Naveen is a Public Health Physician currently working as the Medical Director of the Loddon Mallee Public Health Unit. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at La Trobe Rural Health School and a Board Director at Benalla Health. He has previously held senior executive roles across the Victorian Department of Families, Fairness and Housing and Department of Health and as a Research Fellow at the Nossal Institute for Global Health. He has worked as a doctor at Monash Health and Researcher at the Grattan Institute. Naveen was a 2014 Monash Community Leadership Scholar and 2017 Westpac Future Leader Scholar. He has tertiary qualifications in Medicine & Surgery, Public Health and Economics and Development.