Victoria’s Chief Health Officer (CHO), Brett Sutton, has resigned from his post after four years leading the state’s COVID-19 pandemic response.
Sutton will take up the role of director of Health and Biosecurity at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
Labor Premier Daniel Andrews thanked Sutton for his service with the state’s Health Department over the past 12 years.
Sutton was appointed CHO in 2019, where he became the face of the state’s pandemic response.
“For more than a decade, Professor Sutton has served our state and guided us through some of the most difficult times,” Andrews wrote on Twitter….