Peter Archer is an emergency physician at Royal Children’s Hospital, Adult Retrieval Victoria. the Field Emergency Medical Officer program, and is a WHO Global Emergency Medical Teams Mentor with Indonesia’s Muhammadiyah EMT.
He has an interest in disaster and retrieval medicine teaching and holds honorary positions with University of Melbourne and Charles Darwin University.
He has previously held a Medical Director roles with the disaster response team at the National Critical Care & Trauma Response Centre and as director of emergency services at Eastern health. He has been involved in disaster team responses including; FEMO program and AUSMAT COVID-19 responses; 2020 Victorian Bushfires; 2019 Samoan Measles Outbreak; 2018 PNG Highlands Earthquake; 2018 Tongan Cyclone Gita; 2016 Fiji Cyclone Winston; 2015 USAID Liberian Ebola response; 2013 Philippines Typhoon Haiyan and 2009 Victorian Black Saturday Bushfires.
