Russell Mcgowan Email and Phone Number

Russell McGowan is a bone marrow transplant survivor who has been active in the healthcare consumer movement since the early 1990s and is now retired from the workforce on health grounds. His working life had included teaching, field work, program management and policy development, mainly involving employment, education and training programs for indigenous people. At the national level, Russell has recently finished his term as Consumer Commissioner on the Australian Commission for Safety and Quality in Health Care and had previously been on the Governing Committee of the Consumers Health Forum of Australia and the Boards of the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards, the National Blood Authority and the Australian General Practice Network. Russell lives in Canberra and is President of the ACT Branch of the Public Health Association of Australia and sits on the national PHAA Board. He participates in numerous community and consumer healthcare organisations in the ACT. He was an office holder in the Health Care Consumers Association of the ACT for over a decade, and until recently he was deputy chair of the ACT Health Council on which he had served since its inception in 2002.Specialties: Providing consumer perspective on healthcare issues