Joint WAGER/WADB Independent Advisory Committee
In accordance with the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Enabling Grant guidelines WAGER, in collaboration with the Western Australian DNA Bank, has established a properly constituted common Independent Advisory Committee (IAC) of 'eminent persons' who are independent of WAGER and the WADB and represent a range of consumer, scientific and social scientific disciplines from across Australia. The Committee, which operates under defined terms of reference, offers advice to the WAGER Executive and Scientific Committees and the WADB Management Committee on matters such as stakeholder management, probity, advocacy and, if required, dispute resolution.
The Committee currently consists of the following members:
Professor Tony McMichael (Chair)
Director, National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
Professor Margaret Otlowski
Deputy Head of School, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania., Hobart, Tasmania.
Professor Terry Speed
Head of Division, Bioinformatics Division, The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Victoria.
Professor Bruce Armstrong, AM
Professor of Public Health and Medical Foundation Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales.
Professor John Hopper, AM
Director, Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria.
Ms Barbara Daniels
Health Consumers' Council of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia.
Professor Lyle Palmer (ex officio)
Director, Western Australian Genetic Epidemiology Resource, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia.
Professor Lou Landau (ex officio)
Chair Western Australian DNA Bank Management Committee, Perth, Western Australia.
