Genomics Health Futures Mission Expert Advisory Committee

Professor Ian Frazer AC (Chair)

Professor Frazer is a scientist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Queensland. He is the previous Chief Executive Officer and Director of Research of the Translational Research Institute. He is now Chair of the Translation Research Institute Foundation Board and a member of the Council of National Health and Medical Research Council.

He also chairs the Australian Medical Research Advisory Board.

Board member/Director of Microba Pty Ltd, Jingang Medicine (Australia) Pty Ltd, Implicit Bioscience Limited, Immuno Services Pty Ltd.

Shareholder of health sector companies.

Professor Kathryn North AC

Professor North is the Director of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the David Danks Professor of Child Health Research at the University of Melbourne. Professor North is also lead, Australian Genomics Health Alliance.

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Professor Warwick Anderson

Professor Anderson is Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Department of History and the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney.

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Professor Christopher Barnett FRACP FCCMG

Professor Barnett is the Head of the Paediatric and Reproductive Genetics Unit at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in South Australia.

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Professor Christopher Goodnow FAA FRS MNAS

Professor Goodnow is the Executive Director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and holds the Bill and Patricia Ritchie Foundation Chair as Head of the Immunogenomics Laboratory at Garvan, and is Professor and Director of the Cellular Genomics Futures Institute at UNSW Sydney.

Executive Director of Garvan Institute.

Professor and Director of the Cellular Genomics. Futures Institute at UNSW.

Not-for-profit medical research funding recipient (2018-2024).

Professor Emma Kowal

Professor Kowal is a Professor of Anthropology in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University. Professor Kowal was Deputy Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics, ANU College of Health and Medicines, from 2013 to 2017.

Department of Health funding recipient for Chief Investigator/Coordinator at Australian Genomics - Summer Internship for Indigenous People in Genomics.

Ms Sue MacLeman FTSE

Ms MacLeman is the Chair and Non-Executive Director of MTPConnect, a MedTech and Pharma Growth Centre

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Ms Anne McKenzie AM

Ms McKenzie is the Manager of Community Engagement at the Telethon Kids Institute, Perth Children’s Hospital. Ms McKenzie is also a senior consumer representative for Consumers Health Forum of Australia and former Chair of Health Consumers Council WA

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Professor Tania Sorrell AM

Professor Sorrell is the Director, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity; Professor, Clinical Infectious Diseases; Deputy Dean (Clinical), Sydney Medical School; Director, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Institute for Medical Research.

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Professor Keith McNeil

Professor McNeil is the Assistant Deputy Director-General of the Clinical Excellence Division and Chief Clinical Information Officer at Queensland Health.

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Professor Dianne Nicol

Professor Nicol is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Centre for Law and Genetics at the University of Tasmania.

MRFF funding recipient.

Holds a research contract with the Department of Health.

Dr Simone Reynolds

Dr Reynolds is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Glycomics at Griffith University and Affiliate Scientist at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute. Dr Reynolds is an emerging leader in Indigenous health and one of the few Indigenous biomedical scientists in Australia.

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Professor Robyn Ward AM FAHM

Professor Ward is the Executive Dean and Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. Professor Ward is also chair, Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC).

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