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

Ph: 0456 626 823
E: halgeg@foundationhouse.org.au

Kristina Rienmueller

Sector Development and Policy Advisor

Ph: 0457 900 184
E: rienmuellerk@foundationhouse.org.au

Ambreen Mirza

Project Officer Diverse Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing

Ph: 0482 969 550
E: mirzaa@foundationhouse.org.au

Samina Hassan

Administration Officer/ Project Officer-Refugee Women’s Health Community Consultation

Ph: 0498 457 701
E: hassans@foundationhouse.org.au

Angela Keating

Project Coordinator – Refugee Women’s Health Community Consultation

Ph:0437 863 791
E: keatinga@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.

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 public health background in paediatrics, asylum seeker and refugee health and infectious diseases, as well as in international health.