Our Team
Our team are committed to improving health service systems that meet the needs of Victorians from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds.
Faten Mohamed
Project Officer Refugee and Asylum Seeker Mental Health Coordination
Kristina Rienmueller
Project Coordinator, Perinatal Mental Health Co-design Project
Natalie Anderson
Project Officer, Perinatal Mental Health Co-design Project
Bella Starr
Project Officer – Diverse Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing
E: starrb@foundationhouse.org.au
Our Executive Group
The Victorian Refugee Health Network is governed by an Executive Group that provides strategic direction and oversees the Network’s activities. Positions are appointed for a three-year tenure, with half the positions rotating in any given year. Executive Group members are appointed via an expression of interest to the Network membership and sector.
Heather McMinn
Heather McMinn works with National Disability Services focusing on disability and health engaging with government, disability and advocacy...
Dr. Zubaidah Mohamed Shaburdin
[wpseo_breadcrumb]Dr. Zubaidah Mohamed Shaburdin is a Malay settler living on Yorta Yorta (Shepparton) country for the past seven years. Zubaidah...
Nesrudin Mohamed Salah
Nesrudin is a dedicated Refugee health nurse and emergency nurse at Cohealth and Royal Melbourne Hospital, with a total of 7 years nursing now.
Shaymaa Elkadi
[wpseo_breadcrumb]Dr Shaymaa Elkadi Executive Manager, Strategy and Program Integration at Foundation House. Shaymaa has held previous senior...
Rebecca Eckard
[wpseo_breadcrumb]Rebecca Eckard is the Director of Policy and Research at the Refugee Council of Australia, the national peak body for people from...
Chiedza Malunga
[wpseo_breadcrumb]Chiedza is a public health professional with experience in refugee health and sexual and reproductive health and research in...
Tracey Cabrie
[wpseo_breadcrumb]Tracey Cabrie (RN, MPH) is the General Manager of Cabrini Outreach’s Asylum Seeker Health Services. She has a diverse nursing and...
Sophie Dutertre
[wpseo_breadcrumb]Sophie is a project and program manager with specific interest in refugee and asylum-seekers’ access to information and informed...
Kath Desmyth (Co-Chair)
[wpseo_breadcrumb]Kath is the Statewide Facilitator of the Refugee Health Program. In her role she provides support and training to nurses and...
Dr. Saniya Kazi
[wpseo_breadcrumb]Saniya Kazi is a Consultant Paediatrician passionate about child health equity. Saniya works for the Monash Refugee Health Service...
Dr. Karen Linton
Katherine Monson
[wpseo_breadcrumb]Katherine Monson (BA/BSW, MPH, MClinFamTh) is the Coordinator of Community Development at Orygen specialist program, a youth...