New CEO appointment: Public Health Association

New CEO appointment: Public Health Association

Public Health Association media release 24 July 2012

The Public Health Association (PHA) is pleased to announce the appointment of new CEO Warren Lindberg, who will commence work on Sunday 2 September 2012.

Mr Lindberg has a distinguished public health and managerial past. Since March 2007 he has been Group Manager, Public Health, now part of the Ministry of Health’s National Health Board, where he was responsible for contracting public health services.

However, he is perhaps best known for his 12 years as the first Executive Director of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation (1986 to 1998), and as Manager of the Project to Counter Stigma and Discrimination Associated with Mental Illness from 1999 to 2001, including the launch of the mass media campaign “Like Minds, Like Mine”.

He has been a Human Rights Commissioner (2001-2006) and in 1999 was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to welfare.

Mr Lindberg said he feels very privileged at this new opportunity and is looking forward to working collaboratively to help improve health for all New Zealanders.

He replaces Dr Gay Keating, who resigned as the PHA’s National Executive Officer in November 2011. In the meantime the PHA has been led by Acting Manager Janice Burns.

PHA President Monica Briggs says Mr Lindberg’s appointment as CEO marks a new chapter for the PHA.

“Warren is an experienced not-for-profit CEO, well versed in the frameworks and evidence useful to public health analysis, and an articulate public and media spokesperson. We are proud and excited to have him at the helm.”

The PHA is a voluntary association working across a range of disciplines that takes a leading role in promoting public health. Find out more at www.pha.org.nz.

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