Staff Information

Judith Healy has a degree in Arts from Adelaide University, a masters degree in social work from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, USA, and a PhD in health sciences from La Trobe University in Melbourne. She has worked on social and health policy areas in Australia, the United States and Europe, and joined the Regulatory Institutions Network in September 2004.

Professional Activities

My current research focuses upon the regulation in the Australian health care system, particularly governance strategies to improve the safety and quality of health care for patients. Other research areas are the comparative analysis of health care systems, and policies for ageing populations. My varied experience apart from academia includes community work with Aboriginal communities in Australia, hospital social work, and road accident research. I taught social policy and administration at the Flinders University of South Australia, conducted health and social services research at Policy Studies Institute in London, and researched health systems and policies for the European Observatory on Health Care Systems and Policies, based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, employed by the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. Upon returning to Australia I directed an Australian National University AusAID-funded program, in collaboration with Mahidol University in Thailand, ru nning training courses for senior public servants in SE Asia. I have also worked as a consultant for the World Health Organization Geneva, the Western Pacific Office of the World Health Organization, the International Labour Organization (ILO) the World Bank, the British Council, and the Ford Foundation.

Selected Publications

McKee M & Healy J eds (2002) Hospitals in a Changing Europe Open University Press, Buckingham & Philadelphia (also published in Russian translation).

McKee M, Healy J & Falkingham J eds (2002) Health Care in Central Asia Open University Press, Buckingham & Philadelphia (also published in Russian translation).

Healy J & McKee M eds. (2004) Accessing Health Care: Responding to Diversity Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Healy J (2004) ‘The benefits of an ageing population’ The Australia Institute Discussion Paper No 63. ISSN 1322-5421

Braithwaite J, Healy J & Dwan K (2005) The Governance of Safety and Quality: A Discussion Paper. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia.

Healy J, Sharman E, Lokuge B (2006) ‘ Australia: health system review’ Health Systems in Transition 8 (5): 1-158 (Published by the World Health Organization on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies).

Healy J, Maxwell J, Phua KH, Lin V & collaborators (2007) Responding to Requests for Information on Health Systems from Policy Makers in Asian Countries. Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization, Geneva.

McKee M & Healy J (2000) ‘The role of the hospital in a changing environment’ Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2000, 78 (6): 803-810

Healy J & McKee M (2002) ‘Implementing change in hospital systems in central and eastern Europe’ Health Policy 61(1): 1-19.

Healy J (2002) ‘The care of older people: Australia and the United Kingdom’ Social Policy & Administration 36 (1): 1-19.

Healy J ‘(2003) Analysing health care systems performance: the story behind the statistics’ Australia and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 27(6): 642-644.

Healy J , Maffi C, Dugdale P (2008) ‘A national medical register: balancing public transparency and professional privacy’ Medical Journal of Australia 188(4): 247- 249