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Where
MinterEllison
Level 40, Governor Macquarie Tower 1 Farrer Place Sydney NSW 2000
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Speakers
Professor Greg Hunt
Consultant at MinterEllison
As a former Cabinet Minister in the Australian Government, Professor Hunt served as Australia’s Minister for the Environment, Innovation and Health over almost nine years. As Minister for Health from 2017 to 2022, he oversaw Australia’s response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, established telehealth as a permanent and universal centrepiece of Medicare, reformed private health and established long-term plans for mental health, aged care, medical research and primary care and listed over 2,000 new and amended medicines for public access. He oversaw an annual budget of $132 billion, 17 portfolio agencies and 7,000 staff.
Following his retirement from Parliament, Greg has been appointed Honorary Enterprise Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Services and the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. Greg is also the inaugural Chair of the Advisory Council for the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University. He advises businesses and not for profits in the areas of innovation, leadership, strategic planning, health and the environment.
Bruce Robinson has held several leading positions in health care in Australia. He was previously Dean of Medicine at Sydney Medical School for ten years and has also served as Chair of the NH&MRC and the MBS Review Taskforce. He is currently a practising Clinician and Chair of Research at Northern Sydney LHD and also on the Boards of Cochlear, Mayne Pharma, EcoFibre and QBiotics.
He leads a group undertaking scientific and commercial review of Australian BioTech start-ups seeking to commercialise. He is also a consultant for MinterEllison and McKinsey.