Dash Heath-Paynter is the CEO of Health Equity Matters.
Health Equity Matters leads Australia’s community-controlled response to HIV as the sector’s peak body. The organisation delivers programming to build the capacity of its member organisations across Australia and implementing partners in the Indo-Pacific to support efforts to meet local and international targets to virtually eliminate HIV transmission.
Dash’s professional background includes more than fifteen years’ experience working as a lawyer, and in public health policy providing advice on human rights and preventative health focusing on health technology and systems strengthening, cancer control, sexual health, HIV/AIDS and other blood borne viruses.
Dash is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at the UNSW, a delegate on the Global Fund Developed Country NGO Delegation and has developed significant consumer representation
experience, including as a consumer member of the Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC) PICO Sub-Advisory Committee and on the Therapeutic Goods Administration Advertising Consultative Committee.