Chief Executive Officer
Chris Boyd-Skinner
Chris Boyd-Skinner is DHSCA's Chief Executive Officer. He is a practicing clinician with over 15-years’ experience in critical care and has led national and international clinical governance in digital health initiatives for the Australian Government.
Chris is a consultant to the World Health Organization’s Quality of Care and Patient Safety Office in Athens, Greece, having worked across child and adolescent mental health and digital mental health projects internationally. He is a founding member of the Ethical Assurance of Data-Driven Technologies for Mental Healthcare sub-committee hosted by the IEEE Standards Association at Cambridge University and the Alan Turing Institute, London.
Chris holds a Bachelor of Nursing, post-graduate qualifications in Critical Care and a dual Master of International Public Health and Master of Health Management.
In 2022 he was the recipient of a distinguished Winston Churchill Trust Fellowship.
Chris leads DSHCA with his expertise spanning international public health, digital mental health policy and legislation, the safe and responsible use of AI and patient safety in the delivery of health technologies.
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Head of Program Delivery
Emma Mathison
Emma Mathison is DHSCA's Head of Program Delivery. She has worked in healthcare safety, quality and policy roles, including for Australian Government portfolios across digital health technologies and cancer strategy.
Emma holds a Bachelor of Science (Health and Sports Science) and a Master of International Public Health. She brings over a decade of experience across project delivery, clinical governance, digital health and healthcare standards within Australian government settings and the broader health sector.
At the Australian Digital Health Agency, Emma supported implementation of Australia's National Clinical Governance Framework for Digital Health, alongside internal clinical governance maturity uplift across the Agency's corporate divisions.
Emma's areas of expertise include clinical governance for digital health, national standards and accreditation, communications, and women's and maternal healthcare.
DHSCA Clinical and Technical Experts
DHSCA holds a pool of both clinical and technical governance experts to support its engagements. Their expertise span clinical governance for digital health, data, cyber security, healthcare strategy, privacy, medico-legal practice and information security management.
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