Board Member

A visionary and transformative leader, Mardi has lived and worked in Australia, the US & Kenya as a non-executive director, health executive, paediatric emergency & retrieval doctor and educator. She is passionate about strategic development of accessible, cost-effective, high quality primary, prehospital, emergency & hospital care and workforce, especially for remote & underserved populations.

Strengthening fragile systems is one of her core drivers. After working as a specialist doctor in Australia for 5 years, she moved with my family to Kenya from 2011-2019 as a humanitarian worker at Kijabe Hospital, a tertiary mission hospital, with a focus on multidisciplinary capacity building. There she served in several roles, including two terms as Kijabe Hospital’s Director of Clinical Services, and co-developer of sub-Saharan Africa’s first postgraduate Fellowship program in Paediatric Emergency & Critical Care with the University of Nairobi and University of Washington.

Since obtaining an MBA from Melbourne Business School in 2018, her focus has been improving the health of rural & remote Australians through her executive role at the Royal Flying Doctor Service Australia. There she leads evidence-based, collaborative & innovative solutions to both emergency and comprehensive primary health care for remote communities across South Australia and the Northern Territory, with a focus on utilising emerging technologies in pioneering service delivery models.

She is committed to disseminating best practice via academic research, publication and collaboration, and has faculty appointments at both University of Florida and Charles Darwin University, where she assisted in the development and launch of the postgraduate Aeromedical Retrieval Graduate Diploma and Masters programs in 2021. She maintains her clinical connection as a PEM specialist at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide and through regular teaching at PECC program intensives in Kenya.

In her free time she can be found creating imaginary worlds in the writer’s room and on set as a television drama medical advisor, as well as thinking out loud through articles on LinkedIn & and advocating for equitable healthcare on X at @rfdsSANT_EGMMRS & @PECCAfrica.