Go for zero: How Australia can get to zero COVID-19 cases
REPORTby Stephen Duckett and Will Mackey
Victoria, NSW, and Queensland should aggressively drive COVID-19 cases down to zero as part of an explicit national policy of no active cases in the Australian community.
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Health Program Director
Stephen DuckettDr Stephen Duckett has held top operational and policy leadership positions in health care in Australia and Canada, including as Secretary of what is now the Commonwealth Department of Health. He has a reputation for creativity, evidence-based innovation and reform in areas ranging from the introduction of activity-based funding for hospitals to new systems of accountability for the safety of hospital care. An economist, he is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
Information about Stephen Duckett’s academic publications are available on Google Scholar.
Program Topics
Reports
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3 September 2020
Go for zero: How Australia can get to zero COVID-19 cases -
28 June 2020
The Recovery Book: what Australian governments should do now -
21 June 2020
Coming out of COVID-19 lockdown: the next steps for Australian health care -
3 December 2019
Saving private health 2: Making private health insurance viable -
25 November 2019
Saving private health 1: reining in hospital costs and specialist bills
News & Opinion
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8 September 2020
The PM is wrong: aged care should not be ‘pre-palliative care’ -
9 August 2020
Victoria’s daily COVID reporting is hopelessly inadequate -
24 July 2020
Questions of governance: reflections from a primary health network -
13 July 2020
Intensive care beds: Stephen Duckett responds to Health Minister Greg Hunt -
4 June 2020
Governance lessons for Australia from COVID-19
Podcasts
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7 September 2020
Go for Zero: How Australia can get to zero COVID-19 cases -
22 June 2020
How our health system can be better after the pandemic – Webinar recording -
15 May 2020
COVID-19: What does the new normal look like? -
13 March 2020
COVID-19 and Australia’s healthcare system
Submissions
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18 September 2020
Lessons from Victoria’s COVID-19 failures -
16 June 2020
The consequences of private involvement in healthcare -
1 May 2020
Learning the lessons from the 2019-20 bushfires -
29 April 2020
Preparing for a hotter Australia
Presentations
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28 April 2020
The role of boards during the pandemic -
4 December 2019
Saving private health -
22 October 2019
Remembering Richard Scotton, co-founder of Medicare -
6 August 2019
Prosthesis pricing needs fundamental reform
Events
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06 July 2020
How Australia can recover from the COVID-19 crisis – Webinar event -
10 June 2020
Webinar Event: How our health system can be better after the pandemic -
27 March 2020
The economic, budgetary and health impacts of COVID-19: webinar -
25 November 2019
Can private health insurance be saved from the jaws of death? – Canberra -
16 July 2019
Private health insurance under challenge – Melbourne