Members of the AIHW Board as at 30 June 2012
Andrew Refshauge MB, BS, FAICD
Chair
Non-executive Director
Term: 19 July 2011 – 18 July 2014
Dr Refshauge was appointed Chair of the AIHW Board in 2010. He is a former deputy premier and treasurer of NSW, and has also held the positions of ministers for health, Aboriginal affairs, planning, housing, education and training, and state development. Dr Refshauge is Chair of CareFlight (NSW) and of the Investment Committee of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council, and from July 2012 will become chair of the Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency. He is a director of the Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency, Family Care Medical Services Ltd and the Nelune Foundation. He is a former medical practitioner at the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern, Sydney.
David Kalisch BEc (Hons), MAICD
Director, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Executive Director
Term: since December 2010
Mr Kalisch was appointed Director (Chief Executive Officer) of the AIHW in December 2010. He is an economist with 30 years’ experience in a range of social policy issues, including labour markets, employment programs, retirement incomes, welfare policy and programs, family and children’s services, and health policy. This has included roles in policy development, research and analysis, and public sector program management, generally in the Australian Government.
His recent work experience has included appointments as a commissioner at the Productivity Commission, deputy secretary in the Department of Health and Ageing, and senior executive roles in the departments of Family and Community Services, Social Security, and Prime Minister and Cabinet. Mr Kalisch has also worked in a number of divisions of the OECD in Paris, and in the Australian Delegation to the OECD. He has previously been a board member of the Australian Institute of Family Studies and the National Blood Authority.
David Filby BA (Hons), PhD, PSM
Nominee of the Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council
Non-executive Director
Term: 12 August 2009 – 11 August 2012
Dr Filby is an executive consultant to the Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council and the Department of Health in South Australia. He has worked for over 30 years in the public health sector,
a number of those as executive director of the Department of Health SA and as the deputy
director-general in Queensland Health. He is a board member of the National Health Performance Authority and the Chair of Helping Hand Aged Care in South Australia.
James Moore BA (Hons), GradDipAcc
Nominee of the Community and Disability Services Ministers’ Advisory Council
Non-executive Director
Term: 30 June 2011 – 29 June 2014
Mr Moore is a career public servant who has worked for the Australian and NSW governments since 1983. He is the Director-General of the NSW Department of Family and Community Services, having previously held leadership positions in ageing, disability and home care, including chief executive and deputy director-general. Mr Moore has led a range of human services reforms in NSW, including the state’s 10-year plan for disability services, and the roll out of person-centred planning and individualised funding arrangements for people with disability. In the Australian Public Service he has implemented regulatory reforms, directed research and data functions and reform packages, and managed Commonwealth–state relations in areas such as social security, employment, education and youth affairs, and occupational health and safety. Mr Moore has also worked as a consultant to the OECD
and as a chief of staff to a federal minister.
Mercia Bresnehan BEd
Representative of state housing departments
Non-executive Director
Term: 13 June 2012 – 12 September 2012 (acting arrangement)
Ms Bresnehan is Deputy Secretary in the Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services where she is responsible for disability, housing, community services and strategic relationships with the not-for-profit sector. Her previous experience has been in education, first as a teacher and then as senior consultant in curriculum development and student support services. Ms Bresnehan has worked as a senior policy officer in the Department of Premier and Cabinet and the Department of Health where she held executive positions in health service planning, population health and primary health care. Ms Bresnehan was executive director of Housing Tasmania for 10 years and is currently Chair of the government-owned Tasmanian Affordable Housing Company. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has sat on a number of community sector boards. She has represented the Housing Minister’s Advisory Committee as a director of the Australian Housing Urban Research Institute.
Brian Pink BCom
Australian Statistician, ABS
Non-executive Director
Term: Ex-officio appointment
Mr Pink is the Australian Statistician and head of the ABS, having taken up this appointment in March 2007. His career in official statistics started in Australia with the then Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics in Sydney in 1966 and has over the intervening years taken him to Canberra, Perth and most recently to Wellington where he was Government Statistician and Chief Executive of Statistics New Zealand from 2000 to 2007. Mr Pink is a member of the OECD Committee on Statistics, Chair of the Statistics Committee of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Vice-chair of the United Nations Statistical Commission, an ex officio member of the Australian Statistics Advisory Council and a commissioner in the Australian Electoral Commission. He has been instrumental in championing a significant information management transformation program to prepare the ABS, the National Statistics Service and the international statistical community to meet the growing challenges of providing relevant information to policy makers, governments and businesses.
