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Dr Grant Blashki
Grant has been a practicing GP for 25 years and is the Lead Clinical Advisor for beyondblue. He is an Associate Professor at the Nossal Institute and the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne. He is an Honorary Professor at Luohu Hospital Group in Shenzhen, China and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.
Grant’s research has three themes: General Practice/Primary Care, Sustainability and Mental Health. He has co-authored 125+ publications in peer reviewed journals, six books and more than 20 government/policy reports. He has co-convened conferences about GP Psychiatry in Australia, Italy and Israel and leads the Master of Public Health subject, Environmental Challenges and Global Health.
He has been a Board Director of the Australian Conservation Foundation, a mentor in the Al Gore Climate Leadership Project, a co-founder of Doctors for the Environment Australia, Chair of the Environmental Working Group of the World Organisation of Family Doctors and a Member of the Strategic Advisory Group of the Climate Institute.
In 2008, Grant was co-recipient of the Fundraisers Institute of Australia’s Major Grants fundraising award for philanthropic work. In 2009, he was co-recipient of an Australian Evaluation Society Award for Excellence in Evaluation in relation to the evaluation of major primary health care reforms in Australia. In 2012, Grant graduated from the Sidney Myer Asia Link Leadership Program.
He is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is Medical Director of health education website familydoctor.expert
Professor Vivian Lin
Professor Vivian Lin is the Executive Associate Dean of LKS Faculty of Medicine and Professor of Public Health Practice at University Hong Kong. She has more than 30 years of experience in public health, with a variety of leading roles in policy and programme development, health services planning, research and teaching, and senior administration in complex organizations.
Vivian was Chair of Public Health from 2000-2013 at La Trobe University in Melbourne before serving the WHO as Director of Health Systems in the Western Pacific Regional Office for 2013-2018, where she led on the global priorities of universal health coverage and sustainable development goals, cross-cutting priority issues of antimicrobial resistance, ageing, and gender-based violence, and on health system development issues including health financing, health law and ethics, health workforce, traditional medicines, service delivery, and health information systems.
Vivian has also worked at senior executive level in health policy in several Australian jurisdictions, including as Executive Officer of the National Public Health Partnership. She has also consulted widely for the World Bank, UK Department for International Development, Australian Agency for International Development, World Health Organization, and various Australian governments at state and federal levels. In these roles, she has developed the first Australian health sector aid strategy for China, the WHO framework for people-centred health care for the Western Pacific Region, and the ASEAN Healthy Lifestyle Strategy. She was commissioned to undertake major studies of indicators used globally for gender equity and health, on risks and regulatory requirements for naturopathy, and evaluation of health promotion leadership program.
A graduate of Yale and the University of California Berkeley, Lin was a recipient of the Drotman Award given by the American Public Health Association in 1982 for promising young public health professionals.
Associate Professor Melody Ding
Associate Professor Melody Ding is internationally recognised for her research in physical activity, behavioural epidemiology and chronic disease prevention research, evidenced by 180 published papers in reputable academic journals. She led the 2016 and 2021 Lancet Series on Physical Activity and Health and has been an enthusiastic advocate for equal access to an active lifestyle.
Melody was the recipient of the 2018 NSW Young Tall Poppy of the Year, 2019 Australian Museum Eureka Prize Emerging Leader in Science, and the 2021 Ministerial Award for Rising Star in Cardiovascular Disease Research. Her work has informed policies, guidelines, and practices around the world and has received extensive media coverage around the world.
Colin Sindall, Adjunct Associate Professor, MSDI, Monash University
Colin Sindall’s career has spanned close to 30 years in senior leadership and technical roles in health promotion and public health, at the local, state, national and international levels. This followed an earlier career in social planning and community development.
Prior to his retirement from the Victorian Public Service, Colin was the inaugural Chief Preventive Health Officer in the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, where he also served for a number of years as Director of Prevention and Population Health.
His career in Victoria followed more than a decade as senior adviser in population health and health promotion for the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. In this capacity he helped develop and negotiate a number of major national preventive health initiatives, including those under the Council of Australian Governments Human Capital Agenda.
Colin has been a consultant and temporary adviser for the World Health Organisation in non-communicable disease prevention and control, and was a member of the OECD Expert Working Group on the Economics of Prevention. He has served as a member of the Editorial Board for Health Promotion International, and is currently a board member of the Journal of Public Health Research and Practice. He was a founding member of the International Society for Equity and Health.
Colin has most recently been working on a number of projects on the wellbeing of future generations and wellbeing measurement, which will be a major focus of his role with MSDI.
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