Professor Vivienne Milch is Medical Director and Head, Clinical Policy Advice Branch, at Cancer Australia. She provides strategic clinical policy advice and 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. She has recently led the development of a National Framework for Genomics in Cancer Control as an early implementation priority of the Australian Cancer Plan.
Professor Milch is the medical advisor to the Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care on cancer screening policy, and Chair of the Clinical Advisory Group for the 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.