About Mya
Growing agency and outcomes for our workforce, our patients and our communities.
Dr Mya Cubitt is a senior emergency physician, academic, and health system leader whose work centres on equity of access to health and care — at home, in hospital, and across the system.
She is National Medical Director for Care Governance and Risk at Silverchain, one of Australia's largest in-home health and aged care providers, 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 an understanding of the gap between policy intent and frontline reality.
She trained in Emergency Medicine in New Zealand and Australia following her medical degree at the University of Otago, and was admitted as a Fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, where she was awarded the Buchanan Prize. She holds a Master's in Trauma Science (with Distinction) from Queen Mary University of London and worked for over a decade at the Royal Melbourne Hospital State Trauma Service.
Her governance leadership spans hospital, university, professional college, and state and federal health. She has chaired the Medical Advisory Committee at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the ACEM Victorian Faculty, served on the Executive of the Department of Critical Care at The University of Melbourne, and held appointments to state and federal health advisory committees.
Dr Cubitt is an Associate Fellow of both the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators and the Australasian College of Health Service Management. She holds an Executive MBA from Melbourne Business School and has completed the Foundations of Directorship course with the Australian Institute of Company Directors.