Dr Richard Rosewarne is a psychologist and has worked in the Health and Aged Care field for the past 30 years. He has extensive experience in the health, general aged care and aged psychiatry sectors. Richard offers a high degree of technical competence honed over many years as a senior academic, as well as the breadth of knowledge and experience needed to undertake consultancy work in the healthcare sector.

Janet Opie has been a senior research consultant with AACS for the past 15 years. She has worked in the Health Care Sector for over 30 years, firstly as a nurse and subsequently as a registered psychologist and Research Fellow at the Aged Mental Health Research Group in the Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash University. She also has clinical expertise in dementia care.

As a senior consultant at AACS, Andrea’s key responsibility is to analyse the effectiveness of support and education programs within the health, aged, community and disability care sectors. Her work includes conducting national trials and educational forums, as well as reporting using qualitative and quantitative data.

Long Nguyen has worked as a business and data analyst across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. He brings a wealth of local and international experience to AACS, where he is responsible for designing and developing data systems.

Ella has worked in the health and aged care sector for many years developing educational material, managing education services and presenting training courses and workshops.  Ella was the General Manager (Education Services) for Alzheimer’s Victoria and the Alzheimer’s Australia national education specialist.

When it comes to actuarial analysis, few people have the credentials that Hugh Sarjeant does. His experience includes working with the Commonwealth and Victorian governments, as well as being a partner or senior member of various actuarial firms. He has written valuation and stochastic projection systems for superannuation funds, life insurers, workers compensation schemes and insurance pools.

With more than forty years’ experience in various social research fields, Dr Malcolm Rosier brings unique skills to AACS, including data collection and management, sampling design and execution, and instrument development using item response theory (IRT) approaches. His main research interest is in building quantitative models to identify relationships between key factors influencing a criterion of interest.