Alison Hutton

Professor Alison (Ally) Hutton holds a conjoint position between the University of Western Sydney and the South Western Sydney Local Health District in Australia. Ally’s work focuses on emergency health care, primarily in the areas of high-visibility, high-consequence events that are either planned (such as mass gatherings/major events) or unplanned (such as disasters). She is particularly interested in health promotion at mass gathering events and how to support young people to be safe and healthy whilst they are out enjoying themselves.

For many years, Ally has worked for the International Council of Nurses (ICN) in emergency preparedness and disaster competencies. She led an international review in 2015 and was part of the group of expert nurses who developed the second iteration of the ICN Disaster Competencies in 2019. She finalized the Tier 3 Disaster competencies for nurses deployed in 2023. As well as being a WADEM board member, Ally is a board member for the International Board of Disaster Medicine, the Centre of Festival and Events, and the Torrens Resilience Institute, Flinders University.