Meet the Invited Speakers



We are delighted to announce our International speakers for the 13th Health Services Research
Conference 2024.


Professor Julia Adler-Milstein

Dr. Julia Adler-Milstein is a Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Clinical Informatics & Digital Transformation, and Director of the Center for Clinical Informatics & Improvement Research (CLIIR).

Dr. Adler-Milstein is a leading researcher in health IT policy, with a specific focus on electronic health records and interoperability. She has examined policies and organizational strategies that enable effective use of electronic health records and promote interoperability. She is also an expert in EHR audit log data and its application to studying clinician behavior. Her research – used by researchers, health systems, and policymakers – identifies obstacles to progress and ways to overcome them.

She has published over 200 influential papers, testified before the US Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, been named one of the top 10 influential women in health IT, and won numerous awards, including the New Investigator Award from the American Medical Informatics Association and the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award from AcademyHealth. She has served on an array of influential committees and boards, including the NHS National Advisory Group on Health Information Technology, the Health Care Advisory Board for Politico, and the Interoperability Committee of the National Quality Forum.

Dr. Adler-Milstein holds a PhD in Health Policy from Harvard and spent six years on the faculty at University of Michigan prior to joining UCSF as a Professor in the Department of Medicine and the inaugural director of the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research in 2017. She became the inaugural Chief of the Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation in 2023.


Professor Mike Drummond

Michael Drummond is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York in the United Kingdom. His main field of interest is in the economic evaluation of health care treatments and programmes.  

Mike has undertaken evaluations in a wide range of medical fields including care of the elderly, neonatal intensive care, immunization programmes, services for people with AIDS, eye health care and pharmaceuticals.  

Mike is the author of two major textbooks and more than 750 scientific papers.  He has been President of the International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care, and the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research. In October 2010 he was made a member of the National Academy of Medicine in the USA. 

Mike has advised several governments on the assessment of health technologies and chaired one of the Guideline Review Panels for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the UK. 

Mike served for 14 years as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Value in Health and was made Editor Emeritus in May 2024. He has been awarded 3 honorary doctorates, from City University (London), Erasmus University (Rotterdam) and the University of Lisbon. He was a member of the Steering Group for the 2020-22 NICE Methods Review.






We are delighted to announce the following Australian and New Zealand speakers for the 13th Health Services Research Conference 2024.


Professor Melissa Baysari

Professor Melissa Baysari leads the Digital Health Human Factors Research Group in the Faculty of Medicine and Health, at the University of Sydney. Her group’s research applies Human Factors methods and approaches to evaluate and optimise health technologies to support healthcare work and improve patient safety. Her team seeks to understand and improve the interactions between users, health technologies and organisations. Melissa is a certified professional ergonomist, and highly experienced in both quantitative and qualitative evaluations of health information technology. Her research to date has focused primarily on digital health to support medication management, with a particular focus on the design and evaluation of computerised decision support, and minimising unintended consequences of health technology implementation and use. 

Melissa has secured >$20mill in research funding as a chief investigator, and she has published widely (>175 publications) in the areas of digital health safety, electronic prescribing and decision support. She has many ongoing collaborations with government, industry and health services, and her research has resulted in a number of significant changes being made to electronic medical record systems, as well as to hospital policy and work practices. 



Professor Sarah Larkins

Professor Sarah Larkins is an experienced research leader, academic general practitioner and Professor of Health Systems Strengthening in the College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University.  Sarah has particular skills and experience in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research and health services and workforce research and is an internationally recognised expert in social accountability in health professional education. Sarah is also a current member of the NHMRC Research Committee (2022-24) and Co-Director of the Anton Breinl Research Centre for Health Systems Strengthening, a centre of the Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine.

To date, Sarah has over 160 published peer-reviewed journal articles and several book chapters, with an h-index of 33, more than 3600 citations and well over $97m in grant funding.  This includes seven current NHMRC/MRFF grants as a CI (3 as CI A), investigating participatory strategies to strengthen quality improvement in Indigenous primary health care centres and a recent DFAT grant on strengthening implementation research capacity for surveillance and response in the Pacific. She currently supervises 10 students at HDR level with 19 PhD completions. Other recent funding is from the CRC-NA, the Commonwealth Department of Health and the Department of Education. 

Sarah's particular focus is on collaborating to improve equity in health care services for underserved populations, particularly rural, remote, Indigenous and tropical populations, and on training a health workforce with appropriate knowledge, attitudes and skills for this purpose.  She is a past co-chair, Primary and Chronic Care Panel and Guideline Leadership Group Member of the National Living Evidence Guidelines for COVID-19, Director, Townsville Mackay Medicare Local and past member of the World Health Organisation Technical Working Group on Health Workforce Education Assessment Tools and the National Technical Advisory Group for Health Workforce Australia. 



We are delighted to welcome Her Excellency the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young AC PSM, Governor of Queensland to conduct the Official Opening for the 13th Health Services Research Conference 2024 .


Her Excellency the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young AC PSM, Governor of Queensland 

Her Excellency the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young AC PSM, Governor of Queensland was born in Sydney in 1963. 

After graduating from Medicine at Sydney University in 1986, she commenced her medical career at Westmead Hospital before moving to Rockhampton in 1994 to become Director of Medical Services at the Rockhampton Hospital. 

In 1999, she relocated to Brisbane to take up the role of Executive Director of Medical Services at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and served on various workforce committees.

In August 2005, the Governor was appointed to the role of Chief Health Officer for Queensland.

During her medical career, Dr Young was appointed Fellow at several eminent education and research institutions. She has received honorary doctorates from two Queensland Universities, an Australia Day Achievement Medallion, a Public Service Medal, and in 2022, was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia. 

Her Excellency was sworn-in as the 27th Governor of Queensland on 1 November 2021 and is proud to serve all Queenslanders.

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