‘We desperately need more doctors making health policy’: Brendan Murphy announces retirement

The Secretary of the Department of Health and Aged Care has said he would advise his successor to ‘be bold’.
Sarah Simpkins
Professor Brendan Murphy. Photo: AAP.

Professor Brendan Murphy was already planning retirement when he signed up as Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer in 2016, with a view it would be his last full-time job.

He then watched the COVID-19 pandemic tear up his plans.