NHMRC senior staff
Executive
» Professor Warwick Anderson AM, Chief Executive Officer
» Dr Clive Morris, Deputy Head and General Manager
Leadership team
Dr Tim Dyke, Executive Director Quality and Regulation Branch
Professor John McCallum, Executive Director Health Evidence and Advice Branch
Professor Elim Papadakis, Executive Director Research Investment Branch
Cathy Clutton, Executive Director Corporate Services Branch
Dr Tim Dyke, Executive Director Quality and Regulation Branch
Dr Tim Dyke joined NHMRC in 2008. Previous Commonwealth appointments include Team Leader, Veterinary Antibiotics and Vaccines, Principal Scientist and most recently, Program Manager, Quality Assurance and Compliance, with the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA).
Tim obtained his veterinary science degree from the University of Sydney in 1982 and holds masters degrees in veterinary science and business administration. He completed his PhD, a Fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology, and postdoctoral work at The Ohio State University. By examination, he is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology and a Fellow of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists.
Professor John McCallum, Executive Director Health Evidence and Advice Branch
Professor John McCallum, a Senior Scientist (Public Health), joined the NHMRC as Executive Director - Health Evidence and Advice Branch in 2010.
His major research activities include the Dubbo Longitudinal Study, which has contributed to more than 60 peer-reviewed publications, national policy projects, the Australia-Japan Collaboration in Aged Care, the International Asset and Health Dynamics of the ‘Old’ Old (AHEAD) project, and the Vietnam Veterans Mortality Study.
John completed Economics and Psychology, won the 1977 University Medal at University of Queensland, then Bachelor, Masters and Doctoral studies at Nuffield College in Oxford University (UK). In 2003 he was awarded a Federation Medal ‘for outstanding service as a researcher to ageing and aged care issues’ to sit alongside his military medals, awarded for service in the Pacific Island Regiment.
He was Deputy Vice Chancellor (Educational Programs) and Director TAFE at Victoria University 2004-2010, and Executive Dean of Health at the University of Western Sydney 1995 - 2004, where he received the Campbelltown Council Community Service Award as Campus Provost. He has also worked at Griffith University, the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University, the Andrus Gerontology Centre at the University of Southern California, Nanzan University in Nagoya and the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology - both in Japan.
Professor Elim Papadakis, Executive Director Research Investment Branch
Professor Elim Papadakis leads the Research Investment Branch, which assists with the development of strategies for investing the Medical Research Endowment Account (MREA) in the best and most relevant research for the health of all Australians, and manages the call for applications and the peer review process for all NHMRC funding schemes.
Before joining NHMRC in January 2008, Professor Papadakis served on Commonwealth Government Interdepartmental Committees on the UN Biological Weapons Convention, science agency responses to the tsunami disaster, and the Accessibility Framework. He has been a representative on the RQF Metrics Working Group; the Working Group on the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research; and the Steering Committee of the OECD/GSF workshop on Science & Technology for a Safer Society. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Human Frontier Science Program Organization.
His prior appointments include those of Executive Director, Social Behavioural and Economic Sciences at the Australian Research Council and, at the Australian National University, Professor of Modern European Studies, Head of the School of Social Sciences in the Faculty of Arts, and Foundation Director of the National Europe Centre, the inaugural Europe Centre funded by the European Commission in Australasia. He has held appointments as Professor of Sociology and Head of Department at the University of New England and Research Fellow in Social Policy at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Professor Papadakis completed his doctorate in 1983 at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of several influential studies and books on attitudes to welfare in Australia and the United Kingdom, and on environmental politics and policy. He is also a recipient of prizes for outstanding contributions to such journals as the International Journal of Public Opinion Research (Robert M Worcester Prize) and The Australian Journal of Political Science (Henry Mayer Prize). He has worked with researchers on international research projects and published with teams based in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom and the United States.
Cathy Clutton, Executive Director Corporate Services Branch
Cathy Clutton is Executive Director, Corporate Services Branch, and Secretary to the Council of NHMRC. Her current responsibilities cover the diversity of corporate issues including property and business services, ICT, finance, human resources, council meeting and member services and secretariat support, and procurement.
Cathy is a career public servant, joining the health portfolio in 1979. Since then she has contributed to or managed a wide range of health programs notably corporate services including patents, health-related community organisation funding and management support, biological standards, health outcomes and research.
Cathy joined the NHMRC in the mid 1980s and has held a variety of roles. As well as Secretary to the Council she has operated as publications manager, and manager of the research ethics, health ethics, public health and evidence-based medicine programs.
Cathy has formal qualifications in management and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Public Health.