Published Oct 29 2020

The Picture Of Health - What Happens Next? podcast on digital health

Chris
Bain

Professor of Practice in Digital Health

Maithri peiris goonetilleke

Associate Professor, Global Health

Cathie reid am

Co-Founder of Australia’s Epic Group

Selina lo

Senior Research Fellow, Monash Sustainable Development Institute

Listen to all the practical tips from our experts about taking advantage of this acceleration in digital healthcare, and how we can make it work for all of us.

Monash digital health expert Chris Bain and Monash alumna and Epic Group founder Cathie Reid have great advice on how we can get the best out of the shift towards digital health as patients, practitioners and a society.

Maithri Goonetillake, from the Monash School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, and Selina Lo, from the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, point to resources and information for those who want to better understand and embrace the idea of planetary health.

"Every time that you work towards creating social justice, every time that you work towards improving climate change and improving environmental sustainability, you're actually improving health outcomes for your country and your world. That's how we begin."

Maithri Goonetilleke, Associate Professor, Global Health

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About the Authors

Chris bain

Professor of Practice in Digital Health, Faculty of Information Technology

Chris' position is the first of its kind in the faculty. He has more than 30 years' experience in the health industry, including 12 in clinical medicine. He's led numerous software development and implementation projects in the health industry and works with many faculties and Institutes across the University, as well as with a range of health industry partners, in leading the Monash efforts in Digital Health
Maithri peiris goonetilleke

Associate Professor, Global Health

Assoc Prof Maithri Goonetilleke is an Australian medical doctor and Associate Professor in Global Health. For the last 15 years Maithri has worked as a clinician and public health worker in both Australia and Eswatini, Sub Saharan Africa. In Eswatini he was founder of the non governmental organization Possible Dreams International which addresses structural determinants of health in the most rural and remote parts of the country and is entirely managed by Indigenous Swazi people.
Cathie reid am

Co-Founder of Australia’s Epic Group

Cathie is the Co-Founder of Australia’s Epic Group, including Epic Pharmacy and Epic Good Foundation, and the Co-Founder of Icon Group, which includes Icon Cancer Care, Radiation Oncology Centres (ROC), Slade Health chemotherapy compounding, and pharmacy management services to the Epic and Slade Pharmacies. She’s also a Monash Alumni from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Selina lo

Senior Research Fellow, Monash Sustainable Development Institute

Selina has previously worked for Doctors without Borders leading medical humanitarian project teams in Kabul, Afghanistan, Rakhine State, Myanmar, Bangladesh, China, and Thailand. She was the medical director for Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines based in Geneva, and Clinical Advisor to the Clinton Foundation based at the national Chinese Centre for Disease Control HIV AIDS unit.