Kerry Flanagan BA
Representing Ms Jane Halton, Secretary, DoHA
Non-executive Director
Term: Ex-officio appointment
Ms Flanagan is a Deputy Secretary in the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, with oversight of the portfolio strategies, health workforce, and acute care divisions, the Strategy Policy Unit and the Tasmanian State Office. Ms Flanagan is responsible for policy and program aspects of acute care, including hospitals and hospital-related aspects of health reform, health workforce and dental care. She is Chair of the Finance Risk and Security Committee and the Flexible Funds Board, and is a member of the Health Workforce Principal Committee, the Hospital Principal Committee, the Jurisdictional Advisory Committees of the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, and the National Health Performance Authority. She has worked in senior executive roles in the Australian Public Service for the past 18 years (as head of the Office for Women and in the Department of Family and Community Services). Ms Flanagan has worked for the World Bank in Washington DC on pension and social assistance systems in developing countries and for a number of Australian Government departments including finance, housing and the Treasury.
Samantha Page BA, MA
Ministerial nominee representing consumers of welfare services
Non-executive Director
Term: 7 August 2011 – 6 August 2014
From 2007 to July 2012, Ms Page was executive director of Family Relationship Services Australia. In July 2012, she took up the position of Chief Executive Officer with Early Childhood Australia. Ms Page is currently a board member for the Australian Council of Social Service and Parentline ACT Inc. She is also a member of the ACT Child & Young People Death Review Committee.
Lyn Roberts, AM Dip ASc, BA (Hons), PhD
Ministerial nominee with expertise in research into public health issues
Non-executive Director
Term: 12 November 2009 – 11 November 2012
Dr Roberts is the Chief Executive Officer (National) of the National Heart Foundation of Australia and has held this position since 2001. She was vice-president of the World Heart Federation from 2009 to 2010 and is a member of a number of committees including the Australian National Preventive Health Agency Advisory Council and the Australian Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance.
David Stanton BEc (Hons), MSc
Ministerial nominee
Non-executive Director
Term: 12 November 2009 – 11 November 2012
Mr Stanton is a Visiting Fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. He is also a consultant social security planner and policy analyst with Stanton Strategic Solutions. He was deputy chair of the Commonwealth Ministerial Task Force and Reference Group on Child Support and has been a consultant to the Australian National Audit Office. He has previously worked in the Australian Public Service, including as director of the Australian Institute of Family Studies and in various positions in the then Department of Social Security and the ABS.
Greg Stewart MBBS, MPH, FRACMA, FAFPHM
Ministerial nominee
Non-executive Director
Terms: 1 September 2006 – 31 August 2009; 12 November 2009 – 11 November 2012
Dr Stewart is a public health physician and is Director of Operations, Ambulatory and Primary Health Care, Sydney South East Local Health District. He is a foundation fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine and is currently president-elect of the faculty. He is also a member of the board of Sydney Water. His previous experience includes appointments as director of Population Health, Planning and Performance, Sydney South West Area Health Service; deputy director-general, Population Health, NSW Health and NSW Chief Health Officer; chief executive officer, Wentworth Area Health Service; director of Health Services, Central Sydney Area Health Service; and director of South Western Sydney Area Health Service Public Health Unit.
Jessica Cumming BComm, LLB (Hons)
Staff-elected representative
Term: 19 July 2011 – 18 July 2012
Ms Cumming works in the Communications, Media and Marketing Unit in the AIHW. She is involved in the management of the AIHW’s media and publications release program, media monitoring, and the implementation of AIHW policies and procedures relating to media and communications.
Members of the AIHW Ethics Committee as at 30 June 2012
Ching Choi BA, PhD
Chair
Terms: 1 July 2007 – 30 June 2010; 1 July 2010 – 30 June 2013
Dr Choi was appointed Chair of the AIHW Ethics Committee in 2007. He is Associate Professor, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, and an Adjunct Associate Professor, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University. Dr Choi is a member of the Scientific Reference Group, for the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse, and a consultant to the AIHW on various demographic issues. He has worked for the AIHW, the ABS and the Australian Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. Dr Choi has published a number of papers and reports on various demographic, health and welfare topics.
Malcolm Sim BMedSc, MBBS, MSc (Lond), GDipOccHyg, PhD, FAFOM (RACP), FAFPHM (RACP), FFOM (RCP)
Member representing a person with knowledge of and current experience in the areas of research
Terms: 29 June 2007 – 28 June 2010; 29 June 2010 – 30 June 2013
Professor Sim is an occupational and public health physician and is Director of the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. He is a chief investigator for several national and international studies investigating the role of workplace and environmental hazards in chronic diseases, such as cancer, respiratory disease and musculoskeletal disorders, as well as being chief investigator for a 5-year NHMRC Public Health Capacity Building Grant. Professor Sim has published over 140 research papers in refereed journals and is deputy editor for Occupational and Environmental Medicine and an associate editor for the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health. He is an elected member of the Epidemiology Subcommittee of the International Commission on Occupational Health and chair of its Scientific Committee on Occupational Medicine. He has strong international research links, including a current project with the Chinese National Institute for Occupational Health and Poison Control.
