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Universities for health: Improving wellbeing for all communities
Guest speakers

Deakin University is delighted to be hosting Prof Judith Ramaley, President of Winona State University, USA as a Fulbright Visiting Senior Specialist, from Friday 17th to Wednesday 29th November 2006. Our national Symposium, Universities for Health: Improving wellbeing for all communities will be the focal point of Prof Ramaley's visit.

Prof Judith Ramaley Prof Ramaley is currently a Member of the Board of Directors for the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE). Professor Ramaley has served as president of the University of Vermont and president of Portland State University. She has also been a Fellow of the Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy at the University of Maine. Previously, she was assistant director for education and human resources at the National Science Foundation. Throughout the four decades of her academic career, Professor Ramaley has published extensively in the areas of community engagement, building academic communities, higher education reform, large scale institutional change and research engagement. We are honoured to host Prof Ramaley, and use her visit and expertise to catalyze discussion and action among a wide range of participants from the government, university, health, student, non-government and other sectors.

Mara Adelman Dr. Adelman conducts research on social support systems, community-building, and cross-cultural communication. She is trained in network analysis and ethnography, Dr. Adelman pursues the relationship between social networks and personal well-being. Dr Adelman serves on the advisory board for a national movement to promote ‘Great Places.’ Her long-term passion is to create a state-of-the-art College for Lifelong Learning. Recently, Dr. Adelman applied her research on community into developing year-long series of ‘salons’ at Seattle University that serve to promote the‘engaged intellectual life’. See http://www.seattleu.edu/academicsalons/

Prof Sally Walker In January 2003, Professor Sally Walker commenced as Vice-Chancellor and President of Deakin University. Prior to that, she was Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Melbourne. Professor Walker holds the degrees of Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne. She graduated with First Class Honours in her Law degree; she was placed first in her graduating class and was awarded the Supreme Court Prize, the Anna Brennan Memorial Prize and the inaugural Joan Rosanove Memorial Prize. Professor Walker has undertaken a broad range of professional activities ranging from accepting invitations to sit on policy-making bodies, such as the Victorian Press Ownership Inquiry, Law Council of Australia committees and the boards of organisations such as the Communications and Media Law Association.

Prof John Catford Professor Catford is Dean of the Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences and Professor of Health Development at Deakin University. The dean is responsible for general faculty administration—conducting academic affairs in accordance with Faculty Board and University policies, advising the Vice-Chancellor and Academic Board on faculty matters and providing leadership on teaching, research and other academic activities. John also ensures effective operational management for staffing, teaching, research, management, administration, budgeting, resource allocation, working conditions and OHS. His role oversees the work of the Head of Schools, coordinating the faculty’s operations with other faculties and maintaining overall faculty discipline. The dean also chairs the Faculty Board.

Prof Ann Taket Professor Taket has more than twenty years experience in public health research, including studies of a variety of issues in policy, education and services planning and evaluation. She has a particular interest in mixed methodologies, bringing together qualitative and quantitative methods around key policy questions. Her current research interests are in domestic abuse and violence prevention and intervention; healthy living initiatives for marginalised communities and groups; non-government organisations in health promotion and public health; action research in health settings; and bringing together different theoretical perspectives to understand better the processes by which groups and individuals come to understand or experience themselves as marginalised, and the factors that shape these processes.

Dr Iain Butterworth Dr Iain Butterworth, of the Deakin University School of Health and Social Development, has a background in community psychology and community development. His research interests include the interrelationships between urban design, health and wellbeing, and enhancing health through urban planning participation. In 2003-2004 he spent several months at the University of California Berkeley, where he was a School of Public Health Fulbright Visiting Scholar. His mentor was Professor Leonard Duhl MD, Professor of Public Health and Urban Planning, whose ideas spawned the 1980s international Healthy Cities movement. Iain co-produced Environments for Health, the Victorian Government’s municipal public health planning policy framework, which drew strongly on the Healthy Cities approach.

Dr Josephine Palermo Dr Palermo, Deakin University Research Fellow at the Centre for Health and Social Development, is a psychologist and researcher with a background in quality management, organisational development and change. In the last decade, her activities include institutional research in tertiary education and health planning. Iain and Josephine met plenary speaker Professor Ramaley at the 2005 ‘engaging communities’ Australian Universities Quality Forum (where Iain and Josephine’s workshop on exploring models of community participation was awarded Best Presentation). In 2005 Iain and Josephine collaborated on a research project investigating ecological public health principles in Sydney and Melbourne’s Urban Planning Frameworks. They are currently part of the investigator team evaluating Environments for Health.

Martin Carroll Martin has been Audit Director with the Australian Universities Quality Agency since 2001 and is currently Consulting Director with the Oman Accreditation Council. He has provided external quality assurance and consultancy services for academic institutions and national higher education systems in many countries—in particular, in South East Asia and the Arab Gulf. According to Mr Carroll, universities bear responsibilities which are expected in general but often ignored in policy. Drawing on national and international experiences, he will discuss the potential for the role of universities as champions of social health to be strengthened through national external quality assurance reforms.

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For program enquiries contact Dr Iain Butterworth

For further registration or payment details, please contact Anne Griffiths