Paul Grant FAIDH (facilitator)  

Oceania Federal Government Digital Health Leader, EY

Paul is a strategic and technical people leader known internationally for his thought leadership on digital health and the use of health information to drive policy or health service delivery improvements.

Paul provides leadership in digital health and life sciences with an emphasis on privacy and consent, data integration, longitudinal analytics, and human system insights.

His career has included roles as Chief Health Information Officer, Senior Client Partner, and Chief Innovation Officer, predominantly within healthcare and the pharmaceutical industry.

Paul is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (FAIDH) and Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (FRSA).

Vicki Bennett FAIDH CHIA

Unit Head, Metadata, Information Management and Classifications Unit (MIMCU), Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Vicki is the Head of the Metadata, Information Management and Classifications Unit at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, where she has held a number of different roles over the past 15 years. She is on the Board of the Health Information Management Association of Australia and is the President of the International Federation of Health Information Management Associations.

Vicki has a degree in Health Information Management, and a Masters in Health Informatics, and has had a diverse career both domestically and internationally. She has also lectured at a range of Australian universities and is passionate about ensuring that good health information is used to improve health outcomes for all.

Jason Howden

Chief Data Officer, Department of Veterans' Affairs

After a very non-linear first 20 years in the APS Mr Jason Howden is now the Chief Data Officer (CDO) of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA).

Before joining the APS, Jason was a pizza shop manager, bank teller, blackjack dealer, discount furniture store man, and night manager of a hotel. Continuing the seemingly (actual) random career path in the APS, Jason has worked in Service Delivery, Finance, HR, IT, Change Management, and Transformation roles across 8 APS agencies. There was also couple of years contracting in London, somewhere in the middle there.

Jason has employed a similarly diverse approach to education, with Diplomas in HR and Management, a degree in Adult Education, Master of Business, and Graduate Certificate in Change Management.

Jason was lucky to lead the implementation of the findings of a corporate review at the Department of Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business which was a finalist at the Prime Minister's Awards for Excellence in Public Sector Management. He was also a finalist in his own time, in the NSW Premier's Challenge to apply behavioural insights reduce domestic violence reoffending.

As someone who loves to learn (and is easily bored), Jason particularly enjoys the diverse opportunities that exist in an APS career.

Harry Iles-Mann

Health consumer advocate | lived-experience engagement & health strategy consultant | speaker | committee member

Harry is an experienced consumer leader, digital health expert advisor, lived-experience engagement and health strategy consultant, mental health ambassador, and speaker. He is also a young person living with complex chronic illness and disability, and the recipient of two liver transplants.