Rebecca is an experienced and highly skilled Health Executive, with proven strategic and operational experience as an emergency response practitioner and educator. Previous to Sotero, she held senior roles within the Victorian Public Health Service.
As Respond Global and Sotero’s Director of Health Services she is responsible for ensuring clinical governance, driving quality and safety standards, developing health workforce recruitment and retention strategies, and supporting the health advisory and education services through consultancy advice and service delivery.
Rebecca utilises her extensive operational and strategic experience to lead teams in often difficult and unpredictable environments, creating high-performing teams to deliver quality evidence-based health care in resource-limited settings. She has deployed in response to several large-scale disasters and disease outbreaks, including cyclones in the Pacific, the Samoan Measles outbreak, the COVID-19 aged care crisis response in Victoria, the COVID-19 outbreak in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, and more recently the Victorian floods.
Rebecca is skilled in establishing strong collaborative partnerships to identify and implement workable solutions to complex problems, and in developing strategies and implementing practical tools to achieve common goals. Her experiences working in metro and regional health services within Australia has enabled a comprehensive understanding of the health system and the issues that can affect healthcare professionals from a strategic and operational perspective.
