Philip Davies

Mr Philip Davies

Mr Philip Davies is a Deputy Secretary with the Department of Health and Ageing.

Deputy Secretary

Philip Davies has been a Deputy Secretary in the Australian Government’s Department of Health & Ageing since August 2002. He brings to the role almost 30 years experience of health care policy and management in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and a number of other countries.
Immediately before taking up his current position he was working as a Senior Health Economist with the World Health Organisation in Geneva. Prior to that he was a Deputy Director-General in New Zealand’s Ministry of Health where he was responsible for sector-wide policy issues.
For the first half of his career Philip worked as a management consultant with Coopers & Lybrand. He originally joined the firm in London and spent time in Auckland before becoming Partner in charge of the firm’s consultancy practice in Christchurch, New Zealand. His work focused primarily on the health sector and he was involved in many of the key health reforms that took place in new Zealand and the UK during the 1980s and 1990s.
Philip has a particular interest in health services research and the use of research evidence to inform health policy. He currently serves on the Executive of the Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand and in 2007 he was appointed as an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Business at the University of Technology, Sydney.