Emmanuel Gnanamanickam – Secretary
Emmanuel is a health services researcher with expertise in epidemiology, health economics, biostatistics, administrative and electronic health record data and data science. He is a senior research fellow and consultant research epidemiologist at the Adelaide Centre for Clinical Epidemiology (Adelaide EpiCentre) in the University of Adelaide based at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN). He brings to HSRAANZ a unique representation of research in academia and within a health service having worked simultaneously in both since 2017. He has worked across a wide range of clinical as well as wider health research sectors encompassing maternal and child health, oral health, health promotion, dementia and aged care, cardiology, child protection, incarceration, infectious diseases and Aboriginal health.
Emmanuel has served on the executive committee of HSRAANZ since 2018, initially as an ordinary members before being elected as the Secretary in 2022. He has been involved in many aspects of the running of the organisation, including but not limited to the association’s strategic planning, and the last revamp of the association’s website and branding. In 2021, Emmanuel represented the association at the MRFF EMCR round table which collectively informed the establishment of the MRFF EMCRs Grant Opportunity. Emmanuel subsequently lead and prepared the association’s guiding document on engagement and representation of EMCRs. Emmanuel currently co-ordinates the association's much sought after mentoring program, and the annual awards and is working on the association's Diversity and Inclusion data collection. He is also part of the marketing and communications and membership working groups.
His personality and professionalism are strongly rooted in equality, respect, social justice, innovation and enterprise. He brings to the table skills and expertise in finance and management, multi-cultural and inter-professional engagement and liaison and advocacy, having previously served as co-chair, treasurer and marketing and communications representative in other voluntary organizations.
