Show Notes
In this episode of the One Health Podcast, Dorian Broomhall, Manager of Culture & Wellbeing, gets to know Laura Pyszkowski, outgoing A/Director of the Office of the Secretary, and soon-to-be Executive Director of Nursing / Director of Services for the Department’s home and community care programs. In our conversation, Laura talks about times in her life she had decided to change direction and about how that has taken from Launceston to Sydney, Melbourne, and London. She speaks about her d...
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