Professor Vivienne Milch, MBBS(Hons), MHPol, is Medical Director and Head, Clinical Policy Advice Branch at Cancer Australia. She provides strategic clinical policy leadership to support Cancer Australia’s work to minimise the impact of cancer, address disparities, and improve the health outcomes of people affected by cancer.

Professor Milch is also the medical advisor on cancer screening policy at the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing and Chair of both the Expert Advisory Committee for the new National Lung Cancer Screening Program and the Clinical Advisory Group for BreastScreen Australia. She holds professorial appointments at the Caring Futures Institute at Flinders University and the School of Medicine at University of Notre Dame, Sydney, where she teaches medical and other postgraduate students about cancer prevention, screening and early detection.

Prior to joining Cancer Australia, Professor Milch was a General Practitioner and clinical researcher at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research.