AHWI - Head Office
Interim Director
Professor Peter Brooks
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:
- 'Health Workforce Innovation Conference Report' (with N. Ellis) in The Medical Journal of Australia, 2005; 184:3, 105-106.
- 'The health workforce of the future - partnerships in health care' in The Australian Health Consumer 2, 2005-2006.
- 'Health workforce reform - can we achieve it?' in New Matilda e-publications, 14 December 2005.
- 'More bang for each health care buck' in New Matilda e-publications, 8 February 2006.
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Lucio Naccarella
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 is currently the Inaugural Research Fellow at AHWI at a 0.5 EFT fraction and the Policy Analyst for General Practice Victoria at a 0.5 EFT fraction.
Research interests include:
- Strengthening a generalist primary care workforce
- System change within the general practice setting,
- Optimising models of multidisciplinary primary care delivery
- Facilitating evidence-based primary care policy and practice change
Project Manager
Brendan Moloney
Brendan Moloney is senior project manager for the Australian Health Workforce Institute. He has a strong background in Australian Higher Education Policy and Curriculum Development and Training. His primary training is as an historian. He has recently written a PhD dissertation related to the role of Australian education providers in Asia under the supervision of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne.
