Email: brooksp@unimelb.edu.au

Tel: (03) 8344-47870

PA: ymurray@unimelb.edu.au

Tel: (03) 90355478

 

MBBS Monash, FRACP, FAFRM, FAFPHM, FRCP(Edin),
MD Hon.Causa (Lund)

 

Professor Brooks graduated from Monash University in 1967, returned to Tasmania for post-medical training then went to Scotland in 1972 as a researcher at the University of Glasgow. 

He returned to Hobart in 1976 to lecture in medicine before moving to Flinders University in 1978 as senior lecturer in medicine. In 1982 he became Foundation Professor of Rheumatology, Sydney University, based at Royal North Shore Hospital. In 1991 he moved to St Vincent's Hospital as Professor of Medicine and Head of the Medical Professorial Unit, a post he held until he joined the University of Queensland in 1998. He is currently Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Queensland.

Professor Brooks has a long-standing interest in the future health workforce and while at the University of Queensland has overseen the development of interprofessional learning as a faculty-wide initiative, a new School of Nursing with nurse practitioner and midwifery streams and the development of physician assistant programs.

Professor Brooks has been a strong advocate for exploring in an evidence-based fashion new models of health care and developing an approach to health care funding which provides better incentives for health promotion and disease prevention and an emphasis upon reducing long-term 'load' on the acute health system.

Recent publications on health workforce issues include:

 

Her broad base leadership skills has seen her in roles such as the CEO at the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists for several years until taking up her position with AHWI in Queensland. In addition she has been General Manager, in Regional Development at Industry New Zealand in Wellington which attest to her diverse capabilities and extensive leadership roles. 

Dr. Brendan Moloney

 

BA (Hons), M.Ed, PhD, PDM (in progress)

 

Brendan is senior project manager/Institute manager. He oversees the day to day operations of the Institute including finance and legals, organises AHWI's national conferences and workshops, and contributes to academic research on health workforce. He holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne.He has contributed to several AHWI reports, including those on Health Career Pathways and the Nursing Workforce and  AHWI's application for the National Health Workforce Taskforce (NHWT) and has recently completed with Prof. Peter Brooks, Ms. Paula Collins, and Mr. Gary Eves a CRC bid for 2010 on Future Health Workforce. 

 

NHMRC Postdoctoral Training Fellowship

BSc (Hons), GradDipMHS, PhD

 

Dr Naccarella is a Senior Research Fellow and a leading primary health care services researcher and evaluator. His experience includes providing national leadership and input at policy level; reviewing evidence of the role of general practice in population health and primary health care integration initiatives for the Commonwealth General Practice Branch; evaluating initiatives aimed at improving working relationships, such as the Enhanced Primary Care support; and topic specific interventions, including: the Active Script Program; and the Better Outcomes in Mental Health Program; and conducting systematic literature reviews on models for comprehensive primary health care delivery, and the place of generalism in the 2020 primary care team. In 2007 he was guest editor for the Australian Journal of Primary Health on a special issue on Comparative Approaches to Primary Health Care: Key lessons for Australia’s primary health care policy-making. Dr Naccarella also contributes as a Policy Analyst to research for General Practice Victoria.

Research interests include:

 

BSc (Hons), PGCert, PhD

 

Louise's multi-disciplinary background has developed from her studies in Psychology, Education and Allied Health Sciences. After completing a degree in Psychology and Post Graduate Certificate in Social Science, she went on to conduct her PhD research exploring inter-professional working among practitioners from Health and Education services working together in school settings in the UK. Her PhD findings led to the development of a unique theoretical framework depicting inter-professional working which is transferable to a range of professional groups and contexts.

 

Louise's current research interests are related to inter-professional working in Health services and training and professional development and career pathways of these groups of professionals. She has worked in a number of further and higher educational institutions in the UK and now at the University of Melbourne. She has also worked in a range of early years school settings.     

 

BA, BPPM (Hons), MPH (in progress)

 

Georgia has recently completed a Bachelor of Arts/ Bachelor of Public Policy and Management (Honours) and is commencing a Masters of Public Health at Monash University in 2009. Her thesis focussed on the General Practice setting and the interprofessional relationships that exist within it. Georgia has previously worked with the Australian Practice Nurses Association, assisting with policy development. 

 

 

PhD Students