Professor Diana Lynne Madden

BSc(Med)Hons1, MBBS, MPH, MSc, FFPH (UK), FAFPHM, FPHAA, MAICD
Professor, Population and Planetry Health and Population and Public Health Domain

Email: lynne.madden@nd.edu.au
Phone: 02 8204 4478

• Biography

  Professor Lynne Madden is the inaugural Professor of Population and Planetary Health at the School of Medicine, Sydney, The University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA). She was Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching for the medical programs from 2012-2020, and continues to support this role as co-Associate Dean. In 2020 she was appointed the Domain Head Population and Public Health for the medical programs and the course coordinator for Environment, Society and Health within the new Graduate Diploma of Health Sciences. Since 2019 Professor Madden has been the Chair, Health Education and Training Institute Higher Education Academic Board and a Member of the Higher Education Governing Council, for NSW Health. She is a Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (AFPHM) and the Faculty of Public Health (UK). She obtained her MB BS and research degrees, BSc (Med) Hons 1 and MSc, at the University of New South Wales and her Master of Public Health from Liverpool University in England

  Professor Madden was the President of AFPHM and a member of the Board of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians from May 2016 - May 2018. Prior to this she was President elect AFPHM for 2 years and Chair of the AFPHM Faculty Education Committee for 8 years. Here she oversaw the development and delivery of the Public Health Medicine specialist training program. She was awarded the AFPHM President’s award twice, in 2012 for her contribution to Education, Training and Assessment and in 2019 for her contribution to the Faculty. As Manager of the Population Health Training and Workforce Unit at the NSW Ministry of Health for 18 years she was responsible for development and delivery of the multidisciplinary NSW Public Health Officer Training Program (PHOTP), the NSW Aboriginal Population Health Training Initiative and was the Editor of the NSW Public Health Bulletin.

  Professor Madden has published extensively on public health workforce and competency based education and, over the past 10 years, on the contribution of health profession’s education to adaptation and mitigation efforts to address the health effects of climate change. She Chairs the Climate Change and Health Working Group of the Medical Deans of Australia and New Zealand and was awarded the 2019 Bond University Sustainability of Heathcare Award (Education) for this work on climate change and health in medical curricula in Australasia. This was further recognised by The Educators’ Innovative Universities Awards 2020. She is a member of the RACP Climate Change and Health Reference Group. Professor Madden is a Trustee of the Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation of the Australian Museum which supports research into the Great Barrier Reef and marine ecosystems.