Professor Madeleine Skellern is Director of the National Health, Sustainability and Climate Unit within the interim Australian Centre for Disease Control, operating as part of the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney School of Public Health. Madeleine led development of Australia’s first National Health and Climate Strategy, published in December 2023. Madeleine worked for many years in England as an academic health economist and in a variety of roles in the English National Health Service before returning to Australia to take up her current role.