Maxine Whittaker
Maxine A. Whittaker, MBBS, MPH, PhD, FAFPHM GAICD is the Emeritus Professor at James Cook University; Civil Society and Community Representative to the Global Fund 4th Regional Artemisinin Initiative in the Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Steering Committee and Affiliate Faculty at Harvard Medical School. She is a public health physician, applied medical anthropologist and community and health systems researcher who is an international expert on improving the health systems and services to increase accessibility and acceptability of quality services to populations and a particular focus on equity and community ownership and engagement. She is a public health leader in One Health (human-animal-environment-plant interface) She has worked in global health for more than 35 years and lived/worked in many countries in Africa, Asia and Oceania. She was the foundation secretariat co-coordinator of the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN), and the director of the Australian Initiative for the Control and Elimination of Malaria (AICEM) and its predecessor Pacific Malaria Initiative Support Centre PacMISC). Maxine has worked closely over the last 30 years on health and for community systems strengthening including gender equality, disability and social inclusiveness. She has published more than 120 peer-reviewed publications, (h Index of 39, i10 index of 92), including for the malaria eradication research agenda and written several project documents for development partners and countries, policy briefings, briefing papers, book chapters and has been a regular speaker at Rotary Againt Malaria Australia's annual conferencecommissioned papers. She is an editor with the Malrai Journal, American Journal of Tropical Health and Medicine and CABI ONe Health. Since 2010 Professor Whittaker has been a Principal, Chief or Co-Investigator in more than $85,000,000 worth of nationally and internationally competitive, industry and other research grants and contracts. She is a member of the Quadripartite One Health High Level Expert Advisory Panel, the Australian Government’s Partnerships for a Healthy Region, a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission for People-centered Care and an Independent Review Panel Member for the Asia-Pacific Observatory for Health Systems and Polices. She retired in October 2021 from the position of Dean of the College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences at James Cook University. In 2017 she was awarded the Royal Australasian College of Physicians International Medal, in recognition of outstanding service in developing countries.
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