Keynote Speaker
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Professor Dame Carol Black DBE MD FRCP FMedSci
Dame Carol Black is unique in the world, filling the health policy space between government and business – first with her 2008 review of the health of Britain’s working age population, presented to the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in the previous government, and now as a continuing champion and catalyst for improving the health of the workforce as a national economic and social strategy.
Dame Carol will keynote the 6th Annual Australian Health & Productivity Congress in August. Her presentation will examine the worsening health and wellbeing of working-age populations in developed countries, and relate health and employee engagement to work and productivity.
She will describe the range of approaches taken in the UK since 2005, when a national Health, Work and Wellbeing Strategy was first published. These approaches have focused on identifying changes needed in the workplace to safeguard the health and well-being of working people, and on refining the goals of clinical practice to recognize increasingly the influence of psychosocial factors on capability for work. And Dame Carol will discuss the crucial importance of organizational culture and the quality of management on the overall health and wellbeing of employees
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Professor Dame Carol Black DBE MD FRCP FMedSci
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Professor Dame Carol Black is the National Director for Health and Work, Chairman of the Nuffield Trust, President of the British Lung Foundation, and Pro-Chancellor of the University of Bristol. She is a past-President of the Royal College of Physicians, and immediate past-Chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. The Centre she established at the Royal Free Hospital, London is internationally renowned in the field of connective tissue diseases.
Since the early-1990s she has worked at board level in a number of organisations, including the Royal Free Hospital Hampstead NHS Trust, the Health Foundation, the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, and the Imperial College Healthcare Charity, and recently chaired the UK Health Honours Committee. She is a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, a member of the Committee for the Queen’s Awards for Voluntary Service, chairs the governance board of the new Centre for Workforce Intelligence, and is on several national committees aiming to improve healthcare. She is a Foreign Affiliate of the Institute of Medicine USA, and has been awarded many honorary degrees and fellowships.