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Membership will be diverse making sure there is a spread of gender, age, career stage, cultural background, that is reflective of the health system.

Representation	Examples
Health Workforce	Allied Health Professionals, Doctors, Nurses, Paramedics Non-clinical health workers Peer Workers and Liaison Officers Policy / planning and administrators Volunteers
Health Sector	Aged Care Alcohol and Other Drug Ambulance Disability Primary Health Health promotion / health protection / occupational medicine Mental Health Oral Health Pharmacy Private Health Services (practitioners, hospitals, insurance, funders)
Health Leaders	Future Health Leaders Forum Tasmanian Clinical Networks / Streams
Peak Health Organisations	Key groups and bodies providing knowledge and expertise across the health sector
Community	Individuals and organisations representing priority population groups (Aboriginal People, LGBTIQA+, Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD), youth, older adults) Local Government Neighbourhood Houses Specialists in IT / Law / Infrastructure / Regulation
Consumers, Lived Experience Advocates and Carers	Consumers and carers or support people (eg health, mental health, disability, palliative care) and may also be drawn from those identified in the community group above
Government	Department of Education Primary Health Tasmania TasTAFE
UTAS	University of Tasmania

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