Our leaders and staff

Head of School

Professor David Sibbritt

Head of School and Professor of Public Health

David Sibbritt

Professor David Sibbritt is a professor of epidemiology who focuses on chronic illness, and in particular, on how people use self-care to treat chronic illnesses. David also has extensively researched primary health care and health services planning.

David is an experienced quantitative researcher, with expertise in research methodology. He has produced over 300 peer-reviewed journal publications, is an associate editor of two international peer-reviewed journals, and is/was a chief investigator on numerous National Health and Medical Research Council and Australian Research Council-funded projects.

TWITTER: @davidsibbritt

Deputy Head of School - Research

Distinguished Professor Jon Adams

Professor of Public Health

Jon Adams

Distinguished Professor Jon Adams is the Deputy Head of School – Research, Director of the Australian Research Consortium in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM) and a Fulbright Senior Scholar. Jon is the world-leading public health and health services researcher focused upon self-care, informal health care and traditional, complementary, integrative and indigenous medicine use and practice.

Jon is also the National Convenor of the Special Interest Group in Evidence, Research and Policy in Complementary Medicine at the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) and Chair of International Membership of the Integrative, Complementary and Traditional Health Practices Section at the American Public Health Association (APHA). Jon has authored over 480 publications including 8 research books and has attracted over $20M in research funding to date.

TWITTER: @ProfAdamsARCCIM

Deputy Head of School - Teaching and Learning

Profile of Deborah Debono

Associate Professor Deborah Debono

Professor of Health Services Management

Deborah is passionate about improving the safety and quality of delivery of services across health and social care sectors and committed to doing so through teaching and research. Deborah is an internationally recognised expert in investigating the use of workarounds that are ubiquitous in health and social care. Identification of workarounds is pivotal to illuminating the difference between how work is imagined to be done (work-as-imagined) and how work is actually done (work-as-done). As such, understanding workarounds is pivotal to effective implementation and evaluation. Once identified, workarounds can inform strategies to address barriers to program implementation.

Currently Deborah: Co-Chairs the Justice Health and Mental and Forensic Health Network Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC); is Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member, Health Information Management Journal (HIMJ); Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Australian Institute of Health Innovation;  Visiting Fellow, St Vincent's Clinical School, UNSW Medicine at the University of New South Wales, and Honorary Research Fellow, Uniting; Advisory member of the Care and Clinical Care Governance Committee, Anglicare. Deborah was a Director on the Anglicare Board (2019-2022) and a member of the SESLHD HREC (2016-2022). At UTS Deborah serves on the Faculty of Health and Faculty of Law Boards and the School of Public Health Teaching and Learning Committee.

TWITTER: @deborah_debono

Head of Discipline - Health Services Management

Professor Emily Callander

Professor of Health Services Management

Emily Callander

Professor Emily Callander is a health economist and value-based care researcher specialising in maternal and women's health. Through her research program, Emily partners with health service providers and policymakers to generate real-world evidence that is shaping the current delivery of healthcare and improving outcomes for individuals across Australia.

Emily is a highly successful researcher, having attracted >$25M in research funding, largely from category 1 grants and she has >180 publications. She sits on a number of maternal health state government committees; is a member of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee Economics Subcommittee, where she provides economic advice on all new medications seeking public subsidisation through the PBS; and is Vice President of Women’s Healthcare Australasia.

Emily’s mission is to improve the health and wellbeing outcomes of all women, by creating women-centred, valued-based health services that reduce inequalities. She does this by using health economic research to influence health systems and policy.

TWITTER: : @EmilyCallander

Academic Staff

Public Health

Health Services Management

Diabetes Education & Management

Indigenous Health

  • Faye McMillan AM- Professor of Indigenous Health, Head of Discipline 
  • Jacintha Manton- Associate Lecturer, Indigenous Student Liaison Officer
  • Scott Avery- Professor of Indigenous Health

Palliative Care

  • Mariana DeSouza – Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  • Michelle DiGiacomo – Associate Professor, Course Director Palliative Care
  • Tim Luckett – Senior Lecturer

