1 School of Public Health Future Plans

2 This talk Outline the Process for building future plans Subsequent seminars will outline issues relating to quality, goals, targets and outcomes

3 The School, it’s centres and affiliates Broken Hill – Department of Rural Health Orange – Clinical School Lismore - Northern Rivers Dept Uni Rural Health Moree – Australian Centre for Agricultural Health and Safety Sydney – see next map Moree

4 Usyd/Camperdown Precinct  School of Public Health  GI  STEP  SHDG  ACHP  CTC  CPAH  Cancer Genes, Environment and Behaviour Project  COO  Centre for Perinatal Health Services Research  Sydney Health Projects Groups  Menzies Centre for Health Policy Westmead  FMRC  Centre for Health Services Research  NCIRS  ACCIDD  CRASH City GI Lidcombe  NCHH  Health Sciences Wolloomooloo Cancer Council NSW

5 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

6 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

7 Photo Board Reorganise along teaching program/discipline lines with academic leaders Recognise and engage groups

8 Making it work Harness intellectual firepower locally Greater emphasis on teaching and research program leadership Attract more higher degree students Raise international profile

9 Key steps Practical steps needed to get the School of Public Health fighting fit Address the wider issue of Public Health governance

10 Bringing 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

11 Key Issues Communication Management Title holders Accountability and quality assurance Working environment Capacity building, renewal Growth

12 Communication - 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

13 Management Pub MAC (Public Health Management Advisory Committee) Advisory committee to HoS Oversees policy and planning

14 Members of PubMAC PH EpiHealth Prom ResearchClin EpiMedicine International PH Health Policy Health Prom & Indigenous Health Teaching & Learning Public Health Chair Biostats & IT

15 Research, teaching, staff & IT Research Committee Teaching and Learning Committee General staff council (rotating chair) Information Technology

16 Sue Quine – Postgraduate co-ordinator Petra Macaskill – Examiner’s committee Alex Barratt – Community Glenn Salkeld – Alumni, fundraising, scholarships Other key leadership roles

17 Managing - up Weekly meeting with the Pro Dean of Medicine MedMAC Open lines of communication

18 Academic 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

19 Accountability 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

20 Guiding principles 1:5:40 Highly competitive SPH with strong international profile Aim for financial independence by 2010

21 Guiding Principles Fairness and opportunity 40% Research 40% Teaching 20% Service Teaching Program leaders Measure, manage and mentor

22 Guiding Principles Transparency and accountability Provide individual members of academic staff and program leaders with information to manage work, workloads, teaching and research productivity

23 Major reviews MPH PHERP – competency framework USyd – major review of Masters coursework programs GDip Indig HP

24 Collegiality Mentorship Social get togethers

25 Division of labour Increase administrative staff support for academics Free up academic staff to concentrate on core activities of research and teaching

26 Ideas and innovation Encourage initiative through financial support Incentives to work across boundaries

27 Working 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

28 Working environment Common space More space for higher degree students Long term goal - new Medical Education building - SPH commitment to capital development

29 Capacity 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

30 Appoint 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

31 Capacity 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-ordination greater load to admin/teaching assistants

32 Governance 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

33 Governance of Public Health Network governance Examples……. Health Economics Collaboration Sydney Health Decision Group Menzies NHMRC Capacity building in kidney disease Rural health collaboration partnership with VELIM – Qual research methods

34 Governance 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

35 Governance of Public Health Invitation to all centres and affiliates Join us adjunct appointments new networks/collaborations

36 Summary Getting the SPH ‘fighting fit’ Public Health Governance - bringing people together Next seminar – quality, goals, targets and outcomes