Ms Darlene Cox, Executive Director, Health Care Consumers’ Association
Darlene is an Executive Director of Health Care Consumer’s Association. She has been involved in the consumer movement since the late 1990s and has a strong interest in improving healthcare quality and safety. She is an eminent advocate for health consumers with an excellent health system knowledge and practical understanding of community engagement principles. Darlene is a board member of the Capital Health Network and Meridian, and a member of the ACT Health and Wellbeing Partnership Board.
Dr Paul Miles, Director eHealth and Medication Safety at the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Paul oversees multiple work programs and projects that focus on national digital health infrastructure, including the My Health Record system, as well as the intersection between digital health and medication safety. He leads the Commission’s transition of care work program that aims to achieve fully optimised, functional, and interoperable digitally-enabled care. Paul has a keen interest in safety and quality motivated his doctoral thesis: ‘Does providing short-cycle feedback produce organisational learning?’ He has been a Senior Lecturer for Flinders University’s post-graduate health care administration program and has a background in health administration, having previously worked in executive management roles across several Sydney metropolitan hospitals.
Professor Faye McMillan AM, Community Pharmacist, Deputy National Rural Health Commissioner, Professor in Indigenous Health, University Technology Sydney
Faye is a Wiradjuri yinaa (woman) from Trangie, New South Wales. She is a community pharmacist, recognised as the first indigenous Australian to hold a western degree in pharmacy in this country. Faye is currently one of two Deputy National Rural Health Commissioners. She is a Professor in Indigenous Health in the UTS School of Public Health, as well as a board member of The Australian Pharmacy Council (APC) and is also the chair of the APC Indigenous health strategy group.
Dr Emma-Leigh Synnott, Medical Advisor, Sustainable Development Unit, Western Australia Department of Health
Emma is a Medical Advisor to the Sustainable Development Unit in the Western Australia Department of Health and a Consultant Physician in Rehabilitation Medicine specialising in Spinal Cord injury. She is the WA Chair for Doctors for the Environment Australia, and a course facilitator of the Sustainable Healthcare in Practice micro-credential offered through the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Melbourne.
Professor Branwen Morgan, Minimising Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Mission Lead at CSIRO
Branwen is the Minimising Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Mission Lead at CSIRO. In her previous role, at the University of Technology Sydney, she co-founded and managed the OUTBREAK project - a big data and AI approach for tracking, tracing, and tackling One Health AMR, which received over $1.5M in grant and industry funding. Branwen has spent a large part of her career in corporate affairs, strategic planning, and communication. She's held consultancy and management roles in the pharmaceutical industry, non-profit and government sectors in the UK and Australia and has also worked as a journalist in mainstream media and science publishing.
Professor Villis Marshall AC, Chair of the Board of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Villis is the Board Chair for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care and is one of Australia’s most distinguished and respected healthcare leaders. He brings his experience in providing healthcare services, managing public hospitals, and improving safety and quality. Professor Marshall has had significant clinical experience as a urologist, and as Clinical Director (Surgical Specialties Service) at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of Adelaide.
