Health Sciences

School of Public Health

Judith Dwyer ( Adjunct - Associate Professor )

Qualifications

BA Qld, MBA Adelaide, FACHSE, MAICD

Interests

• Management Development in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (jointly with Associate Professor Cindy Shannon). Funded by the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health and La Trobe University
• Evaluation of governance reforms in South Australia (in collaboration with the Department of Health, Adelaide).
• Evaluation of the Access Block Improvement Program, NSW Health.

Experience

• 1999 2000 Southern Health (Care Network), Chief Executive
• 1995 1998 Flinders Medical Centre, Chief Executive and Associate Professor, Health Services Management, Flinders University
• 1991 1995 Womens and Childrens Hospital, Adelaide, Deputy Chief Executive
• 1990 South Australian Health Commission, Director, Health Programs in the Metropolitan Health Services Division
• 1987 1989 Family Planning Association of South Australia, Chief Executive
• 1985 1986 Julia Farr Centre, Director of Administration
• 1981 1985 Adelaide Womens Community Health Centre, Research Officer (81-83) and Director
• 1970s Employed in various community-based and local government organisations in Toronto Canada, and in Melbourne, working as research officer, finance co-ordinator and community worker.

• Director, Australian Resource Centre for Healthcare Innovations
• Director, Yarra Valley Water
• Adjunct Professor, Institute of Public Health, Monash University
• Fellow, Australian College of Health Service Executives
• Member, Australian Institute of Company Directors
• Member, Public Health Association of Australia

Publications

• Johnstone, PL, Dwyer, J and Lloyd P. (2005). 'Managing and Leading Change', in Harris, M. ed. Health Services Management, 2nd Edition, Elsevier, Sydney. In press.
• Leggat, S and Dwyer J (2005). 'Inspiring Innovation' in Stanton P, Willis E and Young S, eds, Health Care Reform and Industrial Change in Australia: Lessons, Challenges and Implications, London, Palgrave McMillan. In press.
• Leggat, S and Dwyer, J. (2005). 'Improving hospital performance: Culture change is not the asnwer', Healthcare Quarterly, Vol 8 No 2, pp. 60-66.
• Dwyer, J.M. (2004). Australian health system restructuring: What problem is being solved? Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, 1(1). http://www.anzhealthpolicy.com/content/1/1/6
• Dwyer, J., Diamond, M., & Polley, K. (2004). Governance handbook. Adelaide: Department of Human Services.
  
• Dwyer, J, Silburn K and Wilson G (2004). National strategies for improving Indigenous health and health care, Canberra, Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health.
  http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/Content/health-oatsih-pubs-reviewphc.htm
• Dwyer, J (2004). 'Regionalization: Are even the flaws quintessentially Canadian?', Healthcare Papers, 5:1.
• Leggat S and Dwyer J (forthcoming). 'Inspiring Innovation' in Stanton P, Willis E and Young S, eds, Health Care Reform and Industrial Change in Australia: Lessons, Challenges and Implications, London, Palgrave McMillan.
• Dwyer J, Diamond M, Polley K (2004). Governance Handbook, Adelaide, Department of Human Services.
• Dwyer J, Stanton P and Thiessen V (2004) Project Management in Health and Community Services: Getting Good Ideas to Work, Allen and Unwin, Sydney.
• Leggat, S., & Dwyer, J. (2004). Australian public hospital performance: Is it the culture? Public Sector Management.
• Leggat, S. G., & Dwyer, J. (2004). Improving hospital performance: Culture change is not the answer. Hospital Quarterly.
  
• Leggat, S. G., Cull, T., & Dwyer, J. (2003). Statewide Review of Paediatric Services. (Part of the Metropolitan Health Strategy). Melbourne, Victoria: Department of Human Services.
• Dwyer J (2003) Book review: Medical Error: What do we know? What do we do? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 25:5 (564).
• Liamputtong P and Dwyer J (2003) 'Women and Health: An Ongoing Agenda', in Liamputtong P and Gardner H eds, Health, Social Change and Communities, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
• Leggat S and Dwyer J (2003) 'Factors Supporting High Performance in Health Care Organisations: A Review of the Literature', paper commissioned by National Institute of Clinical Studies and published on their website at: (http://www.nicsl.com.au/resources_reports.asp?cat=27&navPage=2).
• Heywood A and Dwyer J (2003) Capacity Building for Decentralisation of the Thai Health System, report prepared for Australian Department of Health and Ageing and Thai Ministry of Public Health, DoHA, Canberra.
• Dwyer J (2002)'The Ideal Health Minister', Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 56 (12) p 888.
• Dwyer J and Leggat S (2002) 'Innovation in Australian Hospitals', Australian Health Review, 25 (5) pp19-31.
• Lloyd PJ Johnstone PL and Dwyer J (2002) 'Managing and Leading Change', in Harris, M. Health Services Management, Allen and Unwin.
• Dwyer J (2001) 'Is there a right way to manage when things go wrong in hospitals? Health Issues, No 69, pp 13 - 16, December 2001.
• Dwyer J (2001) 'Women and Health Leadership: Challenges in the Mainstream' in Women and Health: Maximising Women's Capacities and Leadership, World Health Organisation Centre for Health Development, Kobe, Japan, pp124-129.
• Kalucy L, Beacham B, Raupach J, Dwyer J and Pilotto L (2001), Priorities for Primary Health Care Research, Evaluation and Development in Australia: Final Report Priority Setting Process: Stage 1, Flinders Press, Adelaide.
• Dwyer J and Jackson T (2001) Literature Review: Integrated Bed and Patient Management, Department of Human Services, www.dhs.vic.gov.au/ahs/patman.