Role
The committee provides expert advice on the health care needs of people with disability, their families and the disability service sector. This includes access to COVID-19 screening, prevention and health care.
This advice helped to develop the Management and Operational Plan for COVID-19 for People with Disability. The committee is overseeing the plan’s implementation.
Members
The committee includes experts from various backgrounds including:
- people with lived experience
- disability organisations
- the disability service sector
- the research sector
- the health care sector, including medical practitioners, allied health professionals and nursing
- Australian Government officials
- state and territory government officials
Representatives
- Allied Health Professions Australia
- Australian Association of Developmental Disability Medicine
- Australian Government Department of Social Services
- Australian Human Rights Commission
- Council for Intellectual Disability
- Department of Developmental Disability Psychiatry, University of New South Wales
- First Peoples Disability Network
- Get Skilled Access
- Inclusion Australia
- Melbourne Disability Institute, University of Melbourne
- National Disability Insurance Agency
- NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
- Northcott
- Office for Disability ACT
- People with Disability Australia
- people with lived experiences of being a carer
- Victorian Disability Advisory Council
Meetings
The committee regularly to discuss COVID-19 issues relevant to people with disability. The committee has also participated in several Roundtable discussions with a broader range of stakeholders across the disability sector.
Communiques
Advisory Committee on Health Emergency Response to Coronavirus (COVID-19) for People with Disability – Communiques
Resources
- Lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic – Advisory Committee on the Health Emergency Response to COVID-19 for People with Disability
- What we learned about helping people with disability during COVID-19 – Easy Read
- Report on the lessons learned by the Advisory Committee on the Health Emergency Response to COVID-19 for People with Disability – Data companion
Related committees or groups
The committee reports to the Chief Medical Officer, and regularly informs the:
Find out more
Read our coronavirus (COVID-19) advice for people with disability.
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