As part of From Framework to Field: Health Apps for Preventative Care, AIDH has established an Advisory Committee to provide expert guidance and sector insight throughout the development of the project.

The Advisory Committee brings together representatives from across the health, digital health, research, consumer and technology sectors to help ensure the project’s resources are practical, relevant and informed by diverse perspectives.

The Committee will support the development of the following two project’s key outputs:

• · A webinar series exploring the development and use of health apps in preventative care
• · A self-paced online course covering the same themes

Bringing together expertise from across the sector

Health apps have an increasing role to play in supporting preventative care, but their successful development and use depends on a broad range of considerations including safety, quality, usability, privacy, clinical effectiveness and consumer needs.

The Advisory Committee has been established to help ensure the project’s resources reflect real-world experiences and challenges across the health ecosystem. Members will provide feedback on project resources, and contribute expertise to topic development.

The Committee’s input will help strengthen the practical value of the resources and ensure they are relevant to the needs of health professionals, health services, app developers, researchers, policymakers and consumers.

We thank Advisory Committee members for their time and contribution to this project and look forward to working together over the coming months.

Announcing the Advisory Committee

Andrew Wiltshire (MTAA)
Andrew Wiltshire is a senior health and digital health policy leader with more than 30 years’ experience across clinical care, medical technology, and health policy in Australia and the Asia–Pacific region. He is currently Head of Digital Health at the Medical Technology Association of Australia (MTAA), leading industry policy and engagement on digital health, data, and regulation. A former registered nurse, Andrew has held senior roles at Medtronic and Amazon Web Services, bringing a unique cross‑sector perspective that bridges clinical practice, technology, and public policy.

Emma Hossack (MSIA)
Emma is a qualified lawyer with a B.A (Hons) LLB, and LLM, and practised at Gadens before commercialising a CRC and running health and legal software companies. Emma is CEO of the Medical Software Industry Association (MSIA) and was immediate past President of the MSIA. Emma’s other interests and positions include Past-President of the Australian and New Zealand International Association of Privacy Professionals, and Director of the Australian Digital Health Agency. Currently Emma is on the Home Affairs Minister’s Cyber Executive Council, and the Minister for Aged Care’s Aged Care’s Implementation Taskforce, Member of the Victorian Department of Health HIE Expert Advisory Board, the Melbourne University Law School Foundation Board, a member of the Australian Digital Health Agency Connected Care Council and  representative on various government reference groups including the Commonwealth Department of Human Services Stakeholders Consultative and Compliance Groups.

Christine Kwong CHIA
Christine Kwong is a Registered Nurse, Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA) and digital health leader with experience across clinical practice, clinical governance and healthcare transformation. Her expertise spans the digital health lifecycle, including clinical design, implementation, risk management, privacy and regulatory compliance for software as a medical device. Christine is passionate about ensuring digital health solutions are safe, evidence-based, practice and centred on the needs of consumers and clinicians.

Lisa Kalman
Lisa Kalman is Lead, Clinical Strategy and Digital Health at the National Heart Foundation of Australia. She specialises in translating clinical evidence and health policy into safe, scalable digital health solutions. Lisa led the digital implementation of Australia’s cardiovascular disease risk guideline, including the Aus CVD Risk calculator and Aus CVD Risk-i, interoperable SMART on FHIR clinical decision support. Her experience spans clinical governance, interoperability, AI governance, implementation and cross-sector partnerships. A registered pharmacist, she brings a strong clinical and health system perspective to the adoption of preventative health apps.

Liz Keen
Liz Keen is a registered nurse and healthcare governance leader who works where health, care and technology meet. Over more than 30 years she has moved from frontline primary healthcare and ambulance services in New Zealand and the United Kingdom to national digital health leadership in Australia. Currently working in consultancy, Liz is Head of Healthcare Governance. As a previous Director Clinical Governance at the Australian Digital Health Agency, Liz led and had published the first Clinical Governance Framework for Digital Health in Australia. Liz holds a Bachelor of Nursing and a Postgraduate Certificate in Health Service Management (Safety and Quality). She is a member of the AIDH Regulation, Standards and Assurance Frameworks SME Panel. Liz believes healthcare must remain human, and that every technology decision is now a care decision

Marc Belej
Marc is a digital health executive and non-practising medical practitioner with 25 years across clinical care, startups and enterprise health technology. He began in emergency and critical care medicine, co-founded a clinical information systems company, then held architecture and executive roles at Allscripts and Telstra Health. Recently he has led the Interoperability strategy and architecture design for South Australia’s public health system, embedding national data sharing standards in the digital estate and driving adoption of modern software development approaches for clinician, consumer and system benefit. Marc is Chief Technology Officer at the Heart Foundation and a member of the AIDH industry advisor panel.

Paul Cooper FAIDH CHIA
Advocate for digital transformation, especially in healthcare, with broad expertise including governance of AI in health, organisational change and tertiary education building on an early career background in medical research. Expertise in developing and delivering engaging content including courses in digital health at post-graduate Masters and MBA level units. Currently actively participating in research in the field of digital health with a focus on digital inclusion and equity in the emerging AI era. Highly experienced facilitator, caring moderator and event chair. Loves writing and producing content (yes – actual content, from a human!) Serves and volunteers on a number of ethics committees, community health, and medical research boards. Lifelong interest in space and science, and runs a private blog for friends on cosmology and space happenings. Enjoys travel photography, capturing moments where humans are directly connected to their environment.

Pip Brennan
Pip Brennan is a long-term health consumer advocate who has recently focused her attention almost purely on digital health advocacy. This is where the empowerment and transformation is at. She is currently chairing WA’s Electronic Medical Record Consumer Advisory Group and working with Sparked on expanding their consumer involvement.

What’s next?

The project has already reached its first milestone with the launch of the web-based Health Apps Self-Assessment demo tool. Over the coming months, AIDH will continue to develop the webinar series and self-paced course, supported by the guidance of the Advisory Committee.

Together, these resources aim to provide practical, evidence-based support for people developing, evaluating and using health apps in preventative care.

Learn more about From Framework to Field: Health Apps for Preventative Care