Professor Rob Moodie Is the inaugural Chair of Global Health at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne. He is responsible for leading the development of the Disease Prevention and Health Promotion group within the Institute. In April 2008 he was appointed by the Federal Minister for Health to chair the National Preventative Health Task Force, which has recently developed the the National Preventative Health Strategy. He is currently the acting Chair of the Commission of AIDS in the Pacific. He chairs the Technical Advisory Panel of the Gates Foundation’s funded Indian HIV prevention program Avahan.
He was Chief Executive Officer of Victoria’s Health Promotion agency, VicHealth, from 1998-2007.
In 2007 he was appointed by the Victorian Minister of Planning to chair the Audit Expert Group to review Melbourne’s major urban plan, Melbourne 2030. He was a member of the Minister of Foreign Affairs’ Aid Advisory Council from 2002-2007. From 1999-2002 he was Editor-in-Chief of the Health Promotion Journal of Australia, and from 2001-2006 he was Vice President of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education. He co-chaired the 6th ICAAP meeting in 2001.
Since 1979 he has worked for Save the Children Fund, Medicins Sans Frontieres, Congress, the Aboriginal Health Service in Alice Springs, the Burnet Institute and for the World Health Organization. He was the inaugural Director of Country Programs at the joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
Professor Moodie has written and spoken extensively on preventative health. He has co-edited and co-written four books, including Hands on Health Promotion, and his most recent book is Recipes for a Great Life with Gabriel Gate. He has written 12 book chapters, and authored 20 major reports. He has written over 50 opinion editorials in the Australian mainstream press.
He graduated in medicine at the University of Melbourne in 1976, and has also studied Tropical Medicine at Paris University and Public Health at Harvard University.
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