Our Team

Our team are committed to improving health service systems that meet the needs of Victorians from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds.

Gavin Halge

Refugee Health Network Coordinator

Angela Keating

Project Lead – Australian Refugee Health Practitioner Guide

Samina Hassan

Sector Development & Policy Advisor

Maddie Cranney

Project Officer – Australian Refugee Health Practitioner Guide

Olivia Smith

Program Support Officer

Faten Mohamed

Project Officer – Refugee and Asylum Seeker Mental Health Coordination

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.

Victorian Department of Health

Info coming soon...

Kath Desmyth

Kath is the Statewide Facilitator of the Refugee Health Program. In her role she provides support and training to nurses and allied health staff...

Nesrudin Mohamed Salah (Co-Chair)

Nesrudin is a dedicated Refugee health nurse and emergency nurse at Cohealth and Royal Melbourne Hospital, with a total of 7 years nursing now.

Rebecca Eckard

Rebecca Eckard is the Director of Policy and Research at the Refugee Council of Australia, the national peak body for people from refugee,...

Sophie Dutertre (Co-Chair)

Sophie is a project and program manager with specific interest in refugee and asylum-seekers’ access to information and informed decision-making....

Dr. Saniya Kazi

Saniya Kazi is a Consultant Paediatrician passionate about child health equity. Saniya works for the Monash Refugee Health Service as well as...

Katherine Monson

Katherine Monson (BA/BSW, MPH, MClinFamTh) is the Coordinator of Community Development at Orygen specialist program, a youth mental health service. ...