As a former Cabinet Minister in the Australian Government, Professor Hunt served as Australia’s Minister for the Environment, Innovation and Health over almost nine years.
As Minister for Health from 2017 to 2022, he oversaw Australia’s response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, established telehealth as a permanent and universal centrepiece of Medicare, reformed private health and established long-term plans for mental health, aged care, medical research and primary care and listed over 2,000 new and amended medicines for public access. He oversaw an annual budget of $132 billion, 17 portfolio agencies and 7,000 staff.
Following his retirement from Parliament, Greg has been appointed Honorary Enterprise Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Services and the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. Greg has also been appointed as an Honorary Professor at the University College, London.
Greg is also the inaugural Chair of the Advisory Council for the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University and Chair of the Novartis Foundation’s CARDIO4Cities Accelerator Advisory Steering Committee.
He advises businesses and not for profits in the areas of innovation, leadership, strategic planning, health and the environment.