Associate Professor Nossar is the Associate Dean of the new School of Medicine, being established in Sydney by The University of Notre Dame Australia. As a Community Paediatrician, he has more than 20 years experience in implementing community-based services to enhance the health and development of children and young people, in Australia and in overseas
From 2003 until he joined the University of Notre Dame Australia, he worked as a Senior Consultant in Community Paediatrics with Child and Youth Health in South Australia. In that role he headed the Every Chance for Every Child early childhood services initiative, which has been responsible for the implementation of Australia’s largest sustained nurse home visiting service. During that time, Dr Nossar was also Associate Professor in the School of Medicine at Flinders University and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Adelaide.
Before moving to South Australia Dr Nossar was the Service Director of Community Paediatrics for the South Western Sydney Area Health Service, where worked on services to enhance the health and development of children. During that time, Dr Nossar also worked with The Cabinet Office of NSW and the NSW Commission for Children and Young People to develop and implement the Families First Initiative across NSW.
Dr Nossar has reviewed the child health services of several of the states and territories in Australia.
Dr Nossar has also worked overseas as the Australian Resident Adviser for the AusAID Health Services Development Project in Mauritius, building PHC services and systems for that country. He has also been a Technical Consultant in Child Health to the Guangdong Provincial Hospital for Maternal and Child Health, which is the principal hospital in one of the most populous provinces in China. Dr Nossar has undertaken consultancies for AusAID, UNFPA, WHO and The World Bank in the Pacific, in China, in Africa and several Indian Ocean countries.
Associate Professor Nossar has been the Vice President of The Spastic Centre of NSW, on the board of The Centre for Developmental Disability Studies in NSW and Vice President of Karitane Mothercraft Society in NSW. In 2005 he became a member of the national board steering committee for the Association for the Welfare of Child Health (AWCH).
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