About ANZBA

The Australian & New Zealand Burn Association (ANZBA) is the peak body for health professionals responsible for the care of the burn injured in Australia and New Zealand. ANZBA is dedicated to improving the lives of those affected by burn injury by encouraging higher standards of patient care through education, performance monitoring, research and promoting community awareness of burn injury prevention. 

ANZBA was established in 1976 and later incorporated in 1991 and the principal aim of the association is to encourage higher standards of burn care through research and education.

ANZBA is primarily funded through membership fees as well as fees amassed from the ANZBA Education Courses, including the Emergency Management of Severe Burns (EMSB) and Burn  Rehabilitation Course (BRC). Considerable funds are also received from philanthropic and corporate partnerships and donations.

 

ANZBA Constitution

Our Vision

ANZBA’s vision is a clinical workforce that is:

  • continuously enhanced by excellent education
  • has timely access to contemporary evidence supporting best practice in care delivery and
  • actively builds knowledge that assist other agencies and organisations in prevention activities.

 

Our Mission

ANZBA’s mission is to support burn care clinicians in:

  • care delivery – best practice treatments in appropriately resourced systems;
  • advocacy – for burn injured patients, their families and the broader community;
  • knowledge creation and dissemination.

 

ANZBA values:

  • Collegiality – we are committed to building strong, supportive, multidisciplinary, bi-national networks amongst burns clinicians so that the benefits of professional knowledge exchange can be realized in our continual striving to improve standards of care for burns patients.
  • Partnerships – we believe that prevention work is best undertaken in partnership with other organisations and agencies that can draw upon on our clinical expertise in the care of burn injured patients. We also rely on government, corporate and philanthropic support to undertake many of our projects.
  • Research – we are committed to continually strengthening the bi-national burns registry so that a robust evidence base can be built for understanding the epidemiology of burns injuries, improving burns care and informing prevention activities, raising standards of clinical governance and facilitating benchmarking activities across jurisdictions. We also strive to improve the quality of scientific work in burns care by providing an Annual Scientific Meeting so that research findings are shared and disseminated throughout the sector.

 

History of the ANZBA Logo

In 2012 after much deliberation the ANZBA Board  agreed to modernise the ANZBA logo. The new logo as seen on this website was endorsed by the ANZBA Board and membership at the Annual General Meeting held in Fremantle in October 2013.

The original ANZBA logo appeared in the first edition of the ANZBA newsletter, dated September 1978. The documented history of the logo remains sparse, however minutes from the 1977 second annual meeting acknowledged the efforts of Dr. Julian Keogh for arranging the association’s monogram.

ANZBA would like to acknowledge and thank Dr.Julian Keogh and other founders of ANZBA involved with the creation of the original ANZBA logo which served the organisation for 35 years.