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Board nominations 2026

BMNANZ is led by a volunteer board. If you would like to help shape breastfeeding medicine in Australia and New Zealand, we would love to hear from you.

Board nominations

Nomination formDirectors' Code of Conduct

Commitment

What being a director involves

  • Board meetings every 1 to 2 months, on Zoom
  • AGM held online
  • No in-person attendance expected outside BMNANZ conferences
  • Contribute between meetings by email and messaging, and through committees or projects
  • Voluntary
What you will need. You will need a Professional Member to nominate you, your CV (with your referees' names, roles and contact details), and a conflict of interest declaration (including the WHO International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes).

Key dates

  1. 29 November 2026Annual General Meeting (online): vote on Board nominations.
  2. 1 December 2026New three-year Board Director term begins

Roles

Board roles

  • Chair

    Strategic leadership, chairs meetings, represents BMNANZ nationally and internationally.

  • Vice-Chair

    Partners with the Chair, chairs in their absence, strengthens board effectiveness.

  • Secretary

    Agendas, minutes, records, governance compliance and member enquiries.

  • Treasurer

    Budgets, financial reporting, compliance and sustainability.

  • Directors

    Project and committee work, broader member representation, strategic input.

Process

How nominations work

  1. Open call to Professional Members and doctors involved in breastfeeding medicine
  2. Applications submitted through the website
  3. Applications reviewed and references checked
  4. Interviews if required
  5. Board approves the list of nominations
  6. Final list sent to Full Members at least one week before the AGM
  7. Voting at the AGM

Nominate

Board Director nomination

Complete every section. You can save time by having your CV and your nominator's name ready.

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Your details

For example: Fitzroy VIC, or Hamilton, New Zealand

Are you a BMNANZ member?

Experience

Please do not include any patient details.

About 400 words at most.

Nomination and documents

Upload your CV (PDF, up to 10 MB) (required)

For referees, include their names, roles and contact details (phone or email), and let them know you have listed them. Save your CV as a PDF (most word processors can do this from File, Save as or Export). CVs are deleted 30 days after the AGM.

Draft wording, not final. Version 2026-10-draft1, for review by BMNANZ's lawyer.

Conflict of interest declaration

Please read BMNANZ's Conflict of Interest Declaration, then declare any conflicts below, including under the WHO International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes.

Read the Conflict of Interest Declaration

This section will hold the BMNANZ Conflict of Interest Declaration.

Conflict of interest declaration

Draft wording, not final. Version 2026-10-draft1, for review by BMNANZ's lawyer.

Draft wording, not final. Version 2026-10-draft1, for review by BMNANZ's lawyer.

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