Our Team
Our team are committed to improving health service systems that meet the needs of Victorians from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds.
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.
Jamaluddin Temori
Jamal has an academic and professional background in international and community development practice and brings experience in...
Tecwyn Davies
Dr Tecwyn Davies is an Emergency Medicine specialist, currently completing Paediatric Emergency Medicine subspecialty training at...
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 Suresh Sundram (Co-Chair)
Professor Suresh Sundram is Head, Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University, Director of Research,...
Jessica ‘Ika’ Trijsburg
Ika has experience working in refugee health service provision in regional and rural contexts. She is a recognised diversity,...
Spase Veljanovski
Spase is an experienced project worker and facilitator in organisational cultural competence, health literacy and language...