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School of Public HealthSchool of Public Health

Future Plans

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This talkThis talk• Outline the Process for building future plans

• Subsequent seminars will outline issues relating to quality, goals, targets and outcomes

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The School, it’s centres and affiliatesThe School, it’s centres and affiliatesBroken Hill – Department of Rural Health

Orange – Clinical School

Lismore - Northern Rivers Dept Uni Rural Health

Moree – Australian Centre forAgricultural Health and Safety

Sydney – see next map

Moree

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Usyd/Camperdown PrecinctSchool of Public HealthGISTEPSHDGACHPCTCCPAHCancer Genes, Environment and Behaviour ProjectCOOCentre for Perinatal Health Services ResearchSydney Health Projects GroupsMenzies Centre for Health Policy

WestmeadFMRCCentre for Health Services ResearchNCIRSACCIDDCRASH

CityGI

LidcombeNCHHHealth Sciences

WolloomoolooCancer Council NSW

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What is the School? What is the School? • What signal do we want to send?• High quality, high impact • International reputation• More than just a collection of individuals, institutes, centres and

title holders

• Bring people together based on our common interests in population health teaching and research

• To create an outward looking School that engages with those people and institutions that can help us improve public health

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Current signals?Current signals?

•Photo board in the Edward Ford Building

•More a function of cost codes and title holders

•Students and visitors want to see our academic leaders

•Get a sense of our teaching and research programs and who belongs to those programs

•Students like role models, they seek opportunities for specialisation in their studies and their own career

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Photo BoardPhoto Board• Reorganise along teaching program/discipline lines

with academic leaders

• Recognise and engage groups

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Making it workMaking it work• Harness intellectual firepower locally

• Greater emphasis on teaching and research program leadership

• Attract more higher degree students

• Raise international profile

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Key stepsKey steps• Practical steps needed to get the School of Public

Health fighting fit

• Address the wider issue of Public Health governance

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Bringing it altogetherBringing it altogether

• Strong emphasis on open communication consultation and people management

• Core values – high quality, high quality, high impact research and teaching

• Crossing institutional and sectoral boundaries

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Key IssuesKey Issues

• Communication

• Management

• Title holders

• Accountability and quality assurance

• Working environment

• Capacity building, renewal

• Growth

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Communication - HoS OfficeCommunication - HoS Office

• HoS (Room 319)

• Personal assistant – Nafisa Alam

• Executive officer (acting)- Susan Martinez

• Communications officer – Erika Anza-Mosman (Part time)

• Centralise communications – including SPH web site, newsletter, media relations

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ManagementManagement• Pub MAC (Public Health Management Advisory

Committee)

• Advisory committee to HoS

• Oversees policy and planning

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Members of PubMACMembers of PubMAC

PH Epi Health Prom

Research Clin Epi Medicine International PH

Health Policy Health Prom & Indigenous Health

Teaching & Learning

Public Health

Chair

Biostats

& IT

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Research, teaching, staff & ITResearch, teaching, staff & IT• Research Committee

• Teaching and Learning Committee

• General staff council (rotating chair)

• Information Technology

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• Sue Quine – Postgraduate co-ordinator

• Petra Macaskill – Examiner’s committee

• Alex Barratt – Community

• Glenn Salkeld – Alumni, fundraising, scholarships

Other key leadership rolesOther key leadership roles

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Managing - upManaging - up

• Weekly meeting with the Pro Dean of Medicine

• MedMAC

• Open lines of communication

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Academic titlesAcademic titles

• Some title holders contribute an enormous amount to our teaching and research

• Others contribute little or none• If we don’t ask then we cannot expect much in

return• Make expectations clear• Quantify the minimum contribution• Acknowledge the importance of the contribution

made by title holders

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Accountability and Quality AssuranceAccountability and Quality Assurance

• Produce a summary document

How are we performing?

Existing mechanisms for accountability

• Establish Advisory Groups

SWOT - strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats

Ideas, innovation, solutions

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Guiding principlesGuiding principles• 1:5:40

• Highly competitive SPH with strong international profile

• Aim for financial independence by 2010

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Guiding PrinciplesGuiding Principles• Fairness and opportunity

• 40% Research• 40% Teaching• 20% Service

• Teaching Program leadersMeasure, manage and mentor

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Guiding PrinciplesGuiding Principles

• Transparency and accountability

• Provide individual members of academic staff and program leaders with information to manage work, workloads, teaching and research productivity

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Major reviewsMajor reviews

• MPHPHERP – competency frameworkUSyd – major review of Masters

coursework programs

• GDip Indig HP

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CollegialityCollegiality

• Mentorship

• Social get togethers

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Division of labourDivision of labour

• Increase administrative staff support for academics

• Free up academic staff to concentrate on core activities of research and teaching

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Ideas and innovationIdeas and innovation

• Encourage initiative through financial support

• Incentives to work across boundaries

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Working environmentWorking environment• Edward Ford building – inadequate for future needs

• Short Term – MFB Public Health Precinct

• Continue refurbishment of offices in A27

• Better utilisation of desk/office space

• Library – stays in the Edward Ford building

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Working environmentWorking environment• Common space

• More space for higher degree students

• Long term goal

- new Medical Education building

- SPH commitment to capital development

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Capacity building, renewalCapacity building, renewal• Renewal

– New A/Prof in Health Promotion (Disease prevention)

• New Senior Lecturer in Qualitative Research Methods*

(funded 0.5 SPH, 0.25 VELIM and 0.25 MedFAC)

• New Chair in International Child and Maternal Health(funded 100% MedFAC, Joint appointment with GI)

* Fixed 3 year appointment

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Appoint new generation of lecturersAppoint new generation of lecturers

• 2008 budget due late October• Key appointments for 2008

• Lecturer in Indigenous Health (1.0 FTE)*

• Lecturer in International Public Health (1.0 FTE)*

• Senior lecturer in Clinical Epidemiology (0.5 FTE)*

* Fixed appointment

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Capacity building, renewalCapacity building, renewal• Increase administrative staff

• New admin assistant (1.0 FTE level 4)

• Subject to workload, enrolment data & final 2008 budget• New admin assistant for IPH• Education support officer (P/T) for the Director of T&L

• Teaching Course Co-ordinationgreater load to admin/teaching assistants

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Governance of Public HealthGovernance of Public Health

• Aim – USyd PH to reach true potential, internationally, by harnessing intellectual firepower across the organisation and sectoral boundaries

• To ensure that the whole is greater than the sum of parts

• HOW? Review

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Governance of Public HealthGovernance of Public Health• Network governance

• Examples…….Health Economics CollaborationSydney Health Decision GroupMenziesNHMRC Capacity building in kidney diseaseRural health collaborationpartnership with VELIM – Qual research

methods

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Governance of Public HealthGovernance of Public Health• IPH - teaching steering committees

• Steering committee to oversee IPH teaching• Draw in academic teachers from GI and other

groups

• IPH – PH capacity building and training• Steering committee, chaired by Lalit Dandona, to

oversee India Medical research Council, SPH and GI MOU

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Governance of Public HealthGovernance of Public Health

• Invitation to all centres and affiliates

• Join us

adjunct appointments

new networks/collaborations

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SummarySummary

• Getting the SPH ‘fighting fit’

• Public Health Governance

- bringing people together

• Next seminar – quality, goals, targets and outcomes