Our people & structure

We have about 600 staff, most in Canberra and some in Sydney.

Our staff are skilled in:

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) is headed by a Chief Executive Office (CEO) and is divided into 10 specialist groups.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Mr Rob Heferen, Chief Executive Officer and Board member
- Board Secretary & Executive Officer (Ms Amber Jefferson)
- General Counsel (Ms Anne Anastasi)

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)

Mr Andrew Kettle, Group Head
- Financial & Commercial Services (Mr Andrew Tharle)
- People & Facilities (Ms Sandra Bailey)
- Chief Technology Office (Ms Kim Riley)
- IT Applications, Database & Security (Mr Simon Hilton)
- IT Business & Development (Mr Ed Purrer)
- IT Operations & Platforms (Mr Gavin Thomson)

Ms Louise York, Group Head
- Aged Care Data Improvement (Ms Penny Sui)
- Ageing & Aged Care (Ms Leah Newman and Mr Dinesh Indraharan, acting)
- Disability (Mr Sam Chambers, acting)
- Family, Domestic & Sexual Violence (Ms Sally Mills)
- National Disability Data Asset (Ms Rebecca Hurley)

Mr Michael Frost, Group Head
- Communications & Engagement (Ms Rebecca Richter)
- Metadata, Information Management & Classifications (Ms Vicki Bennett)
- My Health Record Data (Mr George Bodilsen)
- Practice Incentives Program Quality Improvement (Mr Conan Liu)
- Primary Health Care Data Development (Ms Jenna Haddin, acting)
- Web, Publishing & Data Visualisation (Ms Cherie McLean)

Natalie Cooper, acting Group Head
- Data Linkage Services (Mr David Braddock)
- Ethics & Privacy (Ms Katy Wilson, acting)
- Governance & Client Services (Ms Alice Crisp, acting)
- National Integrated Health Services Information (NIHSI) & National Health Data Hub (NHDH) (Ms Caitlin Szigetvari)

Mr Brett Henderson, acting Group Head
- Analysis Support (Ms Jen Mayhew-Larsen)
- Health Economics (Mr Geoff Callaghan)
- Hospitals Data (Mr Vara Goluguri, acting)
- Injuries & System Surveillance (Dr Heather Swanston)
- Performance Analysis & Reporting (Ms Clara Jellie)

Dr Gabrielle Phillips, Group Head
- Child Welfare (Ms Anne-Marie Rushby)
- Housing & Homelessness Collection Operations (Mr Michael Robetson, acting)
- 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)

Dr Fadwa Al-Yaman, Group Head
- Burden of Disease (Ms Tracy Dixon)
- Eye, Ear & Hearing Health (Ms Elizabeth Hynes)
- Health Performance Framework (Ms Jessica Cargill)
- Mental Health & Suicide Prevention (Ms Pooja Chowdhary, acting)
- Primary Care Reporting (Ms Felicity Murdoch)
- Regional Insights (Ms Chun Oberst, acting)
- Research & Modelling (Ms Arusyak Sevoyan, acting)
- Spatial Analysis (Dr Martin Edvardsson)

Ms Louise Gates, Group Head
- Burden of Disease & Mortality (Ms Michelle Gourley)
- Cancer Data & Monitoring (Mr Justin Harvey)
- Cardiovascular, Diabetes & Kidney (Ms Miriam Lum On and Ms Heidi Dietz, acting)
- Chronic Conditions (Ms Katherine Faulks)
- Dementia Data Analysis & Reporting (Ms Melinda Leake)
- Dementia Data Improvement (Ms Melanie Dunford)
- Population Monitoring & COVID-19 Data (Ms Vanessa D'Souza, acting)
- Prevention & Environmental Health (Dr Vanessa Prescott)
- Screening Analysis & Monitoring (Ms Moira Hewitt)

Ms Bernice Cropper, acting Group Head
- Defence & Veterans' Insights (Mr Paul Pham)
- Maternal & Perinatal Health (Ms Jacqueline Rek, acting)
- Perinatal Data (Ms Deanna Eldridge, Ms Louise Catanzariti, acting)
- Specialist Capabilities (Ms Karen Higgins, acting)