Jeannette Young

Dr Jeannette Young has been the Chief Health Officer of Queensland since 2005 and since August 2015 she has also held the role of Deputy Director-General Prevention Division. Previously, she worked in a range of positions in hospitals in Queensland and Sydney. She has specialist quali cations as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators and as a Fellow by Distinction of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Environment and Population Health at Grif th University and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health and Social Work at QUT.

Her role includes, among other things, responsibility for health disaster planning and response; aero- medical retrieval services; environmental health responses; managing communicable disease planning and outbreaks; licensing of private hospitals and schools of anatomy; organ and tissue donation; blood, poisons and medicines; cancer screening; preventive health programs and initiatives; and medical workforce planning and leadership. Dr Young produces a report every two years on The Health of Queenslanders to report on the health status and burden of disease of the Queensland population.