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Improving alignment and coordination between the Medical Research Future Fund and Medical Research Endowment Account
3 July 2023 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm AWST
FreeAbout the webinar
Minister for Health and Aged Care, the Hon Mark Butler MP, and Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care, the Hon Ged Kearney MP, are leading a national consultation focused on optimising the government’s funding arrangements for health and medical research.
You are invited to a webinar on 3 July 2023 to learn more about this consultation and how to provide your views on options to improve alignment and coordination between the Medical Research Future Fund and Medical Research Endowment Account.
You will be able to participate in a ‘questions and answers’ session following a presentation on the context for this consultation. In preparation for the webinar, you may wish to read the Ministers’ Discussion Paper, available at the Department of Health and Aged Care’s consultation hub.
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When?
Monday 3 July 2023
What time?
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm AEST
Where?
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Professor Anne Kelso AO
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Following her PhD at the University of Melbourne, Professor Kelso undertook research in immunology at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research. From 2000 until 2006, she was also Director/CEO of the Cooperative Research Centre for Vaccine Technology. She then returned to Melbourne as Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza from 2007 until she took up her role with NHMRC in April 2015. She was appointed Officer in the Order of Australia in June 2007 for service to science.
Professor Kelso is a member of several government and international committees, including the Australian Medical Research Advisory Board (advising the Minister for Health and Aged Care on the strategy and priorities for the Medical Research Future Fund), the Board of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases and the Board of Trustees of the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization.
Mr Blair Exell
Deputy Secretary for Health Strategy, First Nations Health and Sport in the Department of Health and Aged Care
Mr Exell has been a senior leader in foreign affairs, indigenous and development agendas in Australia and across the Asia Pacific region for almost 30 years.
Prior to his role in the department, Mr Exell was the Deputy CEO of the National Indigenous Australians Agency responsible for operations and delivery. This followed 25 years in the foreign affairs and international development arena working across the Asia-Pacific region. He began his career in non-government organisations in Cambodia and Vietnam and later moved across to the Australian Public Service where Mr Exell has now held senior roles for AusAID, DFAT, PMC, NIAA and DOHAC.
Mr Exell was Australia’s most senior aid representative while posted to Cambodia, Solomon Islands and Indonesia. He was the inaugural Australian Ambassador for Regional Health Security (2017-2018) and served as Australia’s Board member to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (2017-2018).