Jeff Dunn

Qualifications: PhD

Job title: Chief Executive Officer

Background: Professor Jeff Dunn is the Chief Executive Officer of Cancer Council Queensland, a long standing and high profile community based organisation. He holds Professorial appointments with Griffith University's School of Public Health, the University of Queensland's Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and James Cook University's School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences. Jeff maintains a particular interest in supportive care for cancer patients and is actively involved in research in this field. Jeff has published widely and is frequently invited as a speaker to national and international events and meetings.

Jeff is a Board member of Cancer Council Australia and continues to serve on numerous advisory and planning committees to the International Union Against Cancer (UICC). He currently serves, among other things, as the Chair of the Reach to Recovery International Breast Cancer Support Service, Chair of the UICC International Capacity Building Fund and is the Chair of the UICC's Asia Pacific Cancer Society Training Grants Programme. Jeff is also an invited Director on the Board of the International Psycho Oncology Society and is a member of the Lance Armstrong Foundation's Global Campaign Advisory Committee.

Current research projects:

• Peer support and prostate cancer: A three-phase study
• Investigating the unmet supportive care needs of people with brain tumours and their families in Queensland
• Community attitudes to passive smoking in private places
• Documenting the experiences of women in the Amazon Heart Changing Gears motorcycle ride
• The translation of clinical practice guidelines for the psychosocial care of adults