A/Prof Simon Stafrace
Program Director
A/Prof Simon Stafrace is the Program Director of Mental & Addiction Health at Alfred Health. In this role, he is clinically responsible for services provided by Alfred Health, exclusively or in partnership with non-government and community health organisations, across parts of the southern metropolitan region.
Simon holds an honorary appointment as Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University. He is also Chair of the Community Collaboration Committee of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) which brings the voice of lived and living experience to the policy, education and advocacy work of the College.
Simon is a Fellow of the RANZCP, and an accredited member of its Faculties of Adult & Old Age Psychiatry. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Clinical Governance. He has postgraduate academic qualifications in psychological medicine, clinical hypnosis and health administration. He has held leadership positions in professional & community organisations, including as a board member.
Simon recently completed a secondment to the Victorian Department of Health as Chief Adviser from 2020-22. In that role, he contributed to the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System, and was a member of the senior executive team tasked with early implementation of its recommendations, and the establishment of Mental Health Reform Victoria and the Division of Mental Health & Wellbeing.