Talking Health Professor Debra Anderson

Professor Michele Rumsey has dedicated her career to improving population health across the Pacific region. In this episode of Talking Health, Professor Debra Anderson explores how Michele and her team at the the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Centre for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Development at UTS are collaborating with partners to strengthen healthcare capacity and further develop the leadership potential of health workers across the region to ensure Pacific Island Countries can address the healthcare needs of their peoples, now and into the future.

From attending one of the most prestigious art colleges in the United Kingdom, to now leading a team of health researchers at UTS, Professor Angela Dawson brings colour, flair and a different perspective to her role as Associate Dean of Research at the Faculty of Health at UTS.  
In this episode, Professor Debra Anderson explores the connection between visual arts and health promotion and uncovers Professor Dawson’s interesting journey from artist to influential health researcher, who has made a remarkable impact on improving the health and wellbeing of priority populations in Australia and low and lower-middle-income countries across the globe.  

How do we measure the health and wellbeing of communities? In this episode, Professor Debra Anderson explores the world of health economics with Professor Rosalie Viney, the Director of the UTS Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation – CHERE.
Professor Viney talks about why it’s important to understand what matters most to people when we’re designing health services and policies and why improving social and physical wellbeing isn’t necessarily just about addressing ‘health’ outcomes.

Ever wondered where a career in nursing could lead you?
In this episode, Associate Professor Lynn Sinclair, the Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning at the Faculty of Health at UTS, shares how her journey as a clinician in intensive care, mental health, midwifery and neonatal nursing has led to designing digital technologies to enhance remote and online learning.
Join us for this interesting discussion with our host, Professor Debra Anderson.

In this episode, Professor Debra Anderson is joined by the inaugural Director of the UTS Research Institute for Innovative Solutions for Wellbeing and Health (INSIGHT), Professor Susan Morton.  
Susan is an internationally-recognised life course health researcher and public health clinician who says that we need to take a multidimensional approach to solving complex health issues and look at the range of factors affecting health and wellbeing – from the connections families have with communities, the way they access services, through to the way we design our services and our environments and so many other factors affecting health and wellbeing. 

In this episode, Professor Debra Anderson speaks with Professor Megan Williams, a Wiradjuri woman, and the Associate Dean Indigenous at the University of Technology Sydney.  
Megan has worked for more than two decades advocating for the use of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s expertise in health service design and evaluation, research, ethics and university curriculum, especially to improve access to health care for people in prison and to prevent incarceration.
Megan tells us how her history teacher in high-school influenced her career and life’s mission and why education is a way we can start to proactively change the possibilities of what the future health workforce might be able to achieve.