Ethical Governance

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Our Governance Quality Policy Ethics Committee

Our Governance

Corporate and Ethical Governance is at the core of the Genea’s approach to its responsibilities to its stakeholders and we pride ourselves on striving to meet the highest standards of ethical and corporate governance. Our approaches to corporate governance are outlined in this section of the website.

If you have any specific questions please direct them to:

The Company Secretary Genea Limited

Box 4384 GPO

Sydney NSW 2001

Genea Quality Policy

Genea is dedicated to the provision of the world leading, quality products and services which will improve outcomes for people concerned about their reproductive health and facilitate the advancement of treatment options for people with genetic diseases.

We are committed to carrying out all of our business activities in a manner consistent with our Company Values:

To ensure compliance with the laws and regulations pertaining to all the countries in which our products and services are offered
To conducting our business in a sustainable manner
To continually improve the quality, safety and performance requirements of our products and services
To ensure the continual improvement of, and ongoing effectiveness of our Quality Management System that is based on the principles that identify, manage and evaluate our key business activities, and reduce process, people, health and safety risk.
Our Quality Management System is understood, implemented, and maintained by employees at all levels.

Genea Day Surgery

Genea is committed to the creation of safe healthcare environments through the implementation of practices and systems that maintain and improve the reliability and quality of patient care, as well as improve patient outcomes.

Genea Day Surgeries are accredited to the National Standards for Safety and Quality in Healthcare.

Genea Ethics Committee

The purpose of the Ethics Committee is to review, and approve, as necessary, policies, clinical trials, research projects and ethical practices of Genea in a manner which meets the requirements of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) for institutional ethics committees.

It is registered with NHMRC as Genea Ethics Committee –EC00289. The committee is maintained by the Board of Directors and is composed entirely of men and women who are independent of the Company and who are eminent in the community.

Required Attendees (chair and members need to comprise categories required by NHMRC to fulfill all the functions required of such a committee)

Current participation is as follows:

Category	Name	Role
Chair	Sally Joy	Chair
Lay people	Taryn Gesmundo	Layperson (female)
Lay people	Victor Ziegler	Layperson (male)
Counselling, professional care	Barbara Ramjan	Professional care, legal guardianship
Pastoral care, Aboriginal elder, Minister of religion	Rabbi Dr Ben Elton	Chief Minister, Great Synagogue
Independent lawyer	Michael Zhou	Lecturer in Health Law and Professional Ethics at Flinders University, Head of Legal, Compliance, and Risk at Liebherr-Australia Pty Ltd
Researchers	Judith Walker	Post-Doctoral Fellow/Clinical Trials Manager Conjoint Associate Lecturer, UNSW
Researchers	David Sharkey	Senior Research Fellow \| Robinson Research Institute and School of Biomedicine

You can download our Terms of Reference here.

Feedback or complaints concerning research undertaken at Genea or the conduct of the HREC please contact the secretary of the Ethics Committee via email ethics.committee@genea.com.au.