The AIHW senior staff lead more than 300 staff in fulfilling the AIHW’s functions.
David Kalisch has been the Director (CEO) of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare since December 2010.
Mr Kalisch is an economist with around 30 years’ experience across 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. His various roles have included policy development, research and analysis and public sector program management.
His professional experience has included appointments as a Commissioner at the Productivity Commission, Deputy Secretary in the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, and senior executive roles in the Department of Family and Community Services, Social Security and Prime Minister and Cabinet. He has also worked as Principal Advisor to a Commonwealth Minister for Social Security and at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris.
Alison Verhoeven is responsible for corporate and information governance, media and communications, publishing and online communications.
Ms Verhoeven holds an MBA with a specialisation in International Business, a Master of Letters, a Graduate Diploma in Education, and a Bachelor of Arts. She has broad experience in corporate communications, having worked in both the private and public sector in Australia and in the Asia-Pacific region.
Andrew Kettle is responsible for leading the management of the Institute’s finances, human resources, information and communications technology and office accommodation. He works closely with both internal and external stakeholders to deliver services that help achieve corporate objectives and value for money.
Mr Kettle qualified as a chartered accountant in the United Kingdom. He has worked as a professional accountant for Coopers & Lybrand in Canada and Australia and was most recently the chief financial officer at the Australian Fisheries Management Authority before joining the Institute in 2006.
Brent Diverty is responsible for the Institute’s data collection, development and reporting activities and stakeholder relationships in the areas of mental health, palliative care, alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs, aging and aged care, functioning and disability, child welfare and prisoner health. He also has responsibility for the Institute’s flagship publication Australia’s Welfare 2011.
Mr Diverty’s professional experience includes data collection, data and information standards, business intelligence tools and applications, clinical outcomes measurement, data linkage and privacy principles. Mr Diverty has significant experience on both the supply and demand sides of data and information, designing and managing data collection and reporting systems and applications to meet the information needs of a diverse range of stakeholders. He has previously worked at Statistics Canada, in management consulting firms, and at the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
Fadwa Al-Yaman is responsible for the Institute’s data collection, development, reporting activities and stakeholder relationships in the areas of the health and welfare of mothers, children, youth and families, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. She also has responsibility for the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse and the online Indigenous observatory.
Dr Al-Yaman has wide ranging experience in statistical analysis and reporting, demographic techniques, data development, data quality assessment and improvement activities, and in building strong collaborative relationships with key stakeholders. She has a strong research background in health and a keen interest in knowledge translation and the link between research, policy and practice. She holds a PhD in Immunology from the John Curtin School of Medical Research and a Masters of Population Studies from the ANU. Dr Al-Yaman was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 1990 and the Australian Public Service Medal in 2008.
Geoff Neideck is responsible for the institute’s data collections and data development projects on housing and homelessness.
Mr Neideck has extensive experience in statistics and data ranging across statistical conceptual and operational development, survey and administrative data collection and major statistical infrastructure projects. He has managed large national economic and social statistics programs at the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and has also worked with Statistics Canada.
Jenny Hargreaves is responsible for developing, compiling, analysing and disseminating statistical information on Australia's hospitals, the safety and quality of health care, and health sector performance indicators.
Ms Hargreaves has also been responsible for the Institute's data on Australia's hospital admitted patients, statistics for Australia’s mental health services, health and welfare expenditure, and health and community services workforce. She has previously held professional and research positions in communicable disease surveillance at the Department of Health and Ageing, in the Therapeutic Goods Administration and at the Australian National University.
Teresa Dickinson is responsible for enabling strong statistical practice across the Institute and for spearheading key initiatives such as work on data linkage, data standards and data development. This work underpins the AIHW’s strength as a statistical agency, enables stringent privacy controls and ensures high quality statistical results.
Ms Dickinson has wide ranging experience in adding value to organisations by driving the use of evidence based decision making. She has a Masters in Statistics and an MBA. Her career spans statistical and corporate leadership roles in both government and the private sector, including statistical research and leadership roles with CSIRO, and ABS.
Warren Richter is responsible for the ICT and Business Transformation Program. This includes the delivery of new IT applications and the formulation and implementation of IT strategy and architecture as well as gaining support for and implementing, significant business improvements and requirements including end-to-end data management, across the Institute.
Mr Richter’s professional experience includes the design and development of statistical infrastructure, including data and metadata management and online analytical processing software, as well as long experience as a chief executive in the private sector and as a senior executive in the public sector. He holds Master of Science and Bachelor of Economics degrees.