People

Mary has more than 20 years of experience in senior positions across the government, corporate, academic, and non-government sectors. Her expertise lies in policy, governance, strategy, implementation, research and evaluation in health and social policy. Mary has a depth of understanding of public policy and its wider context and extensive experience dealing with complex issues across the government, university and NGO sectors. Mary has held health senior executive service and board positions in the NSW Government and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney and was a Fulbright Scholar. In 2015, Mary founded MH Consulting Group (MHC), previously known as Mary Haines Consulting, where she remains Managing Director and is involved in all projects.

Connect with Mary Haines

• Email Mary Haines
• p  0421611431

"I take great delight in supporting our clients' success. I love to analyse their challenges and design purposeful solutions."

Ryan has worked with MHC since 2021 and has a wide-ranging role that ensures projects are delivered on time, on budget, and to a high standard. He is experienced in contract and project management, having successfully managed contracts and projects across the government, university and NGO sectors. In addition, he has experience in the development of monitoring and evaluation frameworks and plans, research grant schemes, research strategies, research priority setting, research partnership frameworks, and research methods. Ryan is also a qualified health clinician (Podiatrist).

"I value to contributing to impactful projects where I can produce high quality deliverables for our clients that are for the good of the public”

Cyra is an experienced public health professional with extensive experience working at the intersection of health research, public health and health policy. Her technical expertise spans program evaluation, health systems and implementation research. Over her career, Cyra has worked both in Australia and overseas with diverse stakeholders including governments, clinicians and academics. She has worked on projects evaluating complex health system interventions, and has 10 years of experience supporting immunisation policy development in Australia. Her passion is working on projects to develop strategies, interventions and policies that are evidence-based and context-specific. Her recent PhD work focused on improving the use of data for decision-making to strengthen immunisation systems in the Pacific Islands.

“The most exciting part of my job is working with clients to untangle complex problems and collaboratively find practical, effective solutions that deliver high public impact.”

Bea is an experienced program manager, and implementation and health services researcher. Bea has conducted a range of research, implementation and evaluation projects with MHC. She has worked on a range of collaborative projects involving clinicians, researchers, state-wide agencies, NSW Government health organisations, and consumer organisations. Bea has expertise in implementation, evaluation, research, and in the development of implementation and knowledge translation strategies, and prioritisation and evaluation frameworks.

“Consulting allows me to provide direct support to government clients, bridging the gap between research, evaluation, and implementation.”