National Blood Authority Board

Professor George Rubin MB BS (Hons) FRACP FAFPHM FAChAM. George has been on the executives of the South Eastern Sydney and the Illawarra Area Health Services (now with the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District), first as Director of Population Health, Planning and Performance and since 2009 as Director of Clinical Governance. He is Professor of Public Health at both the Universities of Sydney and NSW and is the immediate past President of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine and Board member of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

He served formerly as Director of the Centre for Health Service and Workforce Research, in Sydney’s West. Before that he was Director of Epidemiology and Health Services Evaluation and Chief Health Officer with NSW Health where he was instrumental in developing public health infrastructure and education in NSW. He was chair of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (ATAGI) from 1997-2005 and served two consecutive terms on the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Health Advisory Committee. For 10 years he was a medical epidemiologist working in reproductive health with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and with the Ford Foundation in Bangladesh. He currently works part time as an addiction medicine specialist at the Langton Centre in Sydney. He has worked internationally in the Americas and Asia and has published more than 150 scientific papers in the peer reviewed literature including reports on the appropriateness of use of blood products.

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