Rosemary is currently Manager, Prevention & Perinatal Health at the Department of Human Services Victoria. This position includes responsibility for the management of the genetics program, cancer screening, immunisation programs, infertility programs, public health training and perinatal data collection. She is a medical graduate of the University of Melbourne (1980), and after some years in general practice, was the Medical Officer of Health for the City of Melbourne from 1986 to 1989. She entered the Department in 1989, and completed the Public Health Training Scheme. She was awarded a Master of Public Health from Monash University in 1992. In the same year, she was awarded a Victorian Health Promotion Foundation Overseas Fellowship, which led to the award of a Master of Science (Epidemiology) degree in 1993 from the University of California Los Angeles. She was made a Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine in 1994.