David Garratt
Member representing general community attitudes
Term: 26 March 2010 – 25 March 2013
Mr Garratt is a retired principal. His last appointment was as principal of Daramalan College, Canberra, from which he retired in 2008. He has extensive experience in education in the ACT and has served on committees administering government programs. Mr Garratt was on the founding boards of two schools, St Francis Xavier and Orana School for Rudolf Steiner Education, and was chair of the latter. He was a community representative on the Dickson Neighbourhood Planning Group. Mr Garratt is a board member of the Northside Community Service in Canberra and the Dialogue Australasia Network, and is currently chair of the board of the National Folk Festival.
Camilla Webster BA (Hons), LLB, LLM
Member who is a lawyer
Term: 25 March 2010 – 24 March 2013
Ms Webster is a lawyer. She has worked for various Commonwealth government agencies as specialist adviser on legislation and consultant drafter of legislative instruments. Ms Webster is currently engaged by the Australian Government Solicitor and the Department of Infastructure on a major legislative project.
Angela McLean MBBS, Dip RACOG, MPH, FAFPHM (RACP), MRepMed
Member representing a person with knowledge of, and current experience in, the professional care, counselling or treatment of people
Term: 30 August 2011 – 29 August 2014
Dr McLean is a public health physician who has worked in various fields of medical practice including general practice, screening mammography, emergency management and environmental medicine. Currently she works as a reproductive medical practitioner at Repromed in Adelaide, assisting couples with infertility to achieve pregnancy. She is also a clinical lecturer in the School of Population Health
and Clinical Practice at the University of Adelaide with experience in teaching risk communication.
Dr McLean is a member of the SA Branch Regional Committee of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine and has served on various other committees including the South Australian Public and Environmental Health Council and Asbestos Advisory Committee.
Erin Keleher BOT, MEdLeadMgmt
Member representing the Registrars of Births, Deaths and Marriages
Term: Ex-officio appointment
Ms Keleher is the Registrar of the Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages. She has had extensive experience in government (state and federal), non-government and private sectors, in areas as diverse as management, legislative development and regulation, training and development, workplace rehabilitation, policy advice, state and federal program management and clinical practice.
Ms Keleher has a particular interest in research and evaluation.
Margaret Reynolds BA, Dip Special Ed
Member representing general community attitudes
Term: 17 August 2011 – 16 August 2014
Ms Reynolds has a background in education, public policy and human rights advocacy and has served in various local government roles. She served as a Senator for Queensland for sixteen years and, for periods during that time, was Minister for Local Government and Regional Development and Minister assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women, and represented the Minister for Immigration in the Senate. She has also served as the Australian Government representative on the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (1991–1996), Chair of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (1993–2004) and National President of the United Nations Association of Australia (1999–2005). Currently she is a member of the Expert Panel on Quality Safeguards and Standards for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the National Ministerial Council for People with Disabilities and Carers and the Northern Territory Shires Financial Sustainability Taskforce. She has lectured in human rights and international relations at the University of Queensland, worked as Tasmanian State Manager for National Disability Services and as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Tasmania and authored a political memoir. Her interests are reflected in all these roles but she is particularly interested in policy and practice relating to immigration, women, citizenship, social inclusion and disability services (including from an historical perspective for the latter).
James Barr BA (Hons), BTheol (Hons), MAppSci
Member who is a minister of religion
Terms: 12 December 2008 – 11 December 2011; 12 December 2011 – 11 December 2014
Reverend Barr has a background in leadership development and pastoral and community work. His work has ranged from community organising in third-world slums to consulting with companies and government agencies in the field of corporate ethics and leadership development. An ordained Baptist minister, he has been minister of the Collins Street Baptist Church, Melbourne, (where he was founding director of the Urban Mission Unit, now Urban Seed), director of the Zadok Institute for Christianity and Society, pastoral associate with Melbourne Citymission and senior minister of the Canberra Baptist Church. He is a former member of the Human Research Ethics Committee of RMIT University and is currently co-minister of the Melbourne Welsh Church.
David Kalisch BEc (Hons), MAICD
Director, AIHW
Terms: AIHW Director since December 2010
Information about Mr Kalisch is provided in his entry under Members of the AIHW Board.