Wild Health Canberra Workshop and Summit 2026 - The Great Prevention Pivot

A half-day workshop and full-day summit followed by the HSD Gala Dinner and Great Debate. PROGRAM: https://www.wildhealth.net

We talk incessantly about it, but politics, system momentum, tribal thinking and vested interests keep combining to stymie any meaningful progress towards transitioning our system to prevention. Times up. What are the key blockers in play and how can we start going around them to actually start ‘The Great Prevention Pivot’?

Brought to you by Wild Health, Health Services Daily, and the AIDH.

FULL PROGRAM HERE.

A half-day workshop and one-day summit, followed by the inaugural Health Services Innovation Awards gala dinner.

Tuesday June 16th – Wednesday June 17th 2026, Park Hyatt Canberra

June 16

Half Day Health Leaders Workshop

June 17

One Day Summit: psychology of change, blockers, tactics, strategies

Gala Dinner

The Great Debate

Topics include:

• Healthcare in the harshest light of our rapidly approaching demographic train crash:
• The unfolding reality of aged care, mental health, the NDIS, chronic care, hospitals and the capacity of community healthcare services
• Workforce crash
• Identifying the critical inflection points in the intersection of technology, policy and funding
• Deconstructing key system dynamics to understand points of potential intervention
• Our hospital problem
• Practical ideas to meaningfully move the dial on prevention:
• Federal vs State system management opportunity
• New models of care that are scaling and having impact
• Learning from PHI innovation
• Private vs public system integration
• Optimising the evolving sharing by default infrastructure
• Inverting the hospital centric model with connectivity
• Workforce and AI
• Case studies of success

FULL PROGRAM HERE.