BRETT SUTTON’S TIME AS VICTORIA’S TOP PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIAL
* 2011 – joins Victorian Division of Well being
* 2019 – appointed the state’s chief well being officer
* February 2020 – turned one of many first authorities officers on the earth to acknowledge the well being disaster after tweeting {that a} pandemic was “very doubtless, if not inevitable”
* March 2020 – Premier Daniel Andrews declares first lockdown underneath recommendation from Professor Sutton and different well being consultants
* July 2020 – 9 public housing towers in inside Melbourne locked down for as much as 14 days to cease an outbreak underneath his crew’s recommendation.
The state authorities was later discovered to have breached the residents’ human rights by not offering discover
* August 2020 – denies studies he deliberate to stop his publish amid inside clashes with fellow well being consultants over public well being orders
* September 2020 – apologised to Victoria’s Afghan group, saying he inadvertently referred to as out Afghanistan whereas discussing COVID-19 instances in southeast Melbourne
* October 2020 – crucial of the state’s bungled resort quarantine program whereas giving proof throughout an inquiry
* October 2020 – acknowledged failures inside Victoria’s contact tracing system throughout an look earlier than a state parliamentary inquiry
* October 2021 – Melbourne’s fifth and remaining lockdown ends on his recommendation after 262 days of stay-at-home orders
* November 2021 – tells an inquest into the deaths of fifty aged residents at St Basil’s aged care residence throughout Victoria’s second wave that his determination to face down your complete workforce contributed to the fatalities
* December 2021 – his powers to make pandemic orders transferred to the well being minister underneath controversial laws
* July 2022 – denies he has been informed by Victorian authorities to not converse with media amid waning public appearances and growing COVID-19 instances throughout winter
* October 2022 – pandemic declaration ends together with all pandemic orders
* June 2023 – Prof Sutton resigns as chief well being officer to take up a brand new function as director of well being and biosecurity at CSIRO
TRIBUTES FROM HEALTH AND POLITICAL LEADERS
“As CHO, Brett helped preserve us knowledgeable, and above all, secure … thanks in your service, and all the perfect in your subsequent function” – Premier Daniel Andrews
“He is develop into a family title in relation to his trusted well being recommendation for Victorians and extra broadly as we underwent a one-in-100-year pandemic” – Emergency Companies Minister Jaclyn Symes
“Professor Sutton has helped to develop a robust and responsive public well being crew, offering crucial well being info and recommendation on all kinds of points and emergencies through the years” – Division of Well being secretary Euan Wallace
“Prof Sutton’s public well being choices by the pandemic years, whereas not all the time in style, had been all the time designed to guard the lives of all Victorians” – Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation state secretary Lisa Fitzpatrick
