Dr Rachel David

Dr Rachel David is a highly experienced CEO with outstanding skills across a broad range of disciplines. Her expertise and commitment to improving the quality, affordability, and access to health care in the Australian system is unsurpassed. Initially trained as a medical doctor Rachel gained first-hand insights into the challenges of healthcare and in the past two decades has devoted much of her career to advocating for reform to improve healthcare financing, entrench evidence-based medicine and protect Australian consumers by ensuring they pay a fair price for quality care. Rachel is not afraid to call out inappropriate healthcare practices, system rorting and inappropriate conduct by powerful vested interests like the big multinational medical device companies, always with the objective of bringing about better outcomes for patients and their families. An expert in government relations and the workings of the Australian Parliament and financial systems, Rachel is well respected across political boundaries. She is an experienced Company Director, and currently sits on the Board of the CRC for Mental Health. Skilled in financial services, she is an advocate for women in financial services, and an expert in healthcare financing, billing and payments. One of her key goals is to keep private health insurance premiums affordable for Australian families, and by doing so reduce pressure on our public hospital system so all Australians can have access to quality care. Rachel is a strong advocate for quality mental health care, preventive health and wellbeing, as well as general health system reform. She has achieved outstanding results on behalf of Australian consumers.