Simone Schulz

• Managed large-scale system reforms of a state-wide domestic and family violence service system and separately of a child protection system
• Has led reviews of multiple national and state-wide services that support children, young people and/or families with a range of needs, including mental health, suicide aftercare, palliative care, cancer care, alcohol-and-other-drug use, domestic and family violence and sexual assault services
• Designed and led an evaluation of a large-scale leadership development program for the Australian arm of a global defence organisation
• Worked with a national information agency to undertake an extensive organisational review to support sustainability and improved performance.

Prior to joining Nous, Simone worked at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra and Manila. Before that, she held health-related roles in Canada and Kenya in the areas of women’s health and infectious diseases. She has also undertaken research on health issues faced by Aboriginal populations in Australia and Canada.

Simone has a Master of International Public Health from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Biomedical Science from the University of Queensland. She has also studied at Queen’s University in Canada and Columbia University in New York.

Simone enjoys visiting family in Queensland and Canada and enjoying Sydney’s coastline with runs, ocean swims, snorkelling, paddle boarding and (attempting to) surf.