Health Roadmap Working Group

Role

The role of the Health Roadmap Working Group is to:

provide advice and oversee the roadmap’s development
ensure roadmap development is conducted in an inclusive way.

The working group is also supporting the National Autism Strategy Oversight Council (established by the Department of Social Services), by focusing on the strategy’s key health and mental health outcomes.

Chair and Deputy Co-chairs

Name	Organisation being represented
Amber Shuhyta, Chair	Primary Care Division, Department of Health and Aged Care
Ms Geraldine Robertson, Deputy Co-Chair	Autistic individual member
Dr Melanie Heyworth, Deputy Co-Chair	Autistic individual member
Mr Andrew Davis, Deputy Co-Chair	Autism Cooperative Research Centre
Professor Nick Lennox, Deputy Co-Chair	Senior Medical Advisor, Department of Health and Aged Care

Members

Name	Organisation being represented
Ms Hayley Clapham	Autistic individual member
Dr Jac den Houting	Autistic individual member
Ms Julianne Higgins	Autistic individual member
Dr Lionel Evans	Autistic individual member
Ms Monique Blakemore	Autistic individual member
Dr Wenn B. Lawson	Autistic individual member
Ms Genevieve Brookman	Autistic Self Advocacy Network of Australia and New Zealand
Ms Jenny Karavolos	Australian Autism Alliance
Mr Bob Buckley	Autism Asperger’s Advocacy Australia (A4)
Mikala Sedgwick	First People’s Disability Network (FPDN)
Ms Thea Dunkley	National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)
Andrea Garcia	National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA)
Ms Donna Blanchard	Australian Advisory Board on Autism
Mr Bill Gye (OAM)	Community Mental Health Australia
Professor Julian Trollor	Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN) at UNSW
Associate Professor Darren Hedley	Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre (OTARC)
Professor Dawn Adams	Australasian Society for Autism Research (ASfAR)
Dr Catherine Marraffa (FRACP)	Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)
Dr James Best	Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)
Dr Emma Radford	Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP)
Ms Nicole Pates	Allied Health Professionals Australia (AHPA)
Dr Linda De George-Walker	Australian Psychological Society (APS)
Commonwealth Government Representative	Mental Health Division, Department of Health and Aged Care
Commonwealth Government Representative	Disability Support Branch, Department of Social Services
Commonwealth Government Representative	National Disability Insurance Agency
Commonwealth Government Representative	National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Quality and Safeguards Commission
State/Territory Government Representative	ACT Health Directorate, ACT Government
State/Territory Government Representative	Ministry of Health, NSW Government
State/Territory Government Representative	NT Health, Northern Territory Government
State/Territory Government Representative	Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service, Queensland Government
State/Territory Government Representative	Queensland Health, Queensland Government
State/Territory Government Representative	Department for Health and Wellbeing, Government of South Australia
State/Territory Government Representative	Department of Health, Victoria State Government
State/Territory Government Representative	Department of Health, Tasmanian Government
State/Territory Government Representative	WA Department of Health, Government of Western Australia