Doctor NOS
This is a non-profit podcast hosted by Dr. Maple Goh providing career guidance, leadership and role-modelling to resident doctors for medical and non-medical pathways. The main objectives are to increase accessibility to different careers within medicine, and to promote visibility of our marginalised and minority doctors. This podcast was funded by the New Zealand Resident Doctors Association (NZRDA) Education Trust. Drops every Friday (NZT).
Doctor NOS
78 | Dr. Ashley Bloomfield on leadership in a pandemic & the Director General
Dr. Ashley Bloomfield is a public health physician and leader, having been the chief advisor of public health in Ministry of Health New Zealand, before moving to become the Director of Services of Population Health across the Wellington District Health Boards, then Chief Executive at Hutt Valley DHB. He is best known as our immediate former Director-General of Health, famed for his COVID response and compassion in his communication.
In this episode, we discuss his journey into public health and the various leadership roles he has held before his position as Director General. We discuss his gap year, his time locuming in the UK, before finally returning to NZ for training. He unpacks his lessons leading before and during the pandemic, challenges of being Director General, and what work-life balance and resilience means to him.
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