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 eleven specialist groups.

AIHW organisation chart (70KB, A3 PDF)

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Business & Communication Group 

  • Mr Andrew Kettle, Group Head
  • Financial & Commercial Services (Mr Andrew Tharle)
  • People & Facilities (Ms Sandra Bailey) 
  • Strategic Communication & Stakeholder Engagement (Ms Rebecca Richter)
  • Web, Publishing & Data Visualisation (Ms Cherie McLean)

Community Services Group 

  • Ms Louise York, Group Head  
  • Aged Care Data Improvement (Ms Melinda Leake)
  • Ageing & Aged Care (Dr Nick Von Sanden)
  • Children & Families (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 & METeOR (Ms Vicki Bennett)
  • My Health Record Data (Mr George Bodlisen)
  • National Integrated Health Service Information (Mr George Bodlisen)
  • Parliamentary, Risk & Information Management (Ms Tulip Penney)

Data Strategies & Integration Group

  • Mr Geoff Neideck, Group Head 
  • Community Services & Housing Linkage (Dr Elena Ougrinovski, Acting)
  • Data Strategies (Ms Kirsty Leslie)
  • Health Linkage (Ms Natalie Cooper)
  • Specialist Capabilities (Dr Vanessa Prescott)

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 Gary Hanson)
  • Mental Health Evidence Base Improvement (MHEBI) (Ms Amy Young)
  • Suicide & Self-harm Monitoring (Mr Chris Killick-Moran)

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)
  • Dementia (Dr Fleur de Crespigny)
  • Population Health (Ms Claire Sparke)
  • Screening Analysis & Monitoring (Ms Moira Hewitt)
  • COVID-19 Register Development (Ms Claire Sparke)

Housing & Specialised Services Group 

  • Dr Gabrielle Phillips, Group Head
  • Child Welfare (Ms Frances Gibson, Acting)
  • Housing & Homelessness Collection Operations (Ms Penny Siu)
  • Housing & Homelessness Collection Processing (Ms Sarah Jones, Acting)
  • Housing & Homelessness Reporting & Development (Ms Nikki Schroder)
  • Justice & Education (Ms Kirsten Morgan, Acting)
  • Tobacco, Alcohol & Other Drugs (Dr Louise Tierney)

Health Systems Group

  • Dr Adrian Webster, Group Head
  • Analysis Support (Ms Jen Mayhew-Larsen)
  • Economics, Expenditure & Medicare (Mr Jason Thomson)
  • Hospitals Data (Mr Brett Henderson)
  • Injuries & System Surveillance (Ms Marissa Veld)
  • Performance Analysis & Reporting (Ms Clara Jellie)
  • Performance Indicators & Quality (Dr Heather Swanston)

Information & Communication Technology Group

  • Mr Mat Rogers, Chief Technology Officer
  • Business & Development (Mr Graeme Morris, Acting) 
  • Operations & Security (Mr Charlie Drummond)
  • Strategies & Architecture (Mr Michael Metz)

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, Acting)
  • Indigenous Mental Health & Suicide Prevention (Dr Samantha Bricknell)
  • Indigenous Primary Care Reporting (Ms Felicity Murdoch)
  • Indigenous Spatial Analysis (Dr Martin Edvardsson)

Primary, Maternal, Veterans  & First Responders Group 

  • Ms Louise Gates, Group Head 
  • Defence & Veteran Suicide Monitoring (Mr Paul Pham)
  • Maternal & Perinatal Health (Ms Bernice Cropper)
  • Practice Incentives Program Quality Improvement (Mr Conan Liu)
  • Primary Health Care Data Asset (Ms Mardi Ellis)
  • Veterans' & First Responders' Health & Welfare (Ms Caitlin Szigetvari)