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Dr Hsu-Hage was born in 1955 and
migrated to Australia from Taiwan in 1981. She
holds degrees in Bachelor of Science (Taiwan),
Master of Science in Public Health (Columbia),
and Doctor of Philosophy in Nutritional
epidemology (Monash). She has strong background
in epidemiology and is currently Senior Lecturer
in the Department of Medicine, and Health
Promotion Unit Convenor at Faculty of Medicine,
Monash University.
She has served various Chinese
community organisations and held executive
positions; as Secretary, the Federation of
Chinese Associations; Secretary, the Chinese
Business and Professionals Association;
Vice-President, Chinese Culture Society; and
Founding Chief Executive Officer, the Chinese
Health Foundation of Australia. She is a regular
contributor to the SBS radio "Healthy
Lifestyle" program, bringing current health
updates to Chinese-speaking audience, and a
spokesperson on ethnic food - Chinese for the
Australian Nutrition Foundation. She was a guest
of honour at the 41st Chinese National Day
celebration in Beijing in recognition of her
contribution to Chinese community.
Dr. Hsu-Hage has travelled
extensively and has collaborative research in
food and health in the Asia Pacific Region,
including Hong Kong, China, Thailand, Taiwan,
Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam. She
is the Founding President of the Asia Pacific
Public Health Nutrition Association, and
currently the Executive Director of the Asia
Pacific Health Development Centre, one of the
seven centre under the Monash Asia Institute. She
remains actively involved in various professional
committees and advisory groups. Her research
publications include papers and books in Chinese
food and health. She also co-edited a book,
"Food Habits in Later life", and chairs
the International Union of Nutritional Sciences
(IUNS) Nutrition Informatics Taskforce.
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Marion Lau arrived in Australia
from Malaysia in 1969, and holds qualifications
in nursing from Great Britain as well as
Australia, and a degree in Health Services
Administration from the University of NSW,
Sydney.
She was the first Asian woman to
be appointed as Matron of a 126 bed acute
surgical hospital in Victoria when appointed to
the position of Matron/Manager of the Avenue
Private Hospital in Windsor, which she
commissioned in 1974.
Marion has experience and strong
commitment in the area of health and welfare, and
how these affect migrants from Non-English
speaking backgrounds, particularly women and aged
migrants. As woman Deputy Chairperson of the
Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils
of Australia (FECCA), she is involved in many
issues relating to ethnic women from a diversity
of backgrounds, particularly immigrant and
refugee women. As Vice President of CHF, she is
concerned that adequate and relevant health
information is accessible to the non-English
speaking members of the Chinese community in the
language that they can understand.
Her other community roles
include:· Chairperson Aged Care NESB Steering
Committee Chinese Community
Vice President Chinese
Community Society of Victoria
Committee of Management -
Women in Industry and Community Health
Committee of Management -
Immigrant Women’s Domestic Violence
Service
Executive Ethnic
Communities’ Councils of Victoria
Justice of the Peace
Victoria.
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Dr. Tony Chow was born in Hong
Kong and came to Australia as young child with
his parents. He matriculated from Melbourne High
School and completed his medical training at
Monash University. He is currently a Lecturer at
the Department of Anaesthesia, Monash University,
and an Anaesthetic & Intensive Care Registrar
at Monash Medical Centre.
His publications include:
Dr Tony Chow. Just
Change! The plight of Australians of
non-English-speak background. Medical
Observer, October 1995.
K.-F. Chow. Chinese food
culture, Helicobacter pylori and peptic
ulcer disease in ethnic Chinese and
ethnic Caucasians in Melbourne. B. Med.
Sci. Thesis 1990.
K.-F. Chow, J.R. Lambert,
M.L. Wahlqvist, B. Hsu-Hage. Helicobacter
pylori in Melbourne Chinese immigrants:
evidence for oral-oral transmission via
chopsticks. Journal of Gastroenterology
and Hepatology, vol 10, No 5:562-569,
September 1995.
K.-F. Chow et. al. Health
Information Manual (Chinese) 1994. Being
considered as prototype for Immigrant
Settlement Information by previous
Federal Government.
Book Contribution -
Medical Practice of Preventive Nutrition,
Editor Mark L. Wahlqvist, Jitka S.
Vobecky. Chapter V. Disease-orientated
preventive nutrition: Peptic ulcer
disease, Page 91-117. Smith-Gordon,
London, 1994.
Television - ABC:
Quantum: The Helicobacter pylori Story,
1993.
Radio - SBS: Promotion of
Breast Screening in the Chinese
Community, 1995.
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Stephen is a graduate of the
University of New England and held a Master
Degree in Mathematics and Sciences, St.
