and her team of professionals are using technology to better meet the needs of our communities, but especially some of our vulnerable and disadvantaged consumers. Hear how enthusiastic Jacqui is about driving po...

Have you ever wondered about how NSW Health delivers meals, linen, security, cleaning, patient transport, patient aids and a myriad of other services to hundreds of thousands of patients and their  families 24/7, 365 days a year? Meet Garth Worboys who unlocks these mysteries for us and thinks about how technology is an enabler for these services and why this matters to patients and the healt...

Lachlan discusses his role at eHealth and explores some of the adaptive ways that NSW Health’s workforce is embracing new technology. Lachlan explains that technology supporting clinicians is vital for better patient care, but so too are the humanistic skills about how clinicians continue to incorporate technology into their practice. The importance of the empathic ‘human touch’ is explored as Lac...

Mick shares his career story and helps take the audience on a journey about the types of roles that NSW Health workforce will need now and  in the future. Hear Mick’s account of the sepsis prevention project and how technology is helping to make faster diagnoses and prevent sepsis in patients which may be a more important issue than we realise. Hear Mick explain why.

Meet Mark Simpson, eHealth NSW’s very first Clinical Chief Information Officer. Learn about the work of Dr Simpson and his team and hear about why the ‘clinical voice’ is important to think about when rolling out technological products to help clinicians deliver better patient care.

Dr Lisa Dive has a deep research and academic career as a bioethicist. In Episode 2 we learned about some of the potential that genomics and individual precision medicine can offer consumers. Dr  Dive joins us to answer the big and complex moral and ethical questions around this rapidly evolving field and address the question of ‘ Just because we could, does this mean we should ’. For more in...

In this episode we dive into the world of genomics with two leading experts in the field Dr Alan Ma and Professor Ian Alexander. Both give their reflections of how practice has changed in this space  and some of the opportunities for patients in the future. The Future Health Podcast is a creation of NSW Health. For more info on NSW Health visit: health.nsw.gov.au You can also watch the podcas...

In our first episode we meet Bianca Jordaan, Chief Information Officer at SDS Pathology. Bianca has an extensive career history working with technology in healthcare including change manager roles for MyHealth Record and e-Medical Record products. Bianca explains the importance of technology being an enabler for better care in the health industry and some of the considerations faced about designin...

Future Health is a podcast about the way we work the work we do and how technology will influence the future of NSW Health.  In each episode of the series Dr Amith Shetty is joined by professionals throughout the health industry as they explore the developments in research and technology and the impact it is having on the healthcare industry.  Future Health is created as an initiative of...