Philip Davies joined the Australian
Government's Department of Health & Ageing as a Deputy
Secretary in 2002 and brings to the role more than 25 years'
international experience in health care policy and management. As a
member of the Department’s Executive he has had
responsibility for policy development and program management in a
variety of areas including medical and pharmaceutical benefits,
health workforce, e-health, rural health, Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander health and private health insurance. He is a member
of the Executive Committee of the Health Services Research
Association of Australia and New Zealand, he served on the Board of
the National Blood Authority and chaired the Australian
Government’s Gene Technology Standing Committee. In December
2005 Mr Davies was also appointed as Transitional Director of the
Joint Agency Establishment Group tasked with setting up the
proposed Australia New Zealand Therapeutic Products Authority.
After graduating in Mathematics, Mr
Davies worked for five years with the Department of Health &
Social Security in London before joining Coopers & Lybrand (now
PricewaterhouseCoopers) as a health care management consultant. In
1991 he transferred to Auckland, New Zealand and in 1995 he became
a partner in the firm's consultancy practice in Christchurch, New
Zealand.
In 1997 Mr Davies joined the New
Zealand Ministry of Health as a Deputy Director-General, leading
the development of policy and legislation underpinning the most
recent reorganisation of New Zealand's health system in 2000. He
then spent 18 months as a Senior Health Economist with the World
Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva before moving to Australia.
Mr Davies holds a Masters degree in
Management Science and Operational Research. He is also an Honorary
Fellow of the Health Services Research Centre at the Victoria
University of Wellington, New Zealand, and has provided consultancy
advice on health policy to the World Bank and WHO.
Mr Davies has recently been appointed as a Adjunct Professor in the
Faculty of Business at the University of Technology,
Sydney.
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