In this episode, we dive into the Future of Work with Jeff Schwartz, Retired Partner at Deloitte and US leader of Future of work. He will take us through the impact of the pandemic on the Future of Work and what this means for business transformation, the workforce and the workplace.

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In our first episode of Series 3 we meet Dr Fatima Cody Stanford. She is an award-winning obesity medicine physician scientist, educator and policy maker at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Fatima showcases her expertise in obesity and nutrition, discussing the potential impact of our new future ways of working on our health. She will also discuss another important topic of diversity and inclusion within healthcare and what more as a society we should do.

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Article: Superhuman, but never enough: Black women in medicine: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02217-0/fulltext

The Future Health Podcast is a creation of NSW Health. For more info on NSW Health visit: health.nsw.gov.au You can also watch the podcast at the NSW Health Youtube Channel.

In the final episode for Series 2 we meet Susan Pearce, the Deputy Secretary of the Patient Experience and System Performance Division. Since March 2020 Susan has taken a role within the state’s COVID response as the State Health Emergency Operations Centre Controller. In this episode, Susan explains operational delivery in a crisis and how we make sure to bring a humanised lens to healthcare delivery.

In our seventh episode we are introduced to Arif Jetha, a Scientist at the Institute for Work and Health, and an assistant professor at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana University Toronto. In this episode Arif discusses the intersections between the work environment and health and how the future of work will affect those living with disabilities.

For our sixth episode we meet Dr. Nik Dawson, a Labour Economist and Data Scientist specialising in labour economics and the 'future of work'. Nik currently works with Faethm AI as a Senior Research Associate and completed his PHD in Computational Economics from UTS. Nik explains what computational economics actually is and how the way we use data will influence the future of work.

In our fifth episode we are introduced to Dr Simon Kos, a Health Industry Executive at Microsoft and Medical Advisor for Next Practice. Simon was previously the Chief Medical Officer for Microsoft Health and started his career as a Medical Officer in NSW Health. In this episode Simon touches on digital transformation (you can hear more from Simon on that here), how the cloud can be used for healthcare and what digital can do for the future of work.

On the fourth episode we meet Dr. Karen Eggleston, a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the Director of the Stanford Asia Health Policy Program. Karen and her colleagues from the University of Tokyo and Stanford University have been conducting research on robots and labour in the service sector in Japan and recently published this paper. In this episode Karen explains how robotics will influence the future of work and the considerations that need to be made for the workforce.

Our third episode introduces Cynthia Mahoney, a facilitator, coach, mentor, speaker and author with a passion for personal disruption, positive psychology, high-performance and wellbeing. In this episode Cynthia discuss how teams and leaders can help to cultivate high performing environments and what we can take from the pandemic into the future to support the future of leadership.

In our second episode we meet Dr. Rob Grenfell, the Director of the Health and Biosecurity Business Unit at CSIRO. Rob’s unit released the ‘Future of Work’ report and this episode Rob discusses the challenges we currently face and how we enable a shift from illness treatment to health and wellbeing management.

In our first episode we meet Dr. Celso Cardona, Principal Dentist at Maven Dental Inner West Sydney. With a father and brother who are both dentists, Celso has been in touch with dentistry since childhood and has over 12 years’ experience in all forms of general dentistry, with an interest in cosmetic dentistry and expertise in root canal. Celso discusses how he sees the future of Dentistry being more about care co-ordination, how technology can improve the patient experience, and how his clinical training in other specialty areas assists in delivering holistic patient care.