Reporting to the Board of the Australian e-Health Research Centre, the Research and Investment Advisory Committee performs an advisory function only. Meeting twice per annum, the Research and Investment Advisory Committee assists the Board to carry out the functions of the Australian e-Health Research Centre.
RIAC Terms of Reference
By understanding the Australian e-Health Research Centre's objectives and capabilities and CSIRO and Queensland Government priorities, provide high-level guidance about how the Australian e-Health Research Centre might best contribute to these larger priorities:
- Contribute to the setting of longer-term strategic directions by the Australian e-Health Research Centre serving the e-Health sector.
- Provide advice on the business and technical needs of customers and how the work of the Australian e-Health Research Centre can be better aligned with customers.
- Use their understanding of the Australian e-Health Research Centre's mandate and capabilities to act as advocates for the Australian e-Health Research Centre in various forums.
- Assist in reviewing progress towards achieving identified strategic objectives, including the methods and effectiveness of marketing, technology transfer and commercialisation strategies, and suggest improvements.
- Establish ad hoc working groups of Research and Investment Advisory Committee members, Australian e-Health Research Centre officers and co-opted experts to examine critical strategic issues from the e-Health sector and communicate these findings to the Board of the Australian e-Health Research Centre.
RIAC Members
- Chair - Dr Brian Richards
Visiting Fellow, Centre for Health Stewardship
Australian National University - Dr Michael Armitage
Chief Executive
Australian Health Insurance Association - Professor Bruce Barraclough AO
Medical Director
CSIRO ICT Centre - Professor Peter Brooks
Executive Dean, Health Sciences
The University of Queensland - Dr Stephen Duckett
Director Reform and Development Division
Queensland Health - Paul Summergreene
Chief Information Officer
Queensland Health - Dr David Green
Director Emergency Medicine
Gold Coast Hospital - Professor Lyn Griffiths
Head of School, Medical Science
Griffith University - Dr Richard Head
Director, CSIRO Preventative Health National Flagship - Gary Morgan
Chief Executive Officer
Australian e-Health Research Centre - Dr Michael Steyn
Director Department of Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine
Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital - Dr Simon Warfield
Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
Director of Computational Radiology Laboratory
Children's Hospital, Boston - Professor Ross Young
Director IHBI
Queensland University of Technology