Work group leaders
Key members of the Collaboration who lead aspects of the workplan
A/Professor Jamie Ranse
Professor Julia Crilly
Dr Peta-Anne Zimmerman
Professor Alison Hutton
A/Professor Tegan Cruwys
A/Professor Leonie Lockstone-Binney
Mr Andrew Bell
Strategic Advisory Network Members
Provide advice to, and recieve advice from, members of the Collaboration
- Michael Bray, Manager, State Planning Unit, NSW Ambulance
- Joe Cuthbertson, Head of Specialist Operations, St John Ambulance Australia (Westen Australia)
- Brett Drummond, Manager, Consequence and Planning, Emergency Management Unit, Ambulance Victoria
- Rob Elliott, Chief Executive Officer, SA Ambulance Service
- Simon Harmsen, Manager, Emergency Management & Special Operations, Ambulance Tasmania
- Glen Hoult, Event Risk and Specialist Team Manager, Hato Hone St John, Aotearoa New Zealand
- Scott Kelly, Operations Manager, ACT Ambulance Service
- Rachel Latimer, Senior Operations Supervisor Events and Planning, Gold Coast Region, Queensland Ambulance Service
- Bryce Picot, Manager, Emergency Management, NSW Ambulance
- Andrew Thomas, Director Ambulance Services, St John Australia (NT)
- Jeremy Wickham, Director, Emergency Management Unit, Queensland Ambulance Service
- Katie Wilson, Emergency Planning Manager, Wellington Free Ambulance
- Donna Chatfield, Environmental Health Officer – Health Services, Scenic Rim Regional Council
- Jaala Downes, Senior Scientific Officer, Environmental Health Directorate, Western Australian Department of Health
- Jared Kranz, Team Leader – Health Services, Scenic Rim Regional Council
- Melinda Lennon, Director Environmental Health, Metro South Public Health Unit, Queensland Health
- Richard Skinner, Environmental Health Officer, Gold Coast Public Health Unit, Queensland Health
- Brendon Downey, General Manager, The Event Crew
- Sarah Gardiner, Director, Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University
- Kevin Filo, Associate Professor, Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management, Griffith University
- Avril Harris, Director, Corporate and Partnerships, Major Events Gold Coast
- Todd Harris, Chief Executive Officer, Stadiums Queensland
- Pat Oxley, Group Executive, Operations and Commercial, Stadiums Queensland
- Brendin Bloye, Director, Disaster Management Branch, Queensland Health
- Andrew Bryett, Disaster Management Branch, Queensland Health
- Shane Bolton, Assistant Director, Capability Building and Assurance (Health Emergency Management), Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
- Tudor Codreanu, Director, Disaster Preparedness and Management Directorate, Department of Health, Western Australia
- Devon Harrison, A/Manager Non-Emergency Patient Transport and First Aid Services Regulation, Department of Health (Victoria)
- Wayne Jones, State Health Services Functional Area Co-ordinator, Ministry of Health, NSW Health
- Adrian Reilly, Senior Environmental Health Officer – Public Health Incidents and Events, Health Protection and Regulation Branch, Queensland Health
- Michele Buckland, Nurse Manager, Governance, Risk, Audit and Disaster, Gold Coast Health Emergency Department
- Paul Campbell, Event Coordinator (Casual), National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre
- Peter Kara, Principal Advisor Emergency Management, Nelson Marlborough
- Andrea Mann, Director of Nursing – Clinical Coordinator of Disaster & Emergency Management, Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service
- Kim Veiwasenavanua, Executive Director Nursing and Midwifery, Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service
- Rhiannon Winter, Manager, Strategic Projects and Rapid Response Team, National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre
- Matt Mason, University of the Sunshine Coast, Collaborative for the Advancement of Infection Prevention and Control (CAIPC)
- Harunor Rashid, Mass Gathering Medicine Node Lead, Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute
- Andrew Bell, Paramedic Team Leader, Royal Flying Doctor Service (WA)
- Julia Crilly, Professor of Emergency Care, Gold Coast Health and Griffith University
- Tegan Cruwys, School of Medicine and Psychology, Australian National University
- Alison Hutton, Nursing and Midwifery, University of Newcastle
- Leonie Lockstone-Binney, Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University
- Jamie Ranse, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University
- Peta-Anne Zimmerman, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University
- Laura Ferris, Lecturer, UQ Business School, The University of Queensland
- Satyamurthy Anuradha, Public Health Physician, Metro South Public Health Unit, Queensland Health
- Sharon Jurd, Director, Gold Coast Public Health Unit, Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service, Queensland Health
- Kathleen McDermott, A/Director Disaster Preparedness and Response, National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre
- Matthew Roughan, Public Health Registrar, Metro South Public Health Unit, Queensland Health
- Nick Walsh, Public Health Specialist (Communicable Diseases), National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre
- Paul Arbon, Torrens Resilience Institute, World Health Organization Collaboration Centre for Mass Gatherings and Global Health Security at Flinders University
- Kristy Austin, Clinical Services Manager, St John Ambulance Australia (Victoria)
- Paul Barnes, Senior Research, Policy and Practice Fellow, Griffith University
- Alan Eade, previous Chief Paramedic Officer, Safer Care Victoria
- John Richardson, Manager Knowledge Development, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience
- Tina Endericks, Head of Global Health Security, UK Health Security Agency
- Anas Khan, Director General, Global Center for Mass Gatherings Medicine, Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia
- Lucia Mullen, Associate Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
- Research Group on Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Ives Hubloue, Chairman
- Kris Spaepen, Researcher and Teaching Associate
Download the Strategic Advisory Network Terms of Reference (PDF).
Students
Students of all levels join our team to complete discrete projects
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy
Project: Determining mass gathering event stadium and area factors that influence patient presentation and their outcome.
Degree: Master of Emergency Nursing (Dissertation)
Project: A retrospective analysis of drug and alcohol related patient presentations to the Gold Coast Health emergency departments during the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Publications:
- Delany, C., Crilly, J., & Ranse, J. (2021). Drug‐and alcohol‐related emergency department patient presentations during the 2018 Commonwealth Games: A multi‐site retrospective analysis. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 33(5), 826-833.
- Delany, C., Crilly, J., & Ranse, J. (2020). Drug and alcohol related patient presentations to emergency departments during sporting mass-gathering events: an integrative review. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 35(3), 298-304.
Degree: Bachelor of Nursing (Honours)
Project: A retrospective cohort study evaluating the impact of a mass gathering (the 2018 Commonwealth Games) on emergency department presentations with communicable diseases.
Awards:
- First Class Honours
Conference presentation:
- Qiu, Y., Crilly, J., Zimmerman, PA., Ranse, J. (2019) A retrospective cohort study evaluating the impact of a mass gathering (the 2018 Commonwealth Games) on emergency department presentations with communicable diseases. Paper presented at the 36th ACEM Annual Scientific Meeting, Hobart, 18th November.
Publications:
- Qiu, Y. S., Crilly, J., Zimmerman, P. A., & Ranse, J. (2020). Evaluating the impact of a mass gathering (2018 Commonwealth Games) on emergency department presentations with communicable diseases: A retrospective cohort study. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 93:305-310.
- Qiu, Y. S., Crilly, J., Zimmerman, P. A., & Ranse, J. The impact of mass gatherings on Emergency Department patient presentations with communicable diseases related to syndromic indicators: An integrative review. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2020.
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