Anne Bunde-Birouste is the UNSW-SPHCM Convener of the Health Promotion and Founding Director of Football United.

Anne has over 25 years of international practice, policy and advocacy work with focus on health and development, practice-based research, she has focused on health and peace-building, community participation in health, participatory applied research in innovative health promotion approaches for working with disadvantaged groups.

Prior to joining the SPHCM she was the Scientific Director of the International Union for Health Promotion, where she gained international recognition in her work as initiator and first director of the Global Program on Health Promotion Effectiveness, a collaborative initiative of IUHPE, WHO, CDC and other partners. Anne remains active with the IUHPE as a member of its International Board of Trustees. She is also a member of  the scientific advisory board of the French National Public Health Research Institute, and member of Noffs’ Foundation STREETUNIVERSITY Steering Group. She has worked in all continents with extensive living experience in France, Africa, and countries in both Oceania and South-east Asia. 

Anne has a keen interest in conflict prevention and peace building, as well as leadership, and capacity building in social change and health promotion. Earlier this decade she was program coordinator of the Aus-Can Health and Conflict project , directed from UNSW. She managed the research and development of the Health and Peace building Filter and Learning Package for AusAID (published 2006), and is currently applying her skills to meet these passions in Football United, which she founded as a result of her phd study, and has fostered ever since.

Anne is active in the field internationally, in particular as the Australian Head of Delegation to Oceania Football Confederation’s Pacific Youth and Sports Project, and leading the collaboration for Football United with the Streetfootballworld network.

She is passionate about life in general and her work in particular, loves music, dancing, and the sea. Anne has a lively family including 4 children and a varying number of animals.