Mike Stephens
Director, Medicines Policy and Programs
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)
Mike Stephens is Director of Medicines Policy and Program at the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) and a research affiliate of the Melbourne Institute’s Health Analytics, Leadership, and Economics (HALE) Hub at the University of Melbourne.
Mike has 25 years’ experience working in a diverse range of roles in the health and medicines sector, both in Australia and overseas, including in community and hospital pharmacy, as a consultant pharmacist, and in education and intern assessment.
Mike has spent the past decade working in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health sector as a consultant, policy and program director and as a practising pharmacist integrated into an Aboriginal health service.
Through his work at NACCHO, Mike has provided policy advice to all levels of government and has worked with a range of national agencies, advisory groups, boards and peak bodies to influence medicines policy to benefit Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Sessions
Day 2
10.15
Integrating cultural medicines: From community practice to health system policy
What First Nations communities and stakeholders say about the role of cultural medicines in wellbeing, cultural safety, and engagement with care
How ACCHOs and partners can support safe use and access of cultural medicines
What needs to change in policy, funding and governance to support access while protecting Indigenous knowledge
Dr Alana Gall, Researcher, Southern Cross University
Mike Stephens, Director, Medicines Policy and Programs, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)