Advisory Groups
Cancer Australia aims to link with the wide range of stakeholders who inform and advise us on cancer priorities and programs.
One way we are effectively doing this is by involving clinicians, consumers and others in expert National Advisory Groups, working groups and steering committees for specific projects and through an inter-governmental Strategic Forum.
National Advisory Groups
Our National Advisory Groups provide advice and direction on a range of issues and activities undertaken by Cancer Australia. They recommend strategies and actions to improve cancer control and outcomes for people affected by cancer.
Our current National Advisory Groups focus on:
- consumer interests,
- research,
- improving cancer data,
- the National Centre for Gynaecological Cancers, and
- lung cancer.
Advisory Groups include consumers, health policy makers, health professionals and researchers who have expertise across the cancer continuum and across all relevant medical disciplines.
Members do not represent a particular group or organisation but are members in their own right. They were selected from nominations from a wide range of relevant national groups and organisations to ensure a broad spectrum of expertise and experiences, gender balance and geographic representation across Australia. Some members were invited directly due to their particular experience or expertise.
We aim to include at least two consumer representatives on each group. Consumer representatives were selected following a national call for applications from individuals and nominations from cancer consumer groups.
Strategic Forum
Cancer Australia has established an inter-governmental Strategic Forum which brings together, for the first time, clinicians and senior health department officials from the Australian Government and from each state and territory government.
The Strategic Forum provides advice on policy development and implementation to advance national cancer control activities in collaboration with the states and territories.
