Rob Moodie

Rob Moodie is Professor of Public Health at the University of Melbourne’s School of Population and Global Health.

He was trained in medicine and public health and worked in refugee health in the Sudan with SCF and MSF, and in Central Australia with Aboriginal community-controlled health services. He was the inaugural Director of Country Programs for UNAIDS in Geneva from 1995-98 and was CEO of the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) from 1998-2007.

He chaired the Australian National Preventative Health Taskforce from 2008-2011, and the GAVI Alliance’s Evaluation Advisory Committee from 2013-2019.

He is the lead author of the seminal Lancet paper on NCDs, Profits and Pandemics.

He advises WHO in the areas of NCDs and Health Promotion.

He has been actively teaching leadership skills and health promotion for the last fourteen years and has trained over 2,000 participants Australia, South Asia, Mozambique and Malawi.

He was the chair of Australia’s leading rugby league franchise, the Melbourne Storm from 2005 but was unceremoniously dumped in 2010!

He has co-authored four books including Hands on Health Promotion and Recipes for a Great Life.