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Philip Davies
Deputy Secretary Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
BSc, MSc.

Contact Details:
Telephone: (02) 6289 8410
Email: philip.davies@health.gov.au

 

Biography

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 has provided consultancy advice on health policy to the World Bank and WHO and in 2007 was appointed as an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Business at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Publications

• Management budgets in the NHS (with M Prowle), BMJ, 1 December 1984, Pp 1552 - 1554
• Comparing Health Authorities, DHSS, London, 1986
• Co-ordinated Care for Māori – Issues for Development, Te Kete Hauora, Ministry of Health, Wellington, 1995
• The role of health insurance in New Zealand, Healthcare Review – Online, 3(4); April 1999 <http://www.enigma.co.nz/hcro_articles/9904/vol3no4_002.htm>
• Making sense of integrated care in New Zealand, Australian Health Review, 22(4), 1999
• Drivers of quality in health services: Different worldviews of clinicians and policy managers revealed (with R Y Cavana, R M Robson & K J Wilson), System Dynamics Review, Vol 15 No 3 (Fall 1999) Pp 331 – 340
• Issues paper for Four Country Conference, Conference Report, Sydney, Australia, May 2000
• The future shape of primary health care in New Zealand, (with M Booth), Australian Health Review, 23(4), 2000
• Risk-pooling - necessary but not sufficient?, (with G Carrin), Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Vol 79 No 7, July 2001, Page 587
• Investment in health: Health expenditures as a proportion of GDP, (with T Mwase), Paper commissioned by the Commonwealth Secretariat for distribution to delegates attending the 13th Commonwealth Health Ministers’ Meeting, December 2001
• A framework for best practices analysis in the Rural Co-operative Medical System of the P. R. China: Part 1 – Health system functions and the organisation of financing, (with G Carrin), Chinese Health Economics, 2002
• A framework for best practices analysis in the Rural Co-operative Medical System of the P. R. China: Part 2 – Service provision, resource generation and stewardship, (with G Carrin), Chinese Health Economics, 2002
• A framework for best practices analysis in the Rural Co-operative Medical System of the P. R. China: Part 3 – Assessing performance, (with G Carrin), Chinese Health Economics, 2002
• Management of diverse health economies, UK/Australia Seminar – Federalism, Financing and Public Health (Seminar papers), Commonwealth of Australia, 2004