Our Board members

National Boards

Linda Renouf

Community member, Paramedicine Board of Australia

Being a board member affords board members the unique opportunity to be involved in the health sector at a National level. It gives you an opportunity to contribute and participate in matters within the health sector, and within the National Scheme that affects all of us at some time or somebody that we know as end-users of the health system. You are afforded the opportunity to participate in matters of governance and decision making within the framework of the health sector on a National level.

Note, the underlying reason that we are all here is to ensure that the public does have adequate protection in terms of public health and safety. I get most satisfaction out of sharing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island perspective with the Board and Ahpra in general.

Justin Scanlan

Practitioner member, Occupational Therapy Board of Australia

I learned on the Board that our main role is the protection of the public rather than promotion of the profession. We protect the public by supporting practitioners to practice safely by setting standards. There is certainly a way of supporting the development of the profession through making sure that the public can trust practitioners, but our primary focus is and always must be on protecting the public.