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Ben Tooth

Deputy Chair

Ben is an experienced Board Director and Executive Manager with over 15 years’ experience in senior management health, finance, and accounting roles. Ben is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company DIrectors and fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

Ben has broad experience in the health sector leading teams and in consulting roles in both the public and private sector. Ben is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Ramsay Health Care’s Cairns Facilities. Ben is a purpose driven leader who is passionate about leading high performance teams, and delivering on strategies that ultimately lead to greater outcomes for the North Queensland community.

Ben strives for continued benefit for the entire North Queensland region and provides leadership and support to various organisations in director and committee roles including with Cairns Regional Council, Cairns Bank, and the Cairns Catholic Diocese development fund, and previously with Regional Development Australia.

Prior to becoming Chair, Ben held the roles of Deputy Chair and Chair of the Finance, Audit and Risk Management Committee.

Northern Queensland Primary Health Network acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as Australia’s First Nation Peoples and the Traditional Custodians of this land.

We respect their continued cultural and spiritual connection to country, waters, kin, and community.

We also pay our respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging as the custodians of knowledge and lore.

We are committed to making a valued contribution to the wellbeing of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of northern Queensland.

NQPHN’s offices are proudly on Gimuy-Walubara Yidinji and Yirrganydji Country (Cairns), Bindal and Wulgurukaba Country (Townsville), and Yuwibara Country (Mackay).