During his opening speech at our 30-year celebration event, Executive Clinical Director Prof Dan Lubman AM spoke about our founding director Prof Margaret Hamilton AO’s vision for the organisation:

“She envisioned a centre of excellence, bringing together clinical services, research, and education to transform both lives and systems. That vision has been carried forward by successive leaders, by our extraordinary staff, by our students, by the government and our community partners, and by the many people with lived experience who have shared their courage.

“Their collective contribution is what we celebrate today,” he said.

Founding director Prof Margaret Hamilton AO with Executive Clinical Director Prof Dan Lubman AM

We are grateful to the many people who helped us celebrate such an important milestone, especially the Victorian Minister for Mental Health Ingrid Stitt for attending the event and for her leadership and support. Thanks also to the team at the Victorian Department of Health.

“We are proud to be part of Eastern Health and supported by Monash University,” said Clinical Director, Statewide Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, A/Prof Shalini Arunogiri during the event.

“When you reflect on our stories from the past 30 years, and you think about our impact and those incremental changes that we and our partners have made across the sector, you start to see that change really is possible," she said.

Click here to explore the depth and breadth of our impact over the past three decades, as we continue to work hard to challenge stigma, influence systems, and transform addiction care:

1. Providing timely access
2. Delivering comprehensive care
3. Driving clinical innovation
4. Building awareness and promoting help-seeking
5. Developing tomorrow's workforce
6. Influencing policy and system change
7. Elevated lived experience
8. Reframing addiction
9. Integrating addiction and mental health care
10. Guiding best practice

Thank you to Monash Art, Design and Architecture (MADA), led by A/Prof Leah Heiss, for their valuable input in creating this report:

Explore our impact over the past 30 years.

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