Board of Directors

Director for QLD

Chair

Paul Martin is the General Manager of the Queensland Association for Healthy Communities.  He has worked and volunteered for LGBT/HIV communities since 1990 in Queensland and nationally at the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations, as well as various positions in the UK, including Manager of the Health Promotion Unit for Brighton & Hove.

Director for TAS

Vice-Chair

Peter is a founding member of A Gender Agenda – a trans and intersex organisation providing information, support and advocacy services to the sex and gender diverse communities of the ACT. Peter has been actively involved in the LGBTI community in Canberra since the early 1990s, and has been involved on a voluntary basis with a variety of LGBTI organisations.   He is strongly committed to raising the profile of intersex and trans issues both within, and beyond, the LGBTI community.

Dani has been the WA AIDS Council’s Freedom Centre (FC) Coordinator since 2007 and was a volunteer prior to employment at FC. As Freedom Centre Coordinator Dani has been the only full time staff member providing FC Services and has worked particularly on developing the FC website and forums, and the FC Volunteer training, policies & procedures. Dani also worked on the evaluation & best practice guidelines for FC services as FC Coordinator and Peer Researcher at Curtin University’s WA Centre for Health Promotion Research for the My Peer Project.

Dani has volunteered  for Gay & Lesbian Community Services of WA for a number of years, as Board Secretary, group facilitator, trainer, and on fund raising events.   Dani’s primary areas of interest include young people, mental health and gender diversity.
Dani has a Bachelor of Social Science with Honours at Edith Cowan University and has previous experience in sexual health & relationship education, and working with people with disabilities.

Dani is the Chair of the Alliance’s Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Working Group

Victoria’s Anti-Violence Project executive director, Greg supports his largely voluntary position through consultancy work in capacity building and social inclusion development in marginalised communities and through counselling victims of crime.  Greg leads the AVP’s role in a City of Melbourne project addressing males who cause intentional harm impacting people within the City of Melbourne municipality.
In 2009 he worked internationally in Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and China as well as within Australia with a range of state and national organisations.   A former ironman triathlete and suburban mayor, Greg is a director of Family Planning Victoria, where he chairs FPV’s audit, finance and quality committee, and was previously as a director of the national peak for Family Planning and Sexual Health organisations, Sexual Health and Family Planning Australia.  He is a board member and public officer of JOY 94.9 and co-hosts and co-produces “Detours”, one of the station’s longest running radio programs which focuses on travel and tourism.
Previous roles in the health sector have included positions in disability (Regional Manager for twin Southern and Eastern Regions with DASSI Inc.); community health (Team Manager at Inner South Community Health Service where he developed the “Hustling to Health” program and clinic for sex workers and injecting drug users; as a Sexual Assault Counsellor Advocate at South East Centre Against Sexual Assault (SECASA) at Southern Health Network; Health Educator driving the then Beats Education project at VAC/GMHC; as Ministerial Advisor in Specialist Child and Family Services and Local Government in a previous Victorian state government as well as and other roles in federal and local government.

Adrian has spent nearly twenty years in voluntary leadership positions in HIV/AIDS, including at the Queensland AIDS Council, AFAO, ACON, and the AIDS Trust of Australia.
Adrian has a long history of working collaboratively with community organisations and politicians of all stripes to drive change, including in LGB law reform, health policy, and more broadly. While chair of ACON Adrian played a role in leading ACON’s successful reorientation from an AIDS Council to a gay and lesbian health organisation. He is currently the co-chair of the Pride in Diversity Steering Group, a project of ACON and the Diversity Council of Australia, which aims to make corporate Australia a more healthy and affirming place to work for LGB Australians. He is also chair of Erskinevilla, a local residential youth accommodation service for young people at risk of homelessness.
He has 3 children, aged 11, 6, and 1.
Adrian understand the challenges faced by the National LGBTI Health Alliance in seeking recognition of our communities’ health issues beyond HIV/AIDS, and funding support for these.