Professor Vivienne Milch is Head, Clinical Policy Advice Branch and Medical Director 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 Clinical Advisory Group for BreastScreen Australia and the Expert Advisory Committee for the new National Lung Cancer Screening Program.

She holds professorial appointments at the Caring Futures Institute at Flinders University and the School of Medicine at University of Notre Dame, Sydney.

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