John’s College, Dubbo, NSW. He joined the
PMG (later changed to Telecom and now known as
Telstra) as a statistician in 1971 and remained
with the ogranisation for 24 years, and as Chief
Finance Officer in the last five years. He is
very active in community work, especially with
the Chinese community:
Executive Committee
member, Hong Kong Club Inc 1972-87
President, Hong Kong Club
Inc 1970-1980
President, the Federation
of Chinese Associations of Victoria
1985-1986
Member, The City of
Melbourne Bicentennial Community
Committee 1987-1988
Founding member &
Vice-president, the Chinese Chamber of
Commerce 1987-93
Founding member &
Director, The Chinese Health Foundation
of Australia 1993-
Consultant & Company
Director
Stephen is the Winter Camp
co-ordinator who organises a group of Chinese
youth from Melbourne to participate in Winter
Camp activities in China. The purpose of this
camp is to engage and encourage these young
people to learn about the understand the many
facets of Chinese culture and to build good will
between China and Australia. Stephen is a Justice
of the Peace and a member of the Royal Victorian
Association of Honorary Justices.
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Mr Tye has devoted himself to the
Chinese community and has held many influential
positions throughout his career, some of his past
and present achievements have included the
following;
Certified practising
accountant, Chartered secretary
President of Kong Chew
Society, Victoria
Executive and Council
member of the Federation of Chinese
associations of Victoria, Umbrella
Association for 22 ethnic Chinese
Associations in Victoria
Associate of the
Institute of Corporate Managers and
Administrators
Honorary Life Governor of
Royal Melbourne Hospital
Former board member of
the Board of Management, Box Hill
Hospital
Honorary Adviser to the
Museum of Chinese Australian History
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Dr.
Vivian Lin, Chairperson, Program
Planning & Development Committee
Dr. Vivian Lin has worked in
health policy, planning and management in US and
Australia and as consultant to the World Health
Organisation - the World Bank in China. She is
presently Manager of Inter-government Relations
for the Victorian Department of Human Services,
having held senior management positions in a
number of program areas previously. Born in
Taiwan and educated in the US, she earned her
Masters and doctorate in public health from
University of California, Bekerly. She maintains
an active academic interest, lecturing in public
health subjects at Monash and La Trobe
Universitis in recent years. Her community
service involvement includes being the national
policy co-ordinator for the Public Health
Association as well as Chair of the Program
Planning and Development Committee for the
Chinese Health Foundation of Australia. She has
served as ministerial appointee on the Bureau of
Immigration Population Research Advisory
Committee and CHIS Board of Management.
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Professor Lin is a well respected
and recognised authority in Australia, and
overseas in the science of Chinese medicine. He
has been recognised for this knowledge,
expertise, qualifications and skills by learned
bodies from all areas of industries and
governments alike. Professor Lin is regarded as
the leading voice in Chinese Medicine in
Australia and is sort after for comment and
informed advice for both State and Federal
Governments of all persuasions. Professor Lin has
written reports and papers on many occasions, at
the request of Government Ministers, in support
of the benefits that can be obtained from the
recognition of Chinese Medicine for all
Australians.
His recognition as an industry
and community voice can be shown by the list of
positions that the Professor currently holds both
in Australia and overseas; In the field of
Chinese Medicine;
National President of the
Federation of Chinese Medicine and
Acupuncture Societies of Australia Inc.
(FCMA)
Member of the Review
Committee on Chinese Medicine for the
dept of health and CSV
Member of the reference
group on Chinese medicine for the dept of
health and CSV
Chairman, Management
committee in Chinese medicine, RMIT
University, Melb.
Chief editor, Australian
Chinese Medicine Journal
Member of accreditation
Committee in Chinese Medicine, RMIT
University.
Member of accreditation
Committee in Medical Acupuncture, RMIT
University.
Advising on the Chinese
Medicine Industry to the Therapeutic
Goods Administration, Federal Health
Dept, Australia.
Visiting Professor,
Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese
Medicine, China
Visiting Professor,
Weifang Medical College, China
Honorary Director, China
Association of Chinese Medicine and
Pharmacy, China
Honorary President,
Paediatrics Society, China Association of
Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy, China
Other areas
Economics Adviser,
Weifang City, China
Adviser, Indochina Ethnic
Chinese Association of Victoria, Inc
Adviser, the Teo Chew
Chinese Association of Victoria, Inc
Adviser, Hakka
Association of Victoria, Inc
Adviser, Chinese
Cooperation Association of Victoria, Inc
Adviser, Western Region
Women Association, Inc
Adviser, Linyi Lion Dance
Team, Inc
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 Mr. Maurice Leong, Chairperson,
Finance & Appeals Committee
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