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Luan’s joined by Jo Watson, Deputy Chair of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, to explain how decisions about medicine subsidies are made and what they can mean for patients.


Jo decodes the alphabet soup of TGA, PBAC and PBS — including who does what, why a medicine might not be recommended for subsidy, and where patients and patient organisations can have a say.


This conversation was recorded earlier in 2026, and references to global pricing and tariffs should be heard in that context.


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Host & producer: Luan Lawrenson-Woods is an award-winning women’s health advocate, speaker and host of the Regarding Me and Rewritten Me podcasts.
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