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Workforce Issues

Thursday, September 1, 2022
12:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Digital Posters

Speaker

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Ms Fay Staios
Strategic Lead
Turning Point

Workforce Development in AOD, a Response to COVID-19

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Biography

An experienced manager who has worked in both Higher Education and Vocational Education and Training, in Health and other areas, for over 25 years. This experience includes work in public policy in education at a national level. Fay holds a degree in Education and a post graduate degree in Business.
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Dr Elisabeth Yar
Senior Research Officer
ATODA

Rising educational attainment in the alcohol and other drug sector: evidence and implications

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Dr Yarbakhsh is ATODA’s Workplace Development and Research Officer. She has a background in social anthropology and obtained a PhD from the Australian National University in 2017. Dr Yarbakhsh has undertaken policy-relevant research in Australia and overseas and has published widely in the disciplines of Anthropology, Indigenous Studies and Communication.
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Dr Jane Fischer
Research Fellow
National Centre For Education And Training On Addiction (nceta)

Factors associated with retention of regional and remote Australian AOD workers: an exploratory study

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Dr Jane Fischer joined NCETA in 2012 and holds a PhD in public health. Her work at NCETA involves development, planning, implementation, and delivery of research translation projects. Recent projects have included the Online Collection of Screening and Withdrawal instruments, workforce development projects for several Primary Health Networks.
Ms Chloe Langfield
Pharmacist
Cooleman Court Pharmacy

The Role of Community Pharmacy in the Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Workforce

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Biography

Chloe Langfield is a community pharmacist located in Canberra with an interest in harm-minimisation services relating to alcohol and other drug treatment programs.
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