Professional Staff

  • Aduk Dau – Research Assistant
  • Alexandria Siegers - Research Assistant
  • Brenda Winter – Research Assistant
  • Chris Rossiter- Project Officer 
  • Claire Rogers – Senior Research Officer
  • Courtney Krahe- Project Manager 
  • Erika Frey – Research Assistant
  • Evie Heap- Project Coordinator 
  • Faris Saman- Research Assistant 
  • Hayley Clapham – Research Assistant
  • Jasmine Williams- Aboriginal Research Assistant 
  • Jennifer Plumb- Research Officer 
  • Jess Harris- Research Assistant
  • Jo Dwyer- School Manager 
  • Josephine Tilgals - ARCCIM Centre Coordinator 
  • Katie Burnett – Senior Clinical Administration Officer
  • Linda Elliott – Senior Project Manager
  • Linn Hetland – Research Assistant
  • Michelle St Lambert- Senior Administrative Officer 
  • Peter Lual Deng – Research Assistant
  • Salma Ahmed – Research Assistant
  • Sancheeta Pugalia- Research Assistant 
  • Shanelle Sorbello - Research Assistant
  • Shiffa Samad - Research Assistant
  • Simone Champion – Senior Project Manager
  • Teagan Bortolotti- Research Assistant 
  • Tess Moodie – Research Assistant
  • Sally Fitzpatrick- Senior Project Manager
  • Zoe Trube-Templeton – Research Assistant

Honorary Staff

  • Evelyn Adjei-Menash- Visiting Scholar
  • Tasnima Akter- Visiting Scholar
  • Amanda Bartlett- Visiting Scholar
  • Firew Tekle Bobo- Visiting Scholar
  • Yan Cheng- Visiting Scholar
  • Steven Bernadi- Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Patricia Bradd- Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Roger Chen- Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Robyn Drysdale- Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Benjamin Harris-Roxas- Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Melissa Shi-Ling Kang- Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Thomas McClean- Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Donna Murray- Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Stephanie Taplin- Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Natalie Taylor- Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Suresh Tiwari- Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Troy Trgetaric- Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Alex Yueping Wang- Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Jonathan Wardle- Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Jennifer Maria Ann Bichel-Findlay- Adjunct Fellow
  • Herbert Down- Adjunct Fellow
  • Josephine Gwynne- Adjunct Fellow
  • Robyn Henao Urrego- Adjunct Fellow
  • Eloise Amelia Chisholm Howse- Adjunct Fellow
  • Mary Kit-Ping Lam- Adjunct Fellow
  • Carly Louise Mundine- Adjunct Fellow
  • Rachel Nicholls- Adjunct Fellow
  • Mark Ragg- Adjunct Fellow
  • Carla Margaret Saunders- Adjunct Fellow
  • Deborah Bateson- Adjunct Professor
  • Ann Brassil- Adjunct Professor
  • David Owen Irving- Adjunct Professor
  • Ponndara Ith- Adjunct Professor
  • Carrie Kilpatrick Marr- Adjunct Professor
  • Akex Molasiotis- Adjunct Professor
  • Dominic Morgan- Adjunct Professor
  • Tuly Rosenfeld- Adjunct Professor
  • Elizabeth Sullivan- Adjunct Professor
  • Nguyen Toan Tran- Adjunct Professor
  • Joanne Francis Travaglia- Adjunct Professor
  • Mirkuzie Woldie Keire- Adjunct Professor
  • Gabriel Cheung- Industry Fellow
  • Mark Kearin- Industry Fellow
  • Denis Tamplin- Industry Fellow
  • Ana Paula Antunes Ferreira- Visiting Fellow 
  • Julie Rose Ayre- Visiting Fellow 
  • Kieran Cooley- Visiting Fellow 
  • Jerry Draper-Rodi- Visiting Fellow 
  • Shamona Eaves- Visiting Fellow 
  • Austen El-Osta- Visiting Fellow 
  • Michael Fleischmann- Visiting Fellow 
  • Joshua Goldenberg- Visiting Fellow 
  • Sacha Kendall Jamieson- Visiting Fellow 
  • Erica Louise McIntyre- Visiting Fellow 
  • Gopi Anne McLeod- Visiting Fellow 
  • Chantal Morin- Visiting Fellow 
  • Lee Muddle- Visiting Fellow 
  • Giuliana Murfet- Visiting Fellow 
  • Danielle Muscat- Visiting Fellow 
  • Carolyn Njue- Visiting Fellow 
  • Elenor Oyston- Visiting Fellow 
  • Kathrin Schmieder- Visiting Fellow 
  • Robert Shaw- Visiting Fellow 
  • Niklas Sinderholm Sposato- Visiting Fellow 
  • Loic Treffel- Visiting Fellow 
  • Nicholas Tripodi- Visiting Fellow 
  • Brett Vaughan- Visiting Fellow 
  • Monica Gulati- Visiting Professor 
  • Michael Moore- Visiting Professor 
  • Sachin Singh- Visiting Professor 

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UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.