IHACPA Conference 2025

Adelaide Convention Centre, 5 – 7 August 2025

Committee members

Michael Pervan

Chief Executive Officer, IHACPA

Professor Michael Pervan commenced as the Chief Executive Officer of IHACPA on 1 February 2023.

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Jane Hall

Distinguished Professor Of Health Economics, University of Technology Sydney

Professor Jane Hall is Distinguished Professor of Health Economics in the Business School at the University of Technology, Sydney.

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Laura Harris

Executive Director, Aged Care Policy, IHACPA

Laura Harris has worked at IHAPCA since 2019 and leads the team responsible for aged care policies and approval of refundable accommodation deposits higher than the maximum accommodation payment, and extra service fees.

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Maria Inacio

Director, Registry of Senior Australians, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute

Prof Inacio is an epidemiologist with expertise in population health surveillance, registry science, and health and aged care services research. She is the Director of the Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA) Research Centre at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Matthew Flinders Professor of Health Services and Epidemiology at Flinders University, and an NHMRC Emerging Leadership 2 Fellow.

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Alisha Lucas

Senior Director, Healthcare Purchasing and Funding, Queensland Health

Alisha has extensive health sector experience that spans 25 years working across public and private hospitals in QLD and interstate, the community health sector, the tertiary education sector and the health information technology sector. She is a qualified Health Information Manager (HIM), holding a Bachelor of Health Science (HIM) and an MBA in corporate governance and leadership.

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Sarah Neville

Director, Analytics, IHACPA

Sarah Neville, PhD. is a Senior Harkness Fellow in Heath Care Policy and Practice. She is currently the Director, Analytics at the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority.

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Nicole Sutton

Associate Professor, Accounting, UTS Ageing Research Collaborative, University of Technology Sydney

Dr Nicole Sutton is a highly engaged researcher who delivers high-quality evidence that informs policy and practice across the aged care sector.

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Kees van Gool

Executive Director, Pricing and Analytics, IHACPA

Kees van Gool is Executive Director of Pricing and Analytics at IHACPA and professor at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney.

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Andrew Wilson AO

Co-Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics

Professor Wilson is Co-Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, and Professor of Public Health in the School of Public Health, at the University of Sydney.

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