We have about 600 staff, most in Canberra and some in Sydney.
Our staff are skilled in:
- statistical analysis
- epidemiology and demography
- information development
- data management
- communication
- public sector administration.
AIHW is headed by a CEO and is divided into ten specialist groups.
AIHW organisation chart (101kB, A3 PDF)
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Deputy CEO Group
- Matthew James, Deputy Chief Executive Officer
- Centrelink Strategies (Ms Sushma Mathur)
- Flagship Reporting (Ms Simone Brown)
- Mental Health Analytics & Reporting Service (MHARS) (Mr Jason Thomson)
- Mental Health Information & Evidence Refinement & Validation (MHINERVA) (Ms Amy Young)
- Suicide & Self-harm Monitoring (Mr Chris Killick-Moran)
Business & Communication Group
- Mr Andrew Kettle, Group Head
- Financial & Commercial Services (Mr Andrew Tharle)
- People & Facilities (Ms Sandra Bailey)
- Communications & Engagement (Ms Rebecca Richter)
- Web, Publishing & Data Visualisation (Mr Peter Jean, Acting)
Community Services Group
- Ms Louise York, Group Head
- Aged Care Data Improvement (Ms Melinda Leake)
- Ageing & Aged Care (Ms Leah Newman)
- Family, Domestic & Sexual Violence (Ms Sally Mills)
- Disability (Mr David Braddock)
- National Disability Data Asset (Ms Rebecca Hurley)
Data Governance Group
- Mr Michael Frost, Group Head
- Ethics, Privacy & Legal (Ms Susan Eggers)
- Executive (Ms Amber Jefferson)
- Metadata, Information Management & Classifications (Ms Vicki Bennett)
- My Health Record Data (Mr George Bodlisen)
- Practice Incentives Program Quality Improvement (Mr Conan Liu)
- Primary Health Care Data Development (Ms Jenna Haddin, Acting)
- Specialist Capabilities (Ms Karen Higgins, Acting)
Data Strategies & Discovery Group
- Fleur de Crespigny, Group Head
- Data Linkage Services (Mr Andrew Powierski Acting)
- Environments, NIHSI & Data Strategies (Ms Caitlin Szigetvari)
- Defence & Veteran Suicide Monitoring (Mr Paul Pham)
- Governance and Client Services (Ms Natalie Cooper)
- Maternal & Perinatal Health (Ms Bernice Cropper)
- Perinatal Data (Ms Louise Catanzariti, Ms Deanna Eldridge)
- Veterans Insights & Projects (Ms Vanessa D’Souza, Acting)
- Linkage Systems and Infrastructure (Dr Elena Ougrinovski, Acting)
Health Systems Group
- Dr Adrian Webster, Group Head
- Analysis Support (Ms Jen Mayhew-Larsen)
- Health Economics (Mr Geoff Callaghan)
- Hospitals Data (Mr Brett Henderson)
- Injuries & System Surveillance (Dr Heather Swanston)
- Performance Analysis & Reporting (Ms Clara Jellie)
Housing & Specialised Services Group
- Dr Gabrielle Phillips, Group Head
- Child Welfare (Ms Anne-Marie Rushby)
- Housing & Homelessness Collection Operations (Ms Penny Siu)
- Housing & Homelessness Collection Processing (Ms Joanne Groube)
- Housing & Homelessness Reporting & Development (Ms Nikki Schroder)
- Justice & Education (Ms Amanda Donges)
- Tobacco, Alcohol & Other Drugs (Dr Louise Tierney)
Indigenous Group
- Dr Fadwa Al-Yaman, Group Head
- Indigenous Burden of Disease (Ms Tracy Dixon)
- Indigenous Data Improvements (Ms Elizabeth Hynes)
- Indigenous Health Performance Framework (Ms Jessica Cargill)
- Indigenous Mental Health & Suicide Prevention (Ms Pooja Chowdhary, Acting)
- Indigenous Primary Care Reporting (Ms Felicity Murdoch)
- Indigenous Spatial Analysis (Dr Martin Edvardsson)
- Regional Insights (Ms Chun Oberst, Acting)
- Research Modelling (Dr Prem Thapa, Acting)
Information & Communication Technology Group
- Ms Kim Riley, Acting Chief Technology Officer
- Business & Development (Mr Ed Purrer)
- Information Technology Security (Mr Simon Hilton)
- Operations & Platforms (Mr Gavin Thomson)
- Strategies & Architecture (Mr Muhammad Hussain, Acting)
Population Health Group
- Mr Richard Juckes, Group Head
- Burden of Disease & Mortality (Ms Michelle Gourley)
- Cancer Data & Monitoring (Mr Justin Harvey)
- Cardiovascular, Diabetes & Kidney (Ms Miriam Lum On)
- Chronic Conditions (Ms Katherine Faulks)
- Population Monitoring & COVID-19 Data (Ms Claire Sparke)
- Dementia (Melanie Dunford, Acting)
- Prevention & Environmental Health (Dr Vanessa Prescott)
- Screening Analysis & Monitoring (Ms Moira Hewitt)