Professor Ian Anderson is the Director of the Centre for Health and Society, and of Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit. He is also currently the Research Director for the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health and Deputy Head of the School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne.

Ian has worked in Aboriginal (Koori) Health for twenty-two years. During this time he has been involved in a number of job contexts: as an Aboriginal health worker, health educator and general practitioner. He worked as the Chief Executive Officer of the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service, then the Medical Adviser to the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health in the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care. Ian has had involvement in Aboriginal health policy development for a number of years.

Ian was born in Devonport Tasmania and his family are Palawa with connections to Trawlwoolway and Plairmairrener clans. He has grown up in the Koori community where he has many family connections through the history of the Bass Strait Islands . He has a professional background in medicine and social sciences. He has written widely on issues related to Aboriginal health, identity and culture, and also has a broad interest in the sociology of health and illness, related policy analysis, and theory development in the social sciences.

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