GIH Steering Committee

The GIH Steering Committee meets throughout the year, to set strategic directions, discuss new initiatives and assess operational performance of the hub.

It is comprised of the Director of Operations (Professor Grant Montgomery), Operations Manager (Dr Brooke Purdue) and chaired by Professor Robert Henry (QAAFI) with representatives from partner organisations at the University including:

Faculty of Science:

• School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences (SCMB) 

Faculty of Medicine: 

• Diamantina Institute
• UQ Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR)

Research Institutes: 

• Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI)
• Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) 
• Queensland Brain Institute (QBI)
• Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB)
• Sustainable Mineral Institute (SMI)

Centers

• Center for Crop Science, QAAFI
• The Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE), SCMB
• Australian Infectious Disease Centre (AID)

Previous valued members of the GIH Steering Committee include Professor Dave Burt (Ex Chair and Director of UQ Genomics), Professor Brandon Wainright (Ex Institute for Molecular Biosciences), Dr Timothy Bredy (Queensland Brain Institute) and Professor Pankaj Shah (Queenland Brain Institute), Joanna Crawford (Ex GIH) and Dr Brooke Gardiner (Ex UQ Genomics).