When I took over PHCM9391 Health Organisations, Strategy and Change in 2022, two reviews of the Master of Health Leadership and Management (MHLM; the reviews were a UNSW Academic Program Review and an independent program review in 2021-2022) had found that this core course needed to cover a wider range of topics. I also found that its aims and

Early institutional messaging about generative AI mostly told students not to use it. For health management students this was a problem because they’re moving into planning and policy roles where AI is already shaping decisions, and they needed to form judgements about what these systems produce and how they might be useful (or not). In Term 1

TEQSA's 2025 guidance on assessment reform asked universities to explain how their assessments were secured without giving them much guidance on how to answer the question. For mostly online postgraduate programs with working cohorts like the ones I teach in, the return to examinations and oral assessment that most institutions have reached for are among the least suitable or feasible.

The School of Population Health has many alumni, conjoint and adjunct staff who work in health services and want to contribute to our teaching. I wanted to draw on that goodwill and expertise so that students in PHCM9615 Primary Health Care could connect what they were learning with the experience of people working in the field. In 2020 and 2021 I interviewed 15 experts in integrated care and