Adelaide Convention Centre, 5 – 7 August 2025
Master of Ceremonies
Millie Muroi is the economics writer for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age based in Canberra's press gallery. She was formerly a business reporter covering banks, financial services and markets in Sydney, and prior to that, a graduate economist with the WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry based in Perth.
Director, WHO Centre for Health Development, Kobe Japan
Dr Sarah Louise Barber is a health economist and policy specialist. She holds a doctorate and post-doctorate qualifications from the University of California, Berkeley, USA, focusing on economic evaluation. Before becoming Director of the Centre, she worked on strategic policy issues with the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Western Pacific, Southeast Asian, and African regions.
Chief Innovation Officer, Kaiser Permanente, Southern California
Tad Funahashi, MD is the Chief Innovation Officer for Kaiser Permanente Southern California. In this role, he leads a team of physicians, consultants, designers, data scientists, and engineers who work together with teams and leaders across Kaiser Permanente to envision and build the healthcare delivery system of the future at the Kaiser Permanente Innovations Studio.
Emeritus professor of Social Medicine, Amsterdam UMC
Dr Klazinga has been a professor of Social Medicine at the University Medical Center/University of Amsterdam since 1999 and became an active emeritus in 2024. From 2006 to 2022, he was the strategic lead of the Health Care Quality and Outcomes program at the OECD in Paris, where he currently still functions in an advisory capacity.
Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Amol Navathe, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine, Health Policy, and Healthcare Management and Economics at the Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as Vice Chairman of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), advising Congress on Medicare policy, and co-founded Embedded Healthcare (now Clarify Health), a healthcare technology company.
Director, Center for Health System Sustainability, Brown University School of Public Health
Dr Irene Papanicolas is Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at Brown University’s School of Public Health and the founding Director of the Center for Health System Sustainability (CHeSS). Her research centers on measuring and comparing health system performance.
