Activating Your Health Leadership

Professor of Marketing, Melbourne Business School

Jill Klein is a Professor of Marketing at the Melbourne Business School and a Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne. She is an internationally recognised expert in healthcare leadership. She holds a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan and has held academic appointments at Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) and INSEAD.

Jill’s research focuses on leadership, resilience, and decision making in both business and clinical environments. Her work has been published in leading journals including the British Medical Journal, Medical Education, Journal of Marketing, Management Science, and Journal of Consumer Psychology.

Jill teaches Leadership, Managerial Judgment, and Well-Being/Resilience across programs such as the Bastas Academy for Healthcare Leadership, Senior Executive MBA, and the Women in Leadership Programs.

Jill is a frequent keynote speaker at healthcare conferences and has been featured in many media outlets.

Professor of Public Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

Rob Moodie is Professor of Public Health at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, and Honorary Professor at the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Malawi.

He was trained in medicine and public health and worked in refugee health care in the Sudan for Save the Children Fund and Medicins Sans Frontieres, and later for Congress, the Aboriginal Community controlled health service in Central Australia from 1982-1988.

He worked for many years on HIV prevention for the Health Department Victoria, the Burnet Institute and WHO's Global Programme on AIDS. He was then appointed as the inaugural Director of Country Support for UNAIDS in Geneva from 1995-98 and was a member of the Commission on AIDS in the Pacific.

He chaired the Technical Advisory Panel of Avahan, the Gates Foundation's HIV prevention program in India from 2004-2013. He was CEO of VicHealth from 1998-2007, the world's first health promotion foundation.

He was Victorian Father of the Year in 2005 and chaired the Melbourne Storm from 2006-2010 and was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2014. From 2008-2011 he chaired the National Preventative Health Taskforce in Australia. He chaired the Gavi Vaccine Alliance's Evaluation Advisory Committee from 2013-2019.

He recently led the Lancet series on the Commercial Determinants of Health. He currently serves on several not-for-profit boards and committees including Movember, FREO2 and Health Futures Australia.