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Public and Aboriginal Health Division
The Public and Aboriginal Health Division provides strategic
and operational direction for public health services in the
WA health system. The division is responsible for fulfilling
the legislative responsibilities of the Public Health Act 2016,
Food Act 2008 and related Acts. These responsibilities
include the regulation of food and tobacco products, public buildings, chemical
hazards, personal services, water and radiation safety, regulation of medicines
and poisons, vector control, waste-water management, immunisation, infectious
disease surveillance, outbreak investigation and disaster management.
The Public and Aboriginal Health Division performs functions that encourage and
enable healthy lifestyles and Aboriginal health and wellbeing. The division also
collects and analyses statewide health information to monitor the population's
health status and aid in the planning and design of programs and health responses
to protect and promote the health of Western Australians.
Dr Andrew Robertson CSC PSM
Chief Health Officer and Assistant Director General
Dr Robertson provides expert leadership and advice to the Director General and
Minister for Health on public and Aboriginal health matters, and emerging issues. In
his role as Chief Health Officer, Dr Robertson is a member of the State Emergency
Management Committee and the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee.
Dr Robertson has specialist qualifications in public health medicine and medical
administration. He served with the Royal Australian Navy from 1984 until 2003 and
remains in the Active Reserve.
As Chief Health Officer, Dr Robertson played an integral role in guiding the Western
Australian and national response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This included
representing the state at national public health forums, developing public health
advice and measures to inform the State Emergency Committee, and leading the
department's COVID-19 response.
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Purchasing and System
Performance Division
The Purchasing and System Performance Division
comprises 3 directorates: Information and System
Performance, System Resourcing and Finance, and System
Procurement and Contracting.
The Purchasing and System Performance Division is the primary point of
liaison between the department and the Department of Treasury. The division is
responsible for the strategic management of resource allocation. A key function
of the division is to monitor, manage and analyse the performance of the WA
health system in accordance with the Health Services Act 2016, in support of the
underlying objective to ensure the continued provision of safe, equitable and high
quality public health care to all Western Australians.
The division undertakes demand and capacity modelling, system analytics,
and data integrity (encompassing information policy, data management and
information governance) and provides a world class data linkage function. The
division is responsible for the strategic management of financial operations,
including financial reform and policy, and delivers national and public reporting for
the department. The division also manages key community sector contracts for
statewide services and undertakes whole of system budgeting and purchasing
functions. This includes issuing of service agreements with health service
providers and stewarding the head agreement with the Mental Health Commission.
Mr Rob Anderson - Assistant Director General
Mr Rob Anderson was appointed to the role of Assistant Director General of
the Purchasing and System Performance Division in February 2023, having
previously acted in this role on numerous occasions since 2018. Prior to this
role, Mr Anderson was the Executive Director of the Information and System
Performance Directorate, formerly System Performance, from July 2016.
Throughout his 29 years in public service, Mr Anderson has held a variety of
senior portfolios across numerous organisations, including the Director of Activity
Based Management Reform, and was involved in both the Fiona Stanley Hospital
Commissioning Project and the Midland Health Campus Project.
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Significant issues Report on operations Agency performance Operational disclosures ⚫Key performance indicators • Financial disclosures and compliance • AppendixView entire presentation