sion="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> AH Australian Health Review Aust. Health Rev. 0156-5788 1449-8944 CSIRO Publishing 36 Gardiner Road Clayton 3168 Melbourne Victoria Australia AH22124 10.1071/AH22124 Policy Reflections Leading through a pandemic S. Matthews Matthews Sue Doctor of Public Health, Chief Executive A * Administration, The Royal Women's Hospital, Locked Bag 300, Cnr Grattan Street and Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic. 3052, Australia. * Correspondence to: Sue Matthews Administration, The Royal Women's Hospital, Locked Bag 300, Cnr Grattan Street and Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic. 3052, Australia Email: sue.matthews@thewomens.org.au 2 June 2022 46 3 255 255 17 May 2022 Received 17 May 2022 17 May 2022 Accepted 17 May 2022 Published © 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of AHHA. 2022 The Authors Leading in a crisis has been studied and written about in the past. But, leading in a crisis the scale and length of the pandemic has very few publications. Implications for leaders are to lead with confidence and transparency.