PhD Completion Seminar - Sian Slade

Title: The Mechanisms Enabling Patients to Navigate Health Care - A Comparison of Australia and Wales

Zoom link: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/qbn2

Location: Seminar Room 410, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton

Bio: Siân Slade, BSc (Hons) Pharm, MPH, MBA, GAICD. Siân is an Enterprise Fellow (Honorary) and PhD Candidate at the Nossal Institute for Global Health. Siân trained clinically as a pharmacist in the UK with has 20+ years in national, regional and global roles. Siân has a Master of Public Health an Executive Master of Business Administration and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Siân is Chair at The Bridge Inc, Chair at LiverWELL and a non-executive director at the Leukaemia Foundation.

Abstract: Health care systems are complex and challenging for patients to navigate. This qualitative research examines the mechanisms, defined as people, process and technologies, that enable patients to navigate health care. The research, developed through case studies in Victoria, Australia and Wales, United Kingdom, explored experiences of actors from across the micro, meso and macro levels to understand the connectivity between patients and systems. The seminar will discuss the practical and policy approaches that the countries can learn from one another.