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Ruth Azzopardi

Executive Director Health Services Commissioning

Ruth Azzopardi is the Executive Director for Health Services Commissioning at NQPHN.

Ruth is an experienced Health Service Director with skills in leadership, management, partnership development, quality improvement, service redesign, and delivering integrated health care services.

She has a clinical background as an occupational therapist working in rehabilitation and community health, and has spent more than 15 years in senior leadership, management, and quality improvement positions across primary health care, state government, and hospital settings.

Ruth’s experience includes working in executive level roles in large metropolitan health services in Victoria, at Medicare Local, and the Victorian Department of Health.

She has a strong commitment to delivering comprehensive and equitable primary healthcare and values the principles of equity, accessibility, efficiency, and evidenced-based and person-centred care.

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).