Our leaders and staff

Head of School

Professor David Sibbritt

Head of School and Professor of Public Health

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

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

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

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

• Abela Mahimbo- Senior Lecturer 
• Albie Sharpe- Lecturer, Course Director BPH
• Andrew Hayen- Professor of Biostatistics
• Angela Dawson- Professor of Public Health, Associate Dean (Research)
• Anne Grunseit- Associate Professor
• Amie Steel- Senior Research Fellow 
• Bernard Saliba- Lecturer, Academic Liaison Officer
• Bo Huang- Research Fellow 
• Daniel Demant, Senior Lecturer, Course Director MPH
• David Sibbritt- Professor of Public Health, Head of School 
• Heidi Merrington- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
• Hope Foley- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
• Jane Frawley- Associate Professor
• Jon Adams- Distinguished Professor of Public Health, Deputy Head of School (Research)
• Karina Arias-Calluari - Postdoctoral Research Fellow
• Kirsten Baker – Postdoctoral Research Fellow
• Klaus Gebel- Senior Lecturer 
• Kris Rogers- Associate Professor
• Leonie Cranney- Research Fellow 
• Nikki Percival- Associate Professor
• Rachel Grove- Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow
• Sungwon Chang- Senior Lecturer 
• Tristan Carter – Postdoctoral Research Fellow
• Wenbo Peng- Senior Research Fellow 

Health Services Management

• Emily Callander- Professor of Health Services Management, Head of Discipline HSM 
• Deborah Debono- Associate Professor 
• Janelle Craig- Lecturer, Course Director HSM
• Suyin Hor- Senior Lecturer, HDR Program Coordinator 
• Sarah Wise- Senior Lecturer 
• Yanan Hu - Research Associate

Diabetes Education & Management

• Grace Ward- Lecturer 
• Shannon Lin- Senior Lecturer, Course Director (Diabetes)

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

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