Louise Riley

Assistant Secretary at Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing

Louise Riley is the Assistant Secretary of the MBS Policy and Review Branch of the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. Louise has over 25 years’ experience working for the Australian Government on a wide range of complex health policy issues and programs, including MBS policy and reform, population health, aged care, mental health, primary care and health financing, and on a number of cross portfolio issues including the NDIS. Currently, she is leading teams responsible for MBS policy on telehealth, general practice, primary care and some specialist services, and she is also responsible for the Continuous Review of the MBS and supporting the work of the MBS Review Advisory Committee. Louise has a Master of Public Health from the University of Queensland and a Batchelor of Arts (Hons) from the Australian National University.