Brendan Allen is an experienced executive and clinical and public health professional with over 25 years’ experience in the health sector (nursing, international health and health service management). For 20 years, he has led teams providing strategic planning activities, program management and technical assistance in low and middle-income countries within the academic, private and NGO sectors.
Brendan is the director of funding partnerships at Burnet. He leads a team supporting the whole of institute with partnership engagement and developing opportunities with research funders, government agencies, UN agencies, multilateral organisations and trusts and foundations.
Prior to this, he was the executive director of The Global Alliance for Surgery, Obstetrics, Trauma and Anaesthesiology (The G4 Alliance), based in the USA and led the Alliance in their global advocacy campaigns, strategic planning and policy development. Previously, he was chief operating officer of the Nossal Institute Limited, the operating arm of the Nossal Institute for Global Health (University of Melbourne).
Brendan has significant experience in South and South East Asia, and has lived and worked for three years in Hanoi managing a hospital strengthening program at the National Hospital of Paediatrics. In previous roles, he worked as project manager of the Australian Aid funded Indonesian Women’s Health and Family Welfare Project in Eastern Indonesia, and program coordinator of the East Asia region with Oxfam Australia. Brendan has also worked as a clinical nurse consultant and health service manager in remote area health services in the Northern Territory.