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[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]The Menzies Foundation congratulates Professor Glyn Davis AC on his appointment as the next Secretary for the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet (DPM&C) from 6 June. On his appointment, Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese […]

The Menzies Foundation is delighted to announce that our CEO, Liz Gillies, has been elected to join the Philanthropy Australia Board. As CEO of the Menzies Foundation, Liz is working with the Board, Menzies Foundation team and collaboration partners to support a leadership movement which encourages Australians to reflect on leadership, build their leadership capacity,

As featured in Philanthropy News – Leadership – April 2022 See yourself as a leader now. Leadership is an action. Not a position. – Cindy Page Menzies, the non-partisan Menzies Foundation was established in 1979 to create opportunities to support the next generation of Australian leaders. In May 2018, in celebration of our 40th year

‘This story originally appeared on MedTech Actuator.’  MedTech Actuator Menzies Fellow Dr Greg Stewart is fusing research with entrepreneurship to deliver better medicines for psychiatric disease. Developing New Therapeutics For Schizophrenia  Dr Greg Stewart is the Better Medicines program manager and Senior Research Fellow in the Neuromedicines Discovery Centre based at Monash University’s Faculty of Pharmacy

‘This story originally appeared on MedTech Actuator.’  MedTech Actuator Menzies Fellow Dr Warwick Nesbitt is fusing research with entrepreneurship to help reduce the prevalence and impact of cardiovascular disease. Unlocking The Potential Of Lab-On-A-Chip Technologies Warwick is the Laboratory Head of the Haematology Micro-platforms Group, based within the Australian Centre for Blood Disease at Monash University.

2016 NHMRC/RG Menzies Alumni and Lead Researcher Dr Alexis Whitton, is successfully contributing to the research and early detection of bipolar disorder. Dr Whitton completed a combined Masters in Clinical Psychology and PhD at UNSW. She worked with a team at the Black Dog Institute to develop Australia’s first fully automated web and mobile phone intervention

The Menzies Foundation is delighted to announce a partnership with People for Purpose in support of the Menzies School Leadership Initiative. People for Purpose work to ensure excellence in terms of leadership and governance in the for-purpose sector, knowing that great leadership can help solve our endemic social and environmental problems. Whether it be through

Investigating leadership, building insights, provoking action; applications are now open Australia wide for the 2022 Menzies School Leader Fellowship. Fellowships will be awarded to four innovative principals and assistant principals from Australian government, Catholic and independent schools. Powered by the Menzies Foundation and the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), the two-year, $150,000, leadership development

The Menzies Foundation is delighted to announce First Nation’s advocate and CEO of SNAICC – National Voice for Our Children, the national peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, Catherine Liddle, has been appointed to the Menzies Foundation Board. Ms Liddle, an Arrernte/Luritja woman from Central Australia and outstanding NFP leader, brings a

Research has found an early screening tool for autism developed by La Trobe University researchers – and already used across two Australian states and 10 other countries – is the world’s most effective. Published in JAMA Open, the five-year study of over 13,500 Victorian children found the SACS-R to be extremely accurate in identifying very