AAG Welcomes New Board Members
Kim Clayworth (NT)
Kim Clayworth is a physiotherapist with postgraduate qualifications in public health, management, and leadership. She currently serves as a Senior Operational Manager, overseeing community allied health and aged care services across the Top End of the Northern Territory.
With over 20 years of experience in clinical and leadership roles within NT Health, Kim has been instrumental in tackling regional healthcare challenges. She has worked closely with co-leads to implement Aged Care Royal Commission recommendations and prepare NT Health services for the new Aged Care Act 2024.
In 2023, Kim transitioned into a strategic project role focused on addressing the growing number of long-stay older patients in the NT’s only tertiary hospital and continues to lead key initiatives arising from this work.
Passionate about frailty and dementia care, Kim is completing a final research project toward a Master of Dementia from the University of Tasmania.
Mark Cooper-Stanbury (ACT)
Mark has spent the past 43 years engaging with the health and welfare sectors in various roles: as practitioner, manager, advocate, researcher and public servant. For most of his career, Mark worked as a senior manager at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
He has a bachelor’s degree in science, and recently submitted his PhD thesis (University of Melbourne) titled ‘Optimal policy for equitable access to residential aged care in Australia’.
Mark has been a member of the AAG ACT Division executive committee since 2019
(most of that time as Secretary), and is keen to build on that role with a term on the national Board of Directors.
His main expertise is in developing and managing statistical collections, with associated data governance and ‘statistical storytelling’—recently, that has been focused on aged care policy (related to his PhD research).
We also offer our sincere appreciation to outgoing Board members:
Mr Ben Poona (NT) and Prof Diane Gibson (ACT)
