Rob Moodie (doctor)

Rob Moodie (born 1953, c. Melbourne) is currently the Professor of Global Health at the Nossal Institute of Global Health at the University of Melbourne and was named Victorian Father of the Year in 2005. He is married and has two children.

He graduated in medicine at the University of Melbourne in 1976, and has also studied Tropical Medicine at Paris University and Public Health at Harvard University. He has worked for the Save the Children Fund, Medicins Sans Frontieres, the Burnet Institute, the World Health Organisation and UNAIDS. He was CEO of the the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) from 1998 to 2007.

He is chair of the Melbourne Storm rugby league club, and writes a regular column in Cosmos magazine on medical oddities.