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
Ph: 0438 761 825
E: mohamedf@foundationhouse.org.au
Kristina Rienmueller
Project Coordinator, Perinatal Mental Health Co-design Project
Ph: 0457 900 184
E: rienmuellerk@foundationhouse.org.au
Natalie Anderson
Project Officer, Perinatal Mental Health Co-design Project
Ph: 0498 766 159
E: andersonn@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.
Dr Zubaidah Mohamed Shaburdin
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
Dr Shaymaa Elkadi Executive Manager, Strategy and Program Integration at Foundation House. Shaymaa has held previous senior...
Rebecca Eckard
Rebecca Eckard is the Director of Policy and Research at the Refugee Council of Australia, the national peak body for people from...
Chiedza Malunga
Chiedza is a public health professional with experience in refugee health and sexual and reproductive health and research in...
Tracey Cabrie
Tracey Cabrie (RN, MPH) is the General Manager of Cabrini Outreach’s Asylum Seeker Health Services. She has a diverse nursing and...
Sophie Dutertre
Sophie is a project and program manager with specific interest in refugee and asylum-seekers’ access to information and informed...
Kath Desmyth (Co-Chair)
Kath is the Statewide Facilitator of the Refugee Health Program. In her role she provides support and training to nurses and...
Dr Saniya Kazi
Professor Suresh Sundram is Head, Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University, Director of Research,...
Dr Karen Linton
Katherine Monson
Katherine Monson (BA/BSW, MPH, MClinFamTh) is the Coordinator of Community Development at Orygen specialist program, a youth...