Professor Brett Sutton AO is the Director of Health and Biosecurity at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. He leads CSIRO’s Health and Biosecurity group which focuses on research and development around Australia’s health and biosecurity preparedness and responsiveness, digital health, and health and wellbeing.

A qualified public health physician, Professor Sutton has extensive experience and clinical expertise in public health and communicable diseases, gained through experience in Government, emergency medicine and field-based international work.

He has held the role of Victoria’s Chief Health Officer together with the role of Victoria’s Chief Human Biosecurity Officer. Prior to his appointment as Chief Health Officer, Professor Sutton held several senior positions within the Victorian Department of Health, including as Deputy Chief Health Officer (Communicable Disease) and within their Health Protection Branch.

Professor Sutton also has specialist knowledge in tropical medicine and infectious disease, including in lower-middle income countries and complex humanitarian environments, and has worked in various specialised health roles in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Timor-Leste, and Fiji.

Professor Sutton is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, a Fellow of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine, and a Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (AFPHM). He is also a member of the Faculty of Travel Medicine.