Appointments, achievements

Asanga Abeyaratne (Menzies School Health Research) has the NT Government’s Father Frank Flynn Fellowship for ’23 – on health informatics.

Michelle Gillespie starts next month as Victoria U’s inaugural chief student officer. She moves from business software provider (including for education) Technology One. She has a background in student admin, both at Swinburne U and Uni Melbourne.

 As of July, Rhonda Itaoui will be director of the Centre for Western Sydney and Western Sydney U. Andy Marks continues as centre ED.

The Victorian Premier’s awards for health and medical research include, * Jaithri Ananthapavan (Deakin U): public health research * Shawana Andrews (Uni Melbourne): Aboriginal researcher *Owen Bradfield (Uni Melbourne): health services research * Kathryn Connelly (Monash Health): clinical research * Emily Lelliott (Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute): basic science *