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Dr Rob Moodie
CEO of the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth)
Dr Rob Moodie has been CEO of the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation since 1998. He graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1976 and later trained in Tropical Medicine at Paris University and Public Health at Harvard University. Since 1979 he has worked for Save the Children Fund, Medicins Sans Frontieres, Congress (the community-controlled Aboriginal Health Service in Alice Springs), the Burnet Institute and for WHO and UNAIDS.
Dr Moodie chairs the Victorian Premier's Drug Prevention Council, the Technical Panel to the Gates Foundation Avahan Program in India and the Melbourne Storm Rugby League Club. He writes a regular column on weird medical diseases for the new science magazine Cosmos and is co-editor of three books, including Hands on Health Promotion. Dr Moodie was named 2005 Victorian Father of the Year by the Father's Day Council of Victoria. Rob and his wife, Anne, have two children: Nick and Penny.
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