IAN P.S. ANDERSON is the foundation Chair in Indigenous Health at the University of Melbourne. His family are Palawa Trouwunna: Plaimairrerenner and Trawlwoolway clans. He is Deputy Head of the School of Population Health, and Director of the Centre for Health and Society and the Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit. He is also Research Director for the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health (CRCAH). He completed a medical degree 1989 and has PhD in sociology and anthropology. Since 1998, Ian has been a full-time research academic. He has worked in Aboriginal health for about 20 years in a number of clinical/health care and administrative/policy roles. He was Medical Advisory on Aboriginal Health to the Commonwealth Department of Health, and chaired the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sexual Health working party. He was a member of the National Health and Medical Research Council and is now a member of the Advisory Group on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Statistics for the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Ian has a longstanding interest in issues of identity, representation, Aboriginal health policy, and art practice and has written on these issues.
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WARWICK H. ANDERSON is research professor in the History Department and the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney. Until 2007 he was Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Population Health, Professor of the History of Science, and Chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia (2002, 2003, 2006) and Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines (2006). His The Collectors of Lost Souls: Kuru and the Creation of Value in Science will appear in 2008. Warwick was recently awarded the Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship (2005–06) and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (2007–08). Grants from the National Science Foundation and the Australian Research Council support his new project on the history of scientific investigation of mixed race populations in the twentieth century.
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STEPHANIE BELL, a Kullilla/Wakka Wakka woman, is the Director of the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress where she has worked for over 25 years. Ms Bell is a board member of the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance NT, Chair of the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health Consortium and an executive member of the National Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Organisation. She is a founding board member of the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health. She has published and is regularly sought out to speak on Aboriginal rights, comprehensive primary health care, and community control of health services.
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ALEXANDER CAMERON-SMITH completed an honours thesis on the origins of tropical hygiene and sanitation in discourses of the city in nineteenth-century industrial Britain. He is currently undertaking a PhD thesis at the University of Sydney on the life and career of Sir Raphael West Cilento, a prominent Australian and colonial public health official before becoming director of United Nations refugee programmes in Germany and the Middle East.
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ELIZABETH CARTER is an Anmtayerre woman. She commenced working for the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress in 1981 and served for many years as Deputy Director until she retired in 1994. She has been a CAAC cabinet member since 1996. She has previously published on the Congress Alukura Women's Birthing Service and serves on the Alukura Women's Cultural Advisory Council. She is a representative on the Anmtayerre office of local government council.
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LEONIE COX holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Sydney. Her historically situated work focuses on the relationship between Aboriginal people and state institutions and examines how issues of power and control impact on health and well-being. She works as a Lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology.
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BRONWYN FREDERICKS holds a National Health and Medical Research Council Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University and the Centre for Clinical Research Excellence (CCRE) at the Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council (QAIHC, the peak body for the Community Controlled Health Services Sector in the State of Queensland). She has worked within State and Federal levels of government and the university sector and has been actively engaged with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander controlled, community-based organisations for over 25 years.
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KIM HUMPHERY is Associate Dean of Research and Innovation, and Associate Professor of History and Social Theory at RMIT University. He has previously worked as a Senior Research Fellow with the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health in Darwin and with the Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit at the University of Melbourne. He has researched and written on the Aboriginal experience of diabetes in the Northern Territory, on Aboriginal health and Western biomedical culture, and on the history of, and contemporary approaches to, ethical guidelines in Indigenous health research. His publications include Forgetting Compliance: Aboriginal Health and Medical Culture (2001, with Tarun Weeramanthri and Joe Fitz) and the much cited "Dirty Questions: Indigenous Health and 'Western Research'" (2001). His current work includes researching the history of Aboriginal health in colonial Australia.
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INAS KANSOH graduated from the University of Sydney with an Anatomy major and is currently working at the university as a technical officer in the Anatomy Department. She is interested in anatomy, its history, public perceptions/misconceptions and the differences in anatomical practices across different cultures.
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CLAIRE KENNEDY is a PhD student at the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. She is working on a dissertation about the commercial and religious influences on early modern science.
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MEREDITH KRATZMANN is the Senior Project Officer for Drugs Action at the City of Melbourne and previously worked at a needle exchange program in Canada supporting community-based research. She completed a graduate degree in Health Promotion from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her research interests include harm reduction, urban space, food security and qualitative research methodologies.
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ANNEE LAWRENCE is a freelance writer and editor. During the early 1990s she was Project Officer of the Medicines Information Project at the Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association of New South Wales. She has participated as a consumer advocate in state and federal forums and initiatives to debate and devise quality use of medicines (QUM) strategies in Australia. Annee has recently been involved in community development projects to develop social capital and improve health outcomes in disadvantaged communities in southwest Sydney. She currently lives in the drought affected rural community of Barmedman in southwest New South Wales.
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JOHNNY LIDDLE is an Arrernte man. Johnny served as the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress Director from 1981–2001. During this time Johnny's contribution to Aboriginal comprehensive primary health care was widely recognised by his peers. He has been a regular contributor to national policy forums. He is currently the branch manager of the Congress Male Health Program.
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MARGARET LIDDLE, an Arrernte woman, has served as Central Australian Aboriginal Congress cabinet member since 1998 and was previously employed until 1996 as the manager of the Welfare Section. She has published on the Congress Alukura and serves on the Alukura Women's Cultural Advisory Council. She is a member of the Lhere Artepe Native Title Holders Estate body corporate.
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PETA MALINS is the Syringe Management Project Officer at the City of Melbourne. Peta is also completing a PhD on injecting drug use in the School of Political Science, Criminology and Sociology at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests include drug use and harm reduction, food ethics, gender and urban space.
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BRIAN McCOY has lived and worked in a number of different Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities over more than thirty years. In that time he has enjoyed a wide range of roles and relationships with people in Kimberley, Northern Territory and North Queensland communities. He completed a PhD at Melbourne University on the health of desert men who lived in the Kutjungka region of the south-east Kimberley. In 2005 he was offered an NHMRC postdoctoral fellowship. He is currently based at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) at La Trobe University. His main health project continues with the desert men of the Kutjungka region of the Kimberley and its regional health service, Palyalatju Maparnpa.
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EDMUND McMAHON is a PhD candidate in the School of History and Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. His thesis explores the cultural history of social psychiatry and community mental health in Australia since World War II.
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CAITLIN MURRAY is a PhD Candidate in the School of Historical Studies and the Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne. Her thesis explores intersections between concepts of race and madness in the Australian settler-colonial context. She is also interested in public history, having worked and volunteered in museums in Australia, Canada and Britain.
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CLIVE ROSEWARNE is a research consultant in Indigenous and public health. His background is in community development, Aboriginal community and environment issues. His research work has had a strong focus on the social determinants of health. He has previously published on alcohol issues, primary health care system reform and Aboriginal health.
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JOHN E. STUART is a Senior Staff Specialist Paediatrician employed by the Hunter New England Health Service and a Conjoint Associate Professor at the University of Newcastle, School of Medicine and Public Health. Between 1969 and 1973 he carried out research into the health problems of Aboriginal children in Queensland, focusing on chronic ear disease, intestinal parasites and nutritional problems. He has been involved with providing clinical paediatric services to Aboriginal children in NSW since gaining an appointment as Paediatrician to the Manning River District Hospital in Taree in 1979 and moving to Newcastle in 1987. Among other activities, he is currently researching bacterial cultures of middle ear effusions in Aboriginal and non Aboriginal children requiring grommets for otitis media with effusion.
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PETRONELLA VAARZON-MOREL is a consulting anthropologist. Since 1976 she has worked extensively with Aboriginal people in the central Australian region. She has researched and written on oral history, Aboriginal health, housing and land management issues, as well as working on several land claims and native title claims. She is the co-author and editor of Warlpiri Women's Voices: Our Lives, Our History.
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| KATHERINE WALKER is a PhD student at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Her field of study is Britain 1485–1832 and her research interests extend to gender and medical history. |
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