Studying Pharmacy to work with Aboriginal patients in rural and remote locations
Georgina Morris shares her advice for students who hope to build a career in pharmacy and healthcare and her plans for the future. Read More
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Finding a place in Community Controlled Health
Hayley Roxburgh is part of both the Wiradjuri and Bundjalung Peoples from different regions within New South Wales. Hayley is graduating from the Bachelor of Child and Family Studies. She selected this degree to support young children and their family who are currently going through hardship. Her desire to be the person families could turn for support particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic was also an influence on her studies and wanting to graduate. Read More
Representation in healthcare – Griffith Health Alumni discuss
We recently brought together Griffith Health alumni in a virtual event to talk to us about the positive impacts on the health of the individual and… Read More
Yuwahn-Kilei enables Whakawātea
Recently, First Peoples Health was privileged to host Dr Bradley Hurren and Dr Rebecca Bird from the University of Otago, New Zealand. It was a very informative day centred on information sharing informed through cultural understanding for First Peoples health students. Read More
Masters of Primary Maternity Care transcends boarders
Griffith University’s Midwifery team is working with rural communities throughout Australia to help develop the rural, remote and regional midwifery workforce by offering an innovative… Read More
Health organisations come together to ensure cultural safety
Griffith University has joined with thirty-six other health organisations to sign a National Registration and Accreditation Scheme Statement of Intent last week hosted by the… Read More
First Peoples Health: Inspiring Aspirations
The Griffith Health First Peoples Health Unit recently hosted the First People’s Aspirations to Health Programs camp on the Gold Coast Campus. Twenty-two Aboriginal and… Read More
First Peoples alumni changing the world
The First Peoples issue of Health Check featured two outstanding alumni who have made extraordinary impacts in their chosen professions. We reconnected with Brisbane GP Dr Samarra Toby and Toowoomba dentist Dr Michael Baker to ask them about their journey to being remarkable. Read More
Brisbane to the bush, via Canada
When Nikita De Thierry worked as an Indigenous co-ordinator and teacher aide at two Brisbane high schools, the prospect of attending university in Canada or working in remote Australia was as far from her mind as they were geographically. A snap decision at a Closing the Gap education workshop steered the Wurundjeri woman and former Woodridge High student towards the School of Human Services and Social Work at Griffith University. Read More
Indigenous doctor trailblazes ASD awareness
Known affectionately to her patients as “Doctor Sam”, Samarra Toby was among the first cohort of medicine students to graduate from Griffith University’s School of Medicine, and it seems, trailblazing continues to be a consistent theme for this remarkable Gangulu woman. Read More
