• Chair
• Commitee
• International Scientific Committee

Chair 

Christopher Hall - Director
Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement

Christopher Hall, the Director of the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement, is a psychologist who has developed a specialisation in the field of grief and bereavement over the past 20 years.

Chris has trained many health and education professionals in grief theory and interventions both in Australia and overseas. He has a strong interest in child and adolescent grief, traumatic and complex bereavement experiences and the organisational impact of grief and loss.

Chris is a certified thanatologist (Death, Dying and Bereavement) with the U.S. Association for Death Education and Counseling. In 1999 he was elected to the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement (IWG) and currently is a board member of the organisation.

Chris is also an Honorary Fellow of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and Editor of the journal Grief Matters: The Australian Journal of Grief and Bereavement.

Committee

• Julie Frowe - Manager, Business Operations
  Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement
  
  
• Sally Robert - Manager Health Promotion and Education
  Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement
  
  
• Elaine Grant - Manager Communications and Events
  Australian Psychological Society
  
  
• Ellise Chapman - Marketing and Public Relations Coordinator
  Australian Psychological Society

International Scientific Committee

• Dr. June Allan (Australia)
  Senior Lecturer
  School of Global Studies, Social Science & Planning
  RMIT University
  Melbourne VIC
  
  
• Prof. David Balk (USA)
  Professor Health and Nutrition Sciences
  Brooklyn College
  New York
  
  
• Michael Bull (Australia)
  Senior Lecturer
  School of Social Administration and Social Work
  Flinders University
  Adelaide SA
  
  
• Prof. Cecilia Chan Lai Wan (Hong Kong)
  Si Yuan Professor in Health and Social Work
  Director - Centre on Behavioral Health
  The University of Hong Kong
  Hong Kong
  
  
• Dr. Stephen Fleming (Canada)
  Department of Psychology
  Faculty of Health
  York University
  Toronto
  
  
• Anne Giljohann (Australia)
  Manager - Bereavement Counselling & Support Service
  Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement
  Melbourne VIC
  
  
• Dr. Geoffrey Glassock (Australia)
  Life Change Management
  Five Dock NSW
  
  
• Christopher Hall (Australia)
  Director - Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement
  Melbourne VIC
  
  
• Dr. Louise Harms (Australia)
  Senior Lecturer
  School of Social Work
  The University of Melbourne VIC
  
  
• Dr. Herman H. van der Kloot Meijburg (New Zealand)
  Director
  The Centre for Loss and Healing & Labyrinth Celesta
  Christchurch
  
  
• Dr. Marilyn Relf (UK)
  Head of Education
  Sir Michael Sobell House
  Churchill Hospital
  Oxford
  
  
• Dr. Ruthmarijke Smeding (Belgium)
  Leiterin des Brüsseler Instituts für Lehren und Lernen im Gesundheit-, Palliativ- und Trauerbereich
  
  
• Jane Sullivan (Australia)
  Senior Clinician/Team Leader
  Department of Social Work
  Royal Children's Hospital
  Melbourne VIC