Our people and structure

Professor Brendan Crabb AC

Director and Chief Executive Officer

Professor Heidi Drummer

Scientific Director for Research Translation

Professor Margaret Hellard AM

Deputy Director, Programs

Chad Hughes

Deputy Director, International Operations

Mary-Ann Nicholas

Head, International Program Quality and Effectiveness

Monica Zhang

Chief Financial Officer (Interim)

Mary Padbury

BA, LLB(Hons). Chair since 2019. Director since 2011.

Professor Brendan Crabb AC

PhD, BSc. Director and Chief Executive Officer since 2008.

Professor Sandra Eades AO

PhD, FTSE, FASSA, FAHMS. Director since 2020.

James Flintoft

LLB, BSc, MBA. Director since 2023.

Dr Andrew Nash

PhD. Director since 2025.

Michael Ziegelaar

LLB(Hons), BEc, LLM. Director since 2015.

Professor Alan Cowman AC

Chair

Independent Scientific Advisory Committee

Professor Nancy Baxter

Member

Independent Scientific Advisory Committee

Adeeba Binti Kamarulzaman

Member

Independent Scientific Advisory Committee

Dr Shivaprasad S Goudar

Member

Independent Scientific Advisory Committee

Dr Fredrick Charles

Country Director, Papua New Guinea

Kali Ameara

Country Representative, Vanuatu; Vanuatu Research Coordinator

Dr Elissa Kennedy

Co-Program Director, Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health

Dr Lindi Masson

Deputy Director, Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health

Dr Anna Hearps

Co-Program Director, Disease Elimination

Associate Professor Megan SC Lim

Deputy Director, Disease Elimination

Associate Professor Suman Majumdar

Deputy Director, Health Security and Pandemic Preparedness

Professor Gilda Tachedjian

Deputy Head, International Development

Professor Mark A Stoové

Head, Public Health

Chad Hughes

Head, International Development