About Mya
Growing agency and outcomes for our workforce, our patients and our communities.
Dr Mya Cubitt is a senior emergency physician, academic, and national health system leader, driven by a commitment to equity in access to health and care — at home, in hospital, and across the system. Her leadership is oriented toward growing agency and outcomes for workforce, patients, and communities: connecting the people and systems needed to address problems that are hard to name and harder to solve.
She is National Medical Director, Care Governance and Risk at Silverchain, where she leads clinical governance, safety, and risk oversight across one of Australia's largest home and community care platforms, currently undergoing significant digital and service transformation. She remains clinically active as an Emergency Physician, and holds an academic appointment as Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Critical Care at The University of Melbourne.
Dr Cubitt's clinical and academic work has centred on geriatric trauma — a field defined by the inequity older patients face in acute injury care, and by the layered clinical, cognitive, and social complexity that standard care pathways were not designed to meet. This grounding has shaped her approach to governance: evidence-driven, patient-centred, and built on a clear-eyed understanding of the gap between policy intent and frontline reality.
Dr Cubitt trained in Emergency Medicine in New Zealand and Australia following her medical degree at the University of Otago, graduating as a Fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine with the Buchanan Prize. She holds a Masters in Trauma Science (with Distinction) from Queen Mary University of London, reflecting her clinical and academic depth in geriatric trauma and her contribution to the Royal Melbourne Hospital State Trauma Service.
Her governance and policy leadership spans chair-level roles within major hospital medical advisory committees and professional college boards, alongside ongoing senior advisory roles across state and federal health systems. She is an Associate Fellow of both the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (RACMA) and the Australasian College of Health Service Management (ACHSM).
Dr Cubitt holds an Executive MBA from Melbourne Business School and Foundations of Directorship from the Australian Institute of Company Directors, complementing her clinical and academic leadership with advanced capability in governance, strategy, and large-scale system reform.