The Board of Directors is chaired by Dr Alan Hampson BSc, MSc, M.D.(Hon), FASM, OAM.

The other directors are:

Associate Professor Louis Irving

MBBS, FRACGP, FRACP

Associate Professor Louis Irving is the Director of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, as well as the Director of Clinical Training (PGY 2/3) at the same hospital. He is also a visiting respiratory physician at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, and a consultant respiratory physician (Group Captain) at the Royal Australian Airforce. In addition to his medial appointments, he holds two principal fellowships at the University of Melbourne, one in the Faculty of Medicine, and the other at the Department of Physiology.

Associate Professor Irving serves on a number of important committees, including the TSANZ interventional pulmonology SIG, the Australian Lung Foundation lung cancer committee, the WCMICS lung cancer group, the Sir Edward Dunlop Foundation scientific research committee, the Scientific advisory committee, National Research Centre for Asbestos Related Diseases, the DHS HARP chronic respiratory disease advisory committee, and is Chair of the Victorian branch of the Medical Association for Prevention of War.

 

Associate Professor John Litt

MBBS, FRACGP, FAFPHM, MSc(Epid), DipRACOG, PhD

Associate Professor John Litt is an Associate Professor in General Practice at Flinders University, and public health physician.
He is also the Deputy Chairman of the National Quality Committee of the RACGP. His major clinical and research interests are in prevention and its implementation. He has expertise in lifestyle counselling, immunisation (especially in older adults) and screening. He has over 50 refereed publications (journal articles, book and book chapters) including co authorship of the Australian General Practice Smoking Cessation Guidelines and the RACGP monograph Putting Prevention into Practice. He has been the leading driver of the RACGP green book, Putting Prevention into Practice and has coordinated the revision of the 2nd edition. He has run counselling workshops for GPs, Divisions and practice nurses for 15 years in most States in Australia.

Associate Professor Litt was a cofounder of the SA Influenza and Pneumococcal Advisory Committee in 1993 and conducted the first National Influenza and Pneumococcal Survey in the elderly in Australia in the late 1990s. He is currently chairing the SA Department of Health, Primary care Pandemic Planning Steering committee, a group that is developing a primary care pandemic planning document

Dr Litt has been a member of several committees related to immunisation

• ATAGI
• DOHA Influenza program Advisory Committee
• SA Immunisation Forum
• Sa Influenza and Pneumococcal Advisory Committee

Clinical Professor David Smith

BMedSc, MBBS, FRCPA, FACTM 

Prof Smith is a medical graduate of the University of Western Australia (UWA), and trained in Medical Microbiology in Perth. He has worked at the MRC Institute of Virology in Glasgow and the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, and currently works in the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA. He also has appointments as a Clinical Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Life and Physical Sciences at the UWA, and as an Adjunct Professor in the Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre at Curtin University of Technology. He is Director of the National Influenza Centre at PathWest, and Co-Director of the Arbovirus Research and Surveillance Group at UWA. He serves on a number of State and Commonwealth Government advisory committees and networks, including the Australian Influenza Vaccine Committee, the Public Health Laboratory Network, the National Influenza Coordinators' Network, the National Arbovirus and Malaria Advisory Committee, and the Western Australian Influenza Pandemic Action Committee. In addition he is a member of the Asia-Pacific Advisory Committee on Influenza. His research interests include influenza and other respiratory viruses, mosquito-borne viruses, and emerging infectious diseases.  He has authored or co-authored several book chapters and over 100 medical journal articles on a range of infectious diseases.

 

Professor William (Bill) Rawlinson

BSc (Med), MBBS, PhD(Cantab), FASM, FRACP, FRCPA, GCM

As a Senior Medical Virologist Professor Rawlinson is head of the Division of Virology, in the Department of Microbiology SEALS, and has a conjoint position in the Department of Infectious Diseases, Prince of Wales Hospital. He has worked previously at the Institute for Clinical Pathology and Medical Research (ICPMR), Westmead Hospital, Addenbrooke's Hospital (Cambridge U.K.) and Concord Hospital. During this work he has also had a role in general infectious diseases consultations and diagnostic microbiology problems. He has responsibility for a reference diagnostic virology laboratory at The Prince of Wales Hospital, focusing on the assessment and introduction of rapid diagnostic tests. He holds a conjoint academic position as Professor in the School of Medical Science and the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at The University of New South Wales.

The research group that he heads studies congenital infections, enteroviruses, hepatitis viruses, herpesviruses (in particular human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) and murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV)), viruses in breast carcinoma (human homologues of MMTV), new antivirals, and antiviral resistance.

Ms Kristine Whorlow

BA, DipEd, FAICD, MACE

Chief Executive Officer, National Asthma Council Australia

Ms Kristine Whorlow has a background in management, policy development, government relations, event management and sponsorship.  She is the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the National Asthma Council Australia having held that position since 1991.

Her previous positions include:

- Chief Executive Officer, The Melbourne Moomba Festival Ltd
- Senior Assistant Director, Victorian Ministry of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs
- Operations Manager, Victoria's 150th Anniversary
- English Language Lecturer, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

She is an advisor to the Asthma Council Malaysia, Taiwan Asthma Council, National Asthma Council Sri Lanka, Bangladesh Lung Foundation and convenor of the GP Asia-Pacific Respiratory Board (involving 9 countries).  

She presents regularly at meetings in Asia Pacific countries such as the China Asthma Alliance, and at international meetings like the Asia Pacific Society of Respirology on topics like the development and implementation of treatment guidelines, benefits and formation of respiratory stakeholder coalitions, health consumer campaigns and national transition planning for the phase-out of CFC containing metered dose inhalers.

She is also an Australian Government nominee on the United Nations Environment Program Medical Technical Options Committee, director and Finance Committee Chairman of the Influenza Specialist Group (Australia) and Management Committee member of the Australian System for Monitoring Asthma. Her former Board memberships include UNICEF Australia and Scope (formally the Spastic Society of Victoria). She is an Associate Member of The Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific Society of Respirology.

 

Dr Rodney Pearce

MBBS

Dr Rod Pearce trained in Adelaide and worked at the RAH, TQEH and Modbury Hospital(s) before starting work in General Practice. His present urban and rural general practice work includes regular consulting, aged care and home visits, hospital consulting and Medical Officer for Health to local government and other organizations. His practice is one of the first in SA to train young doctors in their first postgraduate (Intern) years and prevocational years (PGPPP) in the community and continues to be an active supervisor to GP registrars through the regional training program.

Dr Pearce currently holds positions on the board(s) of (in addition to the Influenza Specialist Group), AGPAL/QIP, National General Practice Supervisors Association, and GP Partners (a division of general practice). In 2008 he was appointed by the Health Minister the Hon. Nicola Roxon to the External Reference Group to develop Australia’s National Primary Heath Care Strategy for the national health reforms.

In 2010 he was reappointed to the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) the group who produce the Australian Immunisation Handbook and maintains a keen local and national interest in vaccination programs, often asked to comment in the media on immunisation issues.

Dr Pearce was president of the AMA(SA) 1998-2000 and GP representitive on the Federal AMA and Chair of AMA Council of General Practice for 3 terms from 2004–2010. He is a Fellow of the AMA and received the AMA(SA) Presidents award in 2008.

 

ISG Company Secretary

Mr Kim Sampson