Mr Tobias Speare

Lecturer in Remote Pharmacy

College of Medicine and Public Health

+61 8 8951 4716

tobias.speare@flinders.edu.au

Centre for Remote Health, Alice Springs

PO Box 4066, Alice Springs 0871, Northern Territory

Tobias Speare is the pharmacy academic at the Centre for Remote Health, a joint University Department of Rural Health of Flinders University and Charles Darwin University. Toby completed his pharmacy degree at James Cook University in Townsville, North Queensland, in 2004. Since this time, he has worked in a variety of pharmacy practice, including clinical pharmacy, retail pharmacy, education and mentoring, and program development, in rural, remote and metropolitan Australia and internationally, in New Zealand and Scotland. Toby possesses a keen interest in improving health care in a holistic fashion, and completed a Master of Public Health in 2012.

Toby arrived in Alice Springs to work as a clinical pharmacist at Alice Springs Hospital in August 2013, before taking up the position of pharmacy academic at the Centre for Remote Health in November 2013 to pursue the goal of improving the Quality Use of Medicines through education and research.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Pharmacy

Master of Public Health

Teaching interests

I have a keen interest in improving Quality Use of Medicines through education. I co-ordinate a number of topics in the Remote Health Practice program and an online medicines safety short course- Pharmacotherapeutics for Remote Area Nurses.

Professional engagement

I am involved with several committees and boards that influence the delivery of health care in NT and Australia:

Pharmaceutical Society of Australia SA/NT Branch Committee: July 2021- current.
Northern Territory Clinical Senate member: November 2017-current.
NT PHN Central Australian Clinical Council member: November 2018-current.
Central Australian Human Research Ethics Committee member: April 2014- August 2015, April 2017-current.
NT PHN Health Literacy Integration Forum member: October 2018-current.
Chair Pharmacy Editorial Working Group-Remote Primary Health Care Manuals: January 2014-current.
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia- Project Advisory Group member: Guidelines for Medication Management for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People: January 2022-current.
Central Australian Rural Practitioner's Association (Treasurer): June 2017-October 2021.
NT Aboriginal Health Forum Medicines Governance Working Group member: March 2019-March 2020.
NT Emergency Services volunteer: October 2019-current.