ANZAM Health Management and Organisation – Special Interest Group
We all need healthcare – either for ourselves or a loved one. This includes support for health issues, mental health issues, and substance use issues. Furthermore, our need for quality healthcare has never been greater – this is largely because of our ageing populations and the rise of multi-morbidities, including those that are prioritised by Australian and New Zealand governments.
Managing health services can be difficult – this encompasses the ways they are designed, resourced, governed, led, organised, managed, developed, marketed, regulated, and coordinated; as well as the ways they translate research into practice. Consider, for instance: the increasing cost of healthcare; the limited availability of public funding; the rate of reform; the speed of technological innovation; our changing (if not heightened) expectations, as patients or carers; the louder calls for transparency; different (if not greater) accountability mechanisms; as well as increasing pressure to demonstrate evidence-based practices, including interprofessional care, whereby disparate disciplines are expected to collaborate, complement, and coordinate.
Given the importance of healthcare, the aim of the Health Management and Organisation Special Interest Group is to advance ANZAM interests through concentrated scholarly activity on the processes and practices within and among health services, broadly defined. This aim is achieved by:
- Connecting individuals – and the organisations they represent – with a shared interest in healthcare to form a critical mass
- Advancing the strategic plan of ANZAM by pursuing this shared interest in healthcare, empirically, theoretically, conceptually, methodologically, and practically
- Extending and complementing the ANZAM Health Management and Organisation Conference Stream
- Engaging with different methodologies and methods that support transdisciplinary approaches
- Advocating and lobbying for policies, practices, and scholarship that promote member interests
- Partnering with organisations across and beyond the Tasman with shared and complementary interests, and coordinating our efforts accordingly
CONTACTS:
Professor Ann Dadich, PhD, MAPS, NSW JP, ANZAMM
- School of Business, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor Hassan Hosseinzadeh
- University of Wollongong
- hassanh@uow.edu.au
Session recordings:
HMO SIG Session 18/11/25 – What Helped Me Most? Advancing The Doctoral Journey
The ANZAM Health Management and Organisation Special Interest Group hosted an event aimed at supporting doctoral and early career researchers. This event featured presentations from multiple speakers who shared their experiences and challenges throughout their PhD journeys, and how they managed and learnt from the challenges. The meeting included discussions on doctoral supervision and practical guidance for managing academic work, emphasising the importance of supervisor support, maintaining resilience, balancing various commitments, and maintaining a network of supportive colleagues, like that of ANZAM and its Special Interest Groups.
HMO SIG Session 24/11/24 – Workshop – Intersection of technology and health service management
HMO SIG session 15/9/23 – How to optimise the wellbeing of healthcare professionals