Jane Halton

Jane Halton
AO PSM
Jane Halton addresses World Health Organization as president of the 60th World Health Assembly in 2007
Secretary of the Department of Finance
In office
27 June 2014 – 15 October 2016
Secretary of the Department of Health
In office
18 September 2013 – 27 June 2014
Secretary of the Department of Health and Ageing
In office
January 2002 – 18 September 2013
Personal details
Born
Sarah Jane Halton

(1960-01-04) 4 January 1960 (age 64)
Wickwar, Gloucestershire, England
NationalityAustralian
SpouseTrevor Sutton[1]
Children2 sons
Alma materAustralian National University
OccupationPublic servant

Sarah Jane "Jane" Halton AO PSM (born 4 January 1960) is a former senior Australian public servant, current global health leader and former casino board member. She was the head of the Department of Health between January 2002 and June 2014, and the head of the Department of Finance from 2014 to 2016. She has held senior board roles with ANZ Bank, Clayton Utz, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and Crown Casino. She was the Independent Chair of COTA Australia (Council on the Ageing) beginning December 2017. In 2020, she was appointed to the Morrison government's National COVID Commission.[2]

Halton has held concurrent roles within the gambling and casino industry at the same time she has held senior roles within global health organizations - including the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).[3] She held these conflicting roles despite IHME estimates that "gambling-related burden of harm was 2.5 times more than diabetes and 3.0 times more than drug use disorder".[4] Halton has not explained the rationale for holding these competing concurrent roles despite the remuneration from Crown averaging just under AUD 300,000 per year.[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Raggatt was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "NATIONAL COVID-19 COORDINATION COMMISSION | Prime Minister of Australia". www.pm.gov.au. Archived from the original on 10 April 2020. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  3. ^ "Jane Halton". Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. 26 February 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  4. ^ "The epidemiology and impact of gambling disorder and other gambling-related harm". www.who.int. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  5. ^ https://www.crownresorts.com.au/getsydmedia/fc03c891-1c33-4566-8ffb-24f1292d3ae4/90daba8e-1d19-477e-b3b3-1a79df35d1c7.pdf?ext=.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)