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Our staff

 

 Paul Martin Paul Martin has been Executive Director of Healthy Communities since 2005.  Originally a volunteer with the Qld AIDS Council in the early nineties, he went on to become a youth project officer and Education Strategies Officer at QuAC before moving to the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations in Sydney.  Paul then moved to England and worked in a number of HIV and sexual health roles, and was Manager of Health Promotion for the Brighton & Hove Primary Care Trust before coming back to Queensland.  Paul is responsible for the overall management of Healthy Communities, under the strategic direction of the elected Board of Directors.  He heads the Leadership Team and also manages the LGBT Health program and staff.  Paul represents the organisation on a number of external committees and in the media.
 Jan Thwaites My name is Jan Thwaites, Office Manager for Healthy Communities.   I am a born and bred Brisbane girl.   I have only had 3 jobs in my working life, starting off with being a bookbinder for a printing firm in Brisbane.   My parents and my brother all worked at the firm and I guess it was in my blood that I started my working life there as well.   After the company lost the Telecom Directory contract (as Telstra was know in the 80s)to a company in Victoria, most staff were made redundant.   I moved onto working for the children’s charity, Save the Children.   I remained in my role as Administration Manager for 13 years.   I started to feel my skills were not being utilised very well and decided that I needed a change of work environment which led me to applying for the position of Office Manager at Healthy Communities.   I enjoy my varied role so much at Healthy Communities and I feel that I may be here for quite a few years(funding permitted)  .  I work with a great group of people who are very passionate about what they do and I am very proud to be associated with the organisation.
 Jason Russo Jason Russo is Healthy Communities’ Fundraising and Marketing Coordinator and has over 11 years experience fundraising in the not-for-profit sector. Jason is Healthy Communities sole fundraising person and his job is to fundraise for all of Healthy Communities unfunded LGBT community work and to build the capacity of the organisation. His role is quiet varied and includes coordinating fundraising events, grant writing, developing fundraising appeals, raising awareness about the organisation, organising sponsorship, collecting donations, promoting our bequest program, assisting with LGBT community fundraising efforts and more.
 Nick Connor I’m Nick Connor, a Health Promotion Officer working on the Gay/MSM team in North Queensland,  which covers the area from Mackay to The Torres Strait. I’ve been with Healthy Communities for just over three years (as at Dec 2011) and have previously worked in migration, saunas and education. As well as engaging in outreach at local events the North Queensland Gay/MSM team helps support Healthy Communities’ telephone and online outreach work. We also engage with local health and social services to improve the way they work with LGBT people, as well as implementing Healthy Communities’ social marketing campaigns in our region. We also produce two newsletters; Culture in Cairns and Tropical Alternatives in Townsville. I’m HIV positive and like fishing.
 Kevin Scott My name is Kevin Scott and I am a Health Promotion Officer for Healthy Communities in the Cairns office. I am also the Centre Coordinator for the LGBT Resource Centre in Cairns called Base Camp. The area that this office and the HPO’s cover is from Mackay to the Top of Queensland. It is a very large area with lots of different communities.
I have been a Gay Rights advocate since the age of 16 when I joined the Gay Rights lobby in New Zealand fighting for Gay Law Reform. This fight has stayed with me throughout my life as our community dealt with a number of issues ,particularly HIV.
I have been working at Healthy Communities since 2006 and love the opportunity to work in and with my community. 
 Rosz Craig Rosz Craig works part-time for Healthy Communities as a Graphic Designer, job-sharing with Jayne Amble. The Graphic Designers do a range of print and web resources – ads, brochures, business cards, condom packs, books, stickers, promotional items, posters, pdf forms, web banners, marquees, billboards, signs etc. Interstate campaigns are also adapted to suit Queensland requirements. Rosz is also a visual artist. She has previously worked in paint, textiles, installation work and mail art, having been involved in over 70 Australian and international exhibitions since 1988. She has had digital artwork included in the Museum of Brisbane collection.
 David Wells My name is David Wells and I coordinate the Counselling and Group Work Program at Healthy Communities.  This position incorporates coordinating the netreach project (outreach on Gaydar), the 1800 men’s Sexual Health Phone Line, Gay Men’s Health Retreats, Counselling Services offered from healthy Communities Offices and Group Work activities.
