An update regarding the Australasian Interprofessional Practice and Education Network (AIPPEN) has been provided in the recent ANZAHPE E Bulletin. You can find this on page 17. The update has been provided by A/Prof. Monica Moran and Prof. Jill Thistlethwaite, after a well attended open meeting for people already associated with, or interested in, being part of AIPPEN took place at the recent All Together Better Health (ATBH) IX conference in Auckland in early September.
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Visit by Professor John Gilbert to the University of Technology Sydney
In August 2018, Emeritus Professor John Gilbert, expert and pioneer in interprofessional education, visited the University of Technology Sydney for a series of presentations. Prior to John delivering a keynote address at the ‘All Together Better Health IX’ conference in Auckland, we were privileged to host John at the University of Technology Sydney – one of the many universities where john holds an adjunct position. Continue reading
All Together Better Health IX
September 2018 | Auckland, New Zealand
Pre-Conference workshop facilitated by Associate Professor Roger Dunston, Professor Dawn Forman, Professor Gary Rogers and Tagrid Yassine.
Our preconference workshop, titled ‘Sustaining Interprofessional Education in a Uni – Professional Environment: A Focus on Work Occurring within the Australian Context’, was well attended with around 40 delegates in attendance. The presentation from the workshop can be accessed here.
Seminars at the University of Melbourne
August 2018 | Melbourne, Australia
Presented by Professor Dawn Forman and Keryn Bolte
We recently took to opportunity to deliver two leadership development seminars and two SIF Project seminars to colleagues at the University of Melbourne. These seminars were kindly organised and co presented by Dawn Forman for the SIF Project Management Team and Keryn Bolte from the Department of Rural Health and were presented to around 100 colleagues including researchers and supervisors from the department of rural health, executive and health service colleagues from North East Health plus the cross university Work Integrated Learning Committee of the University of Melbourne. Continue reading
Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Health Educators conference
July 2018 | Hobart, Australia
Symposium presented by Associate Professor Monica Moran, Professor Maree O’Keefe, Professor Gary Rogers, Professor Carole Steketee and Tagrid Yassine.
The SIF Project team presented a symposium at the 2018 ANZHAPE conference in Hobart. The symposium was titled ‘Sustaining interprofessional education in a uni-professional environment’. The presentation can be accessed here.
The conference was a success with over 350 delegates in attendance. There was a strong interprofessional theme throughout the conference program.
We look forward to the next conference in Canberra in 2019. Please visit the ANZHAPE website for more information.
John Gilbert presentation series at UTS
In August 2018, Emeritus Professor John Gilbert, world expert and pioneer in interprofessional education, will visit the University of Technology Sydney for a series of presentations. The event details are below. Registration is essential.
All Together Better Health 2018 | New Zealand
The 9th International Conference on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (ATBH IX) will be held at Auckland University of Auckland (AUT) in September 2018. Click here to access the conference flyer. Please distribute this via your networks.
The SIF Project will be holding a pre conference workshop. Visit the conference website to register and for more information.
SIF in the ANZAHPE Bulletin | June 2018
The latest ANZAHPE Bulletin has been released. Look out for the brief SIF contribution.
SIF Project at ANZAHPE Conference 2018
The SIF Project will be at the 2018 ANZAHPE Conference in Hobart.
We will be presenting a symposium, and will be in our shared project booth with ANZAHPE in the exhibition hall. Click here for more information.
6th Rural & Remote Health Scientific Symposium
Associate Professor Monica Moran, member of the SIF Project Management Team, recently presented at the 6th Rural & Remote Health Scientific Symposium. The event was held in Canberra from the 11 – 12 April. A/Prof. Moran’s presentation titled ‘Building national capability in interprofessional education and practice: learning from Australian research’, is now available to view.
This research symposium was characterised by a small number of streams (three per session) which resulted in strong audience numbers in each session. There was a lot of interest in the SIF Project, with A/Prof. Moran’s session being attended by approx 35 people participants.

Comments from the audience regarding need for further work included:
- the need to include communities (service recipients and service co-designers) in design and delivery of interprofessional models of service particularly in rural/remote communities.
- The gap in our understanding regarding the needs of communities in terms of the best health workforce mix of professions to delivery best practice services – we do not yet have a way of mapping this from an interprofessional perspective
Overall a number of the keynote presentations of the conference presentations used big data to describe health and service delivery trends over the past 20 years particularly for chronic diseases. The new national Rural Health Commissioner Emeritus Professor Paul Worley, who was appointed as Australia’s first National Rural Health Commissioner on 11 November 2017, delivered an opening important address where he started to unpack plans for a national rural health workforce underpinned on principles of rural generalism, cultural safety and place.
These ideas give us much food for thought and opportunities for collaboration in our interprofessional work as rural teams are so often fertile locations for interprofessionalism.