Improving and Integrating Urban Indigenous Health Services

Meet our Board

Chairperson 
Mr Kieran Chilcott (Yurarabul)

B.Ed, Dip Management, Cert IV in Mental Health, Project Management, Business (Governance) and in Assessment and Workplace Training

Nominated Director for Kalwun Development Corporation Ltd since late 2016.

The current CEO of Kalwun Development Corporation Ltd on the Gold Coast and a founding Director of IUIH, a current Director of the Gold Coast Primary Health Network and CheckUp Queensland and a former Chairperson of the Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council.

Member – Governance Committee

Director
Mr Allan Fisher (Wakka Wakka)

Nominated Director for Kambu Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation for Health since March 2021.

Experienced in Indigenous primary health care and the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health sector (State and Federal).

Member – Performance Quality and Risk Committee.

Director
Mr Anthony Morgan

Nominated Director for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Services Brisbane Ltd since 2022.

Director
Dr William (Bill) Glasson

AO MBBS, FRANZCO, FRACS, FRCOphth, FRACGP, Dip App Sci (Optom), GAICD

Independent Director since 2014.

A current Director at Terrace Eye Centre and Avant Mutual Group Ltd, Consultant Ophthalmologist at various hospitals and provider of outreach ophthalmology services to rural Indigenous Australian populations for over 30 years. Former Federal President AMA, awarded the AMA Gold medal in 2017.

Member – Performance Quality and Risk Committee

Director
Mr Maurice Burke

B.Com

Independent Director since 2015.

A retired accountant, director of Delamore Retirement Community and member on the following committees – Delamore Retirement Community Finance Committee (Chair), Gold Coast Waterways Authority Audit and Risk Committee and Missionary Franciscan Sisters Finance Committee.

Chair – Finance and Audit Committee
Member – Performance Quality and Risk Committee

Director
Mr Selwyn Button (Gungarri)

B.Ed, MBA

Independent Director since late 2019.

Registrar, Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC). Current Director of The Lowitja Institute and Queensland Rugby Union.

Former roles include – Assistant Director-General, State School – Indigenous Education, Queensland Department of Education Queensland and Chief Executive Officer of the Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council.

Member – Governance Committee
Member – Performance Quality and Risk Committee

Director
Ms Melody Ingra (Gooreng Gooreng/Wakka Wakka)

Nominated Director for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Service Brisbane Ltd since August 2023.  

Current – Chairperson at ATSICHS Brisbane since 2020, director of Gladstone Port Authority and National Cultural Liaison for Goodstart Early Learning.  

Experience in the education sector for over 25 years.  

Director
Mr Gregory Egert (Uncle Chege) (Noonuccal, Yuggera, Jagera)

Nominated Director for Yulu-Burri-Ba Aboriginal Corporation for Community Health since November 2021. 

Experienced in Indigenous primary health care, the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health sector and Indigenous adviser / Elder in residence at tertiary institutions.  

Member – Performance Quality and Risk Committee

Company Secretary
Mrs Charmaine Harch

LLB, Grad Dip Corp Gov, FGIA, FCG(CS)

Company Secretary since 2013.

Chartered Company Secretary and Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia. Charmaine has held corporate governance positions with several Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services and a large disability charity. She has a law degree and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Corporate Governance.

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