Bonnie Matheson is an experienced public health and social policy leader who has worked across local, state and federal governments, and the not-for-profit sector. Bonnie has focused her career on enabling Aboriginal self-determination, tackling systemic and structural racism and reshaping systems to protect and promote health for all.

At VicHealth, Bonnie leads a team to address the systems, practices and pathways through which commercial and economic actors influence health, wellbeing and health equity. Prior to joining VicHealth, Bonnie has worked with Ministers, government departments, non-government organisations and communities to deliver social policy and self-determination reform, truth-telling, municipal public health and wellbeing planning and health promotion initiatives.

Bonnie holds a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Public Health) and Bachelor of International Development.