Associate Professor Ian Anderson

Associate Professor Ian Anderson has worked in Aboriginal (Koori) Health for about 15 years. He is Koori and has a professional background in medicine and social sciences. He has worked in a number of job contexts: as an Aboriginal health worker, health educator and general practitioner. More recently he was Chief Executive Officer of the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service, then the Medical Adviser to the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health in the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care. Ian has had involvement in Aboriginal health policy development for a number of years. Ian has written widely on issues related to Aboriginal health, identity and culture. He also has a broad interest in the sociology of health and illness, related policy analysis, and theory development in the social sciences.

As Director of the VicHealth Koori Health Research and Community Development Program, Ian is leading the development of an integrated health services research and community development program. The key focus of the program is to develop a focus in research action on gaps in knowledge critical to the improvement of health care delivery to Koori peopleThe development of partnerships with Victorian Koori communities is critical to the success of this program. Associate Professor Anderson is currently Director of the Centre for the Study of Health and Society, Deputy Director of the Department of Public Health and Deputy Head of the School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne.

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