Jeannette Young MBBS, MBA, FRACMA, FCHSM

Dr. Young is the Queensland Chief Health Officer and one of the Deputy Directors-General in the Department of Health. She has specialist qualifications 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 at Griffith University, the Queensland University of Technology, and the University of Queensland.

Her normal role includes responsibility for health disaster planning and response; aeromedical retrieval services; licensing of private hospitals and schools of anatomy; policy regarding organ and tissue donation, blood, medicines and poisons, cancer screening, communicable diseases, environmental health, preventive health; and medical workforce planning and leadership. Since January this year, she has been the State Health Incident Controller for the management of the COVID-19 Pandemic response. Whilst she has concentrated on the pandemic, Bronwyn Nardi followed by Professor Keith McNeil has been Acting DDG for Prevention Division. Dr. Young is a member of numerous state and national committees and boards including the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee.