Clive Deverall, AM, HonDLitt (Curtin), (born 1 August 1941) was the CEO of the Cancer Council of Western Australia from 1977 to 2000.
Following his retirement from Cancer Council Western Australia in 2000, he has represented consumer interests in settings that include the National Health and Medical Research Council, Medical Services Advisory Committee, the Department of Health & Ageing and Cancer Voices.
In 2005 he worked with the Australian Senate,[1] assisting in writing the report of its inquiry into cancer services in Australia.
After years of living with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and having had a number of mini-strokes, he committed suicide on the day of the Western Australian state election in March 2017.
[5] Deverall's widow, Noreen Fynn, was on a panel that wrote voluntary assisted dying laws for the Western Australian parliament.