Euan Lindsay-Smith – Principal Consultant

Euan Lindsay-Smith has worked in the field of Community Development and Community Health for nearly thirty years.  As a Project Manager, Euan spent ten years in Africa, designing and implementing Community Based Primary Health Care Programmes.  This period was followed by five years in the Pacific Region, managing Maternal and Child Health and Family Health Programmes.

After completing a Master of Public Health at the University of Queensland, Euan decided to diversify into the area of Aged Care and undertook the management of a series of Health and Social Research programmes in the area of Aged Care in Australia.  After a brief spell back in the Pacific, as Resident Adviser to the South Pacific Alliance for Family Health, Euan returned to establish his own consulting business in Brisbane.

Working in the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Indonesia, Taiwan, China and Australia, Euan divides his time between the two fields of International Health and Aged Care.

Euan is currently completing studies for a Doctor of International Health at Curtin University.

Mary Lindsay-Smith – Executive Director

Mary Lindsay-Smith has worked in the area of education and training for over twenty five years and, as IHCS’s Executive Director, is responsible for the day to day administration and management of the business.  As an experienced interviewer and trainer she has undertaken direction of consultation processes for the National Review of Respite Care, the Development of the Resident Classification Scale, the National Evaluation of Psychogeriatric Units and the Evaluation of the Host Family Respite Project.

As well as carrying out interviews and stakeholder consultations, Mary trains and supervises interviewers who survey Carers, Care Recipients and Service Providers for IHCS’s projects.  She has developed a model for classifying and summarising the wide range of inputs which flow from this free ranging type of consultation, enabling a clear and concise report to reflect, accurately and comprehensively, the views of those involved in the consultation process.

Mary fulfilled the role of Principal Consultant and Project Manager for the Evaluation of the Inclusion Support Project which provides services and respite care options for young people with a challenging behaviour.

Mary is currently developing the framework for a series of training modules for staff of residential aged care facilities and is developing capacity building and good governance seminars for a wide range of service providers in health and community services.