Kathrine Morgan-Wicks

One Health Podcast

This was released in March 2024. Kathrine Morgan-Wicks is now the Secretary of the Department of Premier and Cabinet and Head of State Service.
In this first series of the One Health Podcast, Dorian Broomhall (Manager of Culture & Wellbeing) gets to know executives from across the Department of Health in lutruwita/Tasmania.

In episode 1, we hear from Kathrine Morgan-Wicks, the Secretary of the Department of Health.

She tells us how her career path has shifted across state borders and sectors.

She discusses the lessons she has learned along the way, such as the importance of resilience, perspective, adaptability, and connectedness.

We also hear her thoughts on the Department’s CARE Values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence.

Every episode opens with the same question, which we’ve borrowed from the excellent Department for Education, Children and Young People podcast, Teach Learn Live.
In the coming weeks, look out for our conversations with Michelle Searle, Jordan Emery, Fiona Lieutier, Craig Jeffrey, Shane Gregory, Paula Hyland, Andrew Hargrave, Francine Douce and Dale Webster. We’ll meet more executives in a future series.

Timecode guide
1:28 Early Life

4:33 Building resilience and perspective

5:53 Becoming Tasmanian

8:28 Changing paths

13:10 Creating connections

17:23 COVID and being adaptive

21:13 CARE Values