National Healthcare Reform Conference

30th November - December 2nd 2009, Rydges, Canberra

Hear from the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission about the impending national healthcare reforms. Many expert speakers including CPD Fellow Ian McAuley. CPD Subscribers receive 15% discount. For more information and to register for this event click here.

Evidence Based Policy Making 2009 will flesh out the key elements that underpin this method of policy making from the research to the policy design stage.

Register online before 14th August and save up to $519.90

You will take away Expert analysis on the theoretical and practical implications of an evidencebased approach from a whole of government and departmental perspective

Case studies on the importance of establishing cultural environments that facilitate this process

Methods for developing more efficient partnerships between researchers and policy makers

The expertise needed to contribute towards innovative and effective policy.

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Pre Conference Workshop A - How to improve the interface between research and policy design. Led by Professor Brian Head, Uni of QLD. More about this workshop

Post Conference Workshop B - How to reconcile conflicting evidence. Led by Richard Denniss Exec Director TAI. More about this workshop

3 Easy ways to Register

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Tel: 1300316 882

Fax 1300918 334

A new government, a volatile economy and an ageing population has changed the dynamic of the Australian Public Sector. The global financial crisis has increased pressure on the public service to do more with less and with a significant proportion of the APS expected to retire within the next 10 years, the urgency for effective workforce planning has never been greater!

As a member of the Centre for Policy Development you are entitled to a 10% discount off the standard price. Please quote CPDWFP10 when registering to receive your discount. 21st - 22nd September 2009
Marque Hotel
Canberra

How can State and Federal governments work together more effectively to improve the services they deliver?

Register for the Intergovernmental Relations conference, July 21 - July 22, 2009 Canberra and hear from public sector practitioners from national, state and local governments, peak bodies and academics on cooperative federalism.

Centre for Policy Development Executive Director Miriam Lyons spoke at the Public Policy Development and Evaluation Forum in Canberra (ACT) on March 24, 2009.

John Menadue will speak on the need for us to go beyond 'tinkering at the edges' and undertake fundamental reform of our health system in Woden on May 12.

John Menadue is keynote speaker at the Australian Health Care Reform Alliance's National Health Reform Summit in Canberra at the end of July 2007.