Department of Health, Tasmania
Georgina Downey is an experienced communications professional currently serving as the Manager of Communications for Statewide Mental Health Services at the Department of Health in Tasmania since April 2021. With a robust background spanning over two decades, Georgina has held various significant roles, including Manager of Strategic Communications and Strategic Engagement at Melbourne Water, where responsibilities included managing communications for internal delivery teams and providing strategic advice for early-stage projects. Previous positions also include Manager Engagement at Coliban Region Water Corporation, Communications Manager at Pacific Hydro, Communications Adviser at Monash Health, and various impactful roles at VicRoads, Cardinia Shire Council, Vision 2020 Australia, Expert Information Solutions, and South Gippsland Shire Council. Georgina holds a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing from the University of Greenwich and a Diploma of Workplace Management from Monash Mt Eliza Business School.
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Department of Health, Tasmania
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The Department of Health improves, promotes, protects and maintains the health, safety and wellbeing of Tasmanians through service planning, managing, procuring and delivering high quality health services. This covers the range of essential public services delivered by operational Groups: - Ambulance Tasmania provides integrated, high quality, pre-hospital emergency and medical care, health transport and medical retrieval services to the Tasmanian community. - Public Health Services works to improve and protect the health and wellbeing of all Tasmanians by working in partnership with individuals, groups and communities. It also includes the vital corporate support services provided by departmental Groups: - Corporate Services manages the delivery of an efficient and effective statewide health and human services system by leading the provision of strategic corporate, policy and regulatory services. - Planning, Purchasing and Performance performs the core system management functions of strategy and planning, purchasing, performance management, monitoring, reporting and analysis. Office of the Secretary provides high level public administration, parliamentary and corporate governance support and advice to DoH, the Secretary and Portfolio Minister. Together these functions provide: - portfolio advice to the Minister for Health - public services to clients and the community - strategic leadership and direction to service delivery areas - corporate support services to service delivery areas - a framework of policies, processes, procedures and controls to assure the Government and the community that the objectives of the health system are being met.