Elizabeth Curran

Elizabeth Curran

Director

(appointed August 2022)

Liz is experienced in hospital and health system strategy, clinical and non-clinical operational management, performance improvement and transformation. She is passionate about creating a connected ‘person centred’ healthcare system to improve the quality, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of these critical services into the future. She is particularly passionate about children's health service improvement following her experience having two premature babies that are now healthy, active and thriving kids thanks to the amazing staff at the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network.
 
Since June 2024 Liz has held the role of Managing Director, Health Services at Bupa. Health Services provides a range of primary care, mental health, optical, hearing, and dental services, immigration health examinations for Australian visa applicants on behalf of the Department of Home Affairs, as well as healthcare to the Australian Defence Force and veterans right across Australia. 
 
Before joining Bupa, Liz was Executive General Manager, Health and Education at Downer Group, managing a portfolio of services to major hospitals, tertiary institutions and schools across Australia and New Zealand. She has also held Executive Director Operations roles in South Eastern Sydney Local Health District and Northern Sydney Local Health District within NSW Health, which included responsibility for all acute hospitals in those areas, mental health and population and community health. She previously worked as a Healthcare strategy and operations consultant in Deloitte, Booz & Company (Strategy &) and AT Kearney, and has also held roles with the United Nations World Food Programme in Africa and Bill Clinton’s Foundation for HIV in Latin America.