We have about 650 staff with offices in Canberra, an office in Sydney and around 65 staff working remotely across Australia.

Our staff are skilled in:

  • statistical analysis
  • epidemiology and demography
  • information development
  • data management
  • communication
  • public sector administration.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) is headed by a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and is divided into 3 specialist divisions.

AIHW organisation chart [PDF 311kB]

Dr Zoran Bolevich, Chief Executive Officer and Board member

  • Board Secretary & Executive Officer (Amber Jefferson)

Health Insights Division

Louise Gates, Executive Director Health Insights

  • Centre for Disease Control (Miriam Lum On)

Michael Frost, Group Head – Primary & Community Care & Information Standards

  • Maternal & Perinatal Health (Rebecca Rodgers)
  • Medicare & Pharmaceutical Analytics (Jen Mayhew-Larsen)
  • MyHealth, Metadata & METEOR (George Bodilsen)
  • Pacific Health Information and Classifications Support (Vicki Bennett)
  • Perinatal Data (Louise Catanzariti)
  • Practice Incentives Program Quality Improvement (Conan Liu)
  • Primary Healthcare Analysis & Reporting (Brooke Macpherson)
  • Primary Healthcare Engagement & Data Development (Cassandra Gligora)
  • Sexual & Reproductive Health (Deanna Eldridge)

Bernice Cropper, Group Head – Health Systems & Performance

  • Ambulance harmonised evidence data (Joanna Groube)
  • Health Economics (Geoff Callaghan)
  • Hospitals Data (Brett Henderson)
  • Mental Health Analytics & Reporting Service (Jason Thomson)
  • Mental Health Information & Evidence Refinement & Validation (Shona Curvers)
  • National Health Reform Reporting (Katherine Faulks)
  • New Mental Health Service Information Systems (David Braddock)
  • Hospital & Dental Analysis & Reporting (Clara Jellie)
  • Suicide & Self-Harm Monitoring (Chris Killick-Moran)

Amy Young, Group Head – Population Health

  • Burden of Disease & Mortality (Michelle Gourley)
  • Cancer Data & Monitoring (Justin Harvey)
  • Cancer & Screening Linkage & Data Development (Sally Rayner)
  • Cardiovascular, Diabetes & Kidney (Heidi Dietz)
  • Chronic Conditions (Richard Hurley)
  • Injury Data (Jacqueline Rek)
  • Prevention & Environmental Health (Vanessa Prescott & Jenna Haddin, acting)
  • Screening Analysis & Monitoring (Moira Hewitt)


Community and First Nations Insights Division

Alistair Beasley, Executive Director Community & First Nations Insights

Anne-Marie Rushby, Group Head – Housing & Specialised Services

  • Child Welfare (Kindalin Masters, acting)
  • Defence & Veterans’ Insights (Paul Pham)
  • Housing & Homelessness Collection Operations (Dr Ailsa McManus)
  • Housing & Homelessness Collection Processing (James Mowle)
  • Housing & Homelessness Reporting & Development (Nikki Schroder)
  • Justice & Education (Amanda Donges)
  • Tobacco, Alcohol & Other Drugs (Dr Louise Tierney)

Louise York, Group Head – Community Services

  • Aged Care Data Improvement (Penny Siu)
  • Ageing & Aged Care Analysis (Leah Newman)
  • Disability (Kirsten Morgan, acting)
  • Dementia Data Analysis & Reporting (Thao Vu)
  • Dementia Data Improvement (Bronte O’Donell)
  • Family, Domestic & Sexual Violence (Sally Mills)
  • GEN & Aged Care Data (Dinesh Indraharan)

Dr Fadwa Al-Yaman, Group Head – First Nations Health & Welfare

  • Burden of Disease (Tracy Dixon)
  • Cultural Safety & Racism Metrics (Jessica Cargill)
  • Eye, Ear & Hearing Health (Elizabeth Hynes)
  • Health Performance Framework (Arusyak Sevoyan, acting)
  • Primary Care Reporting (Felicity Murdoch)
  • Regional Insights (Chun Oberst)
  • Spatial Analysis (Dr Martin Edvardsson)

Corporate Strategy and Performance Division

Richard Juckes, Executive Director Corporate Strategy & Performance

  • Advisory & Evaluation Services - Simone Brown
    • Advisory Projects - Dr Heather Swanston
  • General Counsel’s Office - Clare Sorensen
  • Statistical Leadership Office - David Whitelaw
  • Strategic Implementation Office - Richard Paul

Adrian Webster, Group Head – Data Governance & Integration

  • Data Linkage (Natalie Cooper)
  • Ethics & Privacy (Melinda Leake)
  • Linkage Governance Design (Caitlin Szigetvari)
  • Linkage Client Services (Rebecca Hurley)
  • Merging & Release (Paul Lukong)
  • Specialist Capabilities (Sachind Naidu)

Kim Riley, Group Head – Information & Communication Technology

  • Chief Information Technology Office (Kim Riley)
  • Cyber Security & Assurance (Ravi Pilla)
  • Data & Analytics Ecosystem Program (Prashanth Rayaprolu)
  • Infrastructure & operations (Sharafat Kabir)
  • IT Business Development & Delivery (Walter Sung, acting)
  • Modernisation Roadmap Delivery Program (Oleg Volguine)

Andrew Kettle, Group Head – Business, Communications & Publishing Services

  • Communications & Engagement (Rebecca Richter)
  • Finance & Commercial Services (Andrew Tharle)
  • Flagship Reporting (Melanie Dunford)
  • Human Resources Services & Facilities (Kelly Grandin)
  • People & Culture (Sandra Bailey)
  • Web, Publishing & Data Visualisation (Garth Powell, acting)