Bernard Gardiner Bernard Gardiner is the part-time Clinical Liaison Co-ordinator focused on supporting doctors and nurses with health promotion through clinical settings.    He is completing a Masters in Health Promotion at University of the Sunshine Coast.   In the past Bernard served at Vice President and then General Manager of the Victorian AIDS Council/Gay Men’s Health Centre, and for seven years was the Manager of the Global HIV Programme of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies based in Geneva.   He still carries out short term consultancy work overseas from time to time, principally in PNG and Africa.   
 Craig Lewis
 As the campaigns & Resource coordinator in the sexual health team Craig Lewis is tasked with creating social marketing campaigns to encourage behaviour change in gay men and other men who have sex with men. He has previously held the positions of health promotion officer for Healthy Communities in the Brisbane and Cairns offices. He holds a bachelors degree in commerce and a diploma of community service / community work.
 Phil Sariago My name is Phillip Sariago, my cultural lines are Gurindji & Yaru from the Northern Territory and Western Australia and Greek heritage on my father’s side.
I am a Health Promotion Officer for the 2 Spirits Program team based in Brisbane, my role as Health Promotion Officer is to promote Sexual Health and Education to GLBTI Indigenous communities. The 2 Spirits team are committed to working with Indigenous LGBT Gay Men, Youth, Sistergirls, Lesbians & PLWHA for Queensland communities on the importance of “Safe Sex Practices and Regular Health Checkups”.
 Marcus Foth Marcus Foth has been appointed Webmaster of Healthy Communities in a casual capacity since 2001. After he led a team of Griffith University multimedia students that designed the “three dudes” logo and the first website for Queensland Positive People in 2000, he created the first website for what was then called the Queensland AIDS Council. In his full-time job, Marcus is Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow in the School of Design at Queensland University of Technology where he founded and directs the Urban Informatics Research Lab. He sometimes tweets @sunday9pm.
Kel Davies Hi this is Kel Davies, my job at Healthy Communities is around outreach and volunteer organisation. Basically I’m the person who connects our Health Promotion Officers with our volunteers. I organise recruitment, training, and upskilling for the volunteers and then I link them to parties, events or outreach that Healthy Communities organises. My goal is to build a culture at Healthy Communities where every volunteer feels valued and that we are offering as many opportunities as possible for the incredible people who help build our organisation.
  Having spent his formative years in New Zealand, famed for its sheep and exporting anyone with an IQ over 100, Graham Norton is understandably confused and often unintelligible. His early working life was spent in NSW talking about safe sex whilst rushing around making coffee and lending an understanding ear. When this began to pall, he moved to Queensland to work for Healthy Communities where he offers the limited pearls of wisdom he has gained to the gay men’s sexual health promotion team as their regional manager. He still claims to be motivated by talking about sex but now spends most of his time helping the team do this better.
  Sally Morris is the Client Support Coordinator at Healthy Communities where she provides case management and groups to LGBT people aged 15 and over who have a mental health concern.  Sally has a bachelor of Social Science (Human Services), a Diploma in Community Services Management and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Community Development.  Sally has worked closely with the LGBT community over the years being the Suicide Prevention Project Worker and Coordinator at Open Doors Youth Service, and a volunteer with Gay and Lesbian Welfare Association and the Healthy Communities Lesbian Health Action Group.
 Ricki Menzies
 Ricki Menzies is the State Wide Training and Development Coordinator. This role is part of the LGBT Health program. Ricki’s role is to design and facilitate the delivery of professional development training for health and community workers, medical professionals and those both in the government and not for profit sector to increase their capacity to work inclusively with LGBT clients. Resources are developed to complement the training sessions and these are available from the Healthy Communities website. Training so far has included not only the basic information required to achieve this change in services generally, but has also included specific sessions for the Trans, youth, aged, family, Indigenous and Multicultural sectors and soon for the disability sector as well. She is currently looking at including LGBT awareness into course curriculum working  at both  the university level and in the VET sector. Advocacy for members of the LGBT community is also part of her role as well as coordination of student placements.
Lyndal Cairns Lyndal Cairns left a decade-long career in newspapers to join the queer revolution and jump on board the social media juggernaut. It has been a steep learning curve but her work is constantly surprising and walking through the door every morning feels like visiting the family.