At GIF17, Ben McMenamin will be running a workshop that seeks to answer the question, ‘how might we develop relationships between producers and eaters and establish a more connected food system?’. Before you catch him at the Forum, find out more about him with our “Fast Five” questions. 1. What was your dream job growing up?… Continue reading.
GIF17 speaker Tasman Bain is a social entrepreneur, a campaigner to end violence against women and a leading voice in youth mental health issues. Here, he answers our “Fast Five” questions. 1. What was your dream job growing up? TB: From youngest to adolescence: detective, astronomer, archaeologist, comedian, historian, diplomat. 2. If you… Continue reading.
At GIF17, Noela Prasad will be using her incredible first-hand knowledge in public health to lead a workshop on balancing value and volume in universal healthcare. We got to know a bit more about her with our “Fast Five” questions. 1. What was your dream job growing up? NP: To be a fashion designer!… Continue reading.
Manoj Gambhir is the Population Health Team lead at IBM Research Australia. He’ll be on the Technology and Global Health Panel at GIF17 and leading a workshop on making technology and data accessible to the people who need it most. But first, he answers our “Fast Five” questions. 1. What was your dream job growing… Continue reading.
Sophie Lamond is the co-founder of the Fair Food Challenge and GIF17 speaker. Find out more about her with our “Fast Five” questions. 1. What was your dream job growing up? SL: It changed constantly. It went from hairdresser, forensic psychologist, costume designer, geneticist to curator, which is what I ended up being before… Continue reading.
Kate Lardner and Harry Jennens founded Healthy Futures – an organisation of health professionals, students and community members taking action to address climate change and related threats to health. Before you catch them at GIF17, get to know them a little better with our “Fast Five” questions. 1. What was your dream job growing… Continue reading.
Get the topline on keynote speaker Maxine Mackintosh with our “Fast Five” questions. 1. What was your dream job growing up? MM: I think I was a pretentious child so thought being an astronaut would be fun. My current dream job is to run a community centre with my partner, or own a… Continue reading.
Interview by Elissa Hill. In between running One HealthTech, doing a PhD in informatics, and getting ready to jump on a plane to Melbourne for #GIF17, keynote speaker Maxine Mackintosh made time to share her thoughts on health tech. How we can create a more diverse and inclusive health tech sector? Global Ideas: What… Continue reading.
Interviewed By Stephanie Main. With less than 2 weeks to go until Global Ideas Forum 2017, we caught up with keynote speaker, Elya Tagar, Senior Director at Clinton Health Access Initiative Australia, to talk all things global health equity and this year’s theme, Global health in a volatile world: People, Politics & Planet. Global Ideas: Global health means… Continue reading.
While scoping locations for the 2016 Forum, the Global Ideas team discovered Fatima, owner of Kaya Catering. Fatima bustled up to us in her catering uniform, catching the team by surprise as we sat in the event space working through event logistics. At that stage, Fatima was working with a large catering company, with hopes… Continue reading.