A/Professor Susan Wearne

Susan Wearne is Senior Medical Adviser in the Health Workforce Division in the Australian Government Department of Health. She works on the suite of Australian government policies and programs to teach and train quality health professionals and promote and retain their distribution across the country. Prior to moving to Canberra she worked as a GP academic in England and in central Australia. She was the medical lead in the development of the National Medical Workforce Strategy 2021 and is now working on its implementation.
Susan trained and worked as GP and academic in England prior to working for Flinders University in Alice Springs. Her work for the Remote Vocational Training Scheme sparked her interest in technology enabled learning, and her PhD on remote GP supervision. Her general practice textbook is now in its fourth edition. She is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Australian National University and works as a sessional GP in Canberra.