Our Board

Areti Gavrilidis has a business, health and science background with experience in the public and private sectors including health, education, business consulting and charity. She has a keen interest in mentoring, supporting and facilitating research to deliver outcomes. In 2002 she moved from the Austin Health to the PAH Centres for Health Research to support, facilitate and strengthen health and medical research within the hospital campus and district.In 2007 she was appointed as the Principal Researcher to assist a working group of the Smart State Council to prepare a report to advance Queensland’s health and medical research and development (R&D) outcomes, which led to the establishment of the QH Office of Health and Medical Research. In 2008 she was a recipient of an Australasian Research Management Society – International Network of Research Management Societies (ARMS -INORMS) Scholarship. In the same year she was awarded a Churchill Trust Fellowship to look at models facilitating translational research. She visited over 40 prestigious leading research Academic Health Science organisations in the USA, Canada and the UK and interviewed over 130 key individuals. Her scientific background is strengthened and augmented by her interest and experience in business management. She has qualifications in science, applied science, with postgraduate in Business and a Masters in Business Administration. Over the years she has served on a number of local, national and international committees and boards including the ARMS International Committee and the 2012 ARMS National Conference Organising and Program Committees. She was past- Secretary of the Churchill Fellows Association of Queensland.Examples of previous roles include: Director Research Development, Ethics and Policy, PAH Centres for Health Research Metro South Health and Hospital Services; General Manager – National SIDS Council of Australia; Senior Consultant – Consumer Market Intelligence Division of BIS Shrapnel; Lecturer -Swinburne and Monash Universities; Laboratory and Business Manager – Latrobe Regional Hospital.