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Mick Adams Dr Mick Adams is a descendent of the Yadhiagana people of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland having traditional family ties with the Gringji people of Central Western Northern Territory and extended family relationship with the people of the Torres Straits, Warlpiri (Yuendumu), and East Arnhem Land (Gurrumaru) communities. He has been involved in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues through his many years of living and working on both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Mick has been actively involved in addressing issues associated with the health and well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males for over a decade. He has strived to ensure that men’s health issues are promoted and placed on the national and international agenda through advocacy, research, publication and health management. He completed a PhD in public health in 2007. His research examined the prevalence and correlates of sexual dysfunction among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males, which includes the area of sexual and reproductive health. Mick won the 2006 Deadlys Award for his Outstanding Achievement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health. He was recently awarded the winner of the Queensland University Technology 2010 Chancellor’s Outstanding Alumnus Award and the winner of the Queensland University Technology 2010 Faculty of Health Outstanding Alumnus Award. Mick is also an accomplished artist.
Fran Baum Fran Baum is Professor of Public Health at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. She is also Foundation Director of the Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity & the South Australian Community Health Research Unit. She has been an active member of the People’s Health Movement – a global network of health activist (www. phmovement.org) - since its formation in 2000 and currently serves as the Co-Chair of its Global Steering Council. She also served as a Commissioner on the World health Organisation’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health from 2005-08. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Science and of the Australian Health Promotion Association. She is also a past National President and Life Member of the Public Health Association of Australia. Fran Baum is one of Australia's leading researchers on the social and economic determinants of health and community based health promotion. In 2008 she was awarded a prestigious Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship focusing on the social determinants of health inequity and social inclusion. She holds a number of other grants from the NH&MRC and the ARC which are considering aspects of health inequity including impact of social capital, neighbourhood and work. For four years she has been a program leader on the social determinants of health theme for the Co-operative Research Centre on Aboriginal Health. She has an extensive teaching career in public health, including writing a number of distance education courses and designing a doctor of public health course for senior public health professions. Her text book The New Public Health (3rd edition 2008 Oxford University Press) is widely used as a core public health text.
Ned David Ned David is a Kulkalaig – a traditional owner from the Central Islands in the Torres Strait - whose homeland includes Tudu (Warrior Island), Iama (Yam Island) Gebarr (Gabba Island) Mucar (Cap Island) Sassie Zagai (Long Island) the surrounding reefs of Wapa (Warrior reef) and Thidu (Dungeness). Ned is the current Chair of the Torres Strait Islanders Regional Education Council (TSIREC), a position he has held since April 2000. Ned is a member on various committees and forums. These include:
Ned has a very broad work history that includes government and private sector. Ned’s current role as the Manager of
Ronald Labonté Ronald Labonté holds a Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity at the Institute of Population Health; and Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, at University of Ottawa. Prior to his appointment in 2004 at the University of Ottawa, he was founding Director of the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU), a bi-university interdisciplinary research organization that was committed to “engaged research” on population health determinants at local, national and global levels. For the past decade, Dr. Labonté’s work has focused on the health equity impacts of contemporary globalization. His current research projects include the health equity impacts of global health worker migration and medical tourism, globalization-related pathways of influence on the health of Canadians, health and human rights and comprehensive primary health care reform. He chaired the Globalization Knowledge Network for the World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health; participated in the 2008/9 ‘Marmot Review’ of health inequalities in the UK, and presently chairs the Working Group on global influences of the European-WHO review of social determinants of health in Europe. Prior to his work in global health, Dr. Labonté worked, consulted and published extensively on health promotion, empowerment and health, and community development for over twenty years, including 15 years employment with provincial and local Canadian governments. Dr. Labonté has published extensively in academic and popular media. Recent books include Labonté, R., Schrecker, T., Mohindra, K., Stoebenau, K. (eds.) Global Health: Major Works (4 volumes). London: Sage (May, 2011); Labonté, R., Schrecker, T., Packer, C., Runnels, V. (eds). Globalization and Health: Pathways, Evidence and Policy. London: Routledge (2009);Health Promotion in Action: From Local to Global Empowerment (with Glenn Laverack, Palgrave Macmillan. 2008); Critical Perspective in Public Health (co-edited with Judith Greene, Routledge. 2007); and Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa and Global Health (with Ted Schrecker, David Sanders and Wilma Meeus, University of Cape Town Press/IDRC Books, 2004).
Lori Lambert Dr. Lambert is an enrolled member of the Abenaki Nation and a descendent of Mi’kmaq tribal members and has over 25 years of teaching at the elementary and university levels, extensive curriculum design experience, and 17 years of distance education experience in online learning, satellite courses, and cable television. She is the recipient of numerous honors and awards. More recently, she was awarded the 2001 Excellence in Online Teaching Award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation at the 8th. Annual Asynchronous Learning Conference. At the College level, Lori taught courses in health, anatomy, health science, native studies, pharmacology, natural history, geography, geology, meteorology, ethics, aquatic ecology, and curriculum development. At the elementary level she taught health and physical education, gymnastics, fencing, swimming, and tennis. While living in Philadelphia Lori taught for 14 years at the graduate level in the Master of Arts in Education: Environmental Science Education program for Acadia University. Dr. Lambert is the e-Learning Coordinator at Salish Kootenai Tribal College on the Flathead Indian Reservation where she designed and teaches the following online courses: Dr. Lambert has presented in Australia, Finland, Norway, Canada, and Russia. She holds a nursing diploma from Cambridge Hospital, a Harvard University teaching hospital; a Bachelor of Science degree in Health and Physical Education/Therapeutic Recreation from Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; a Master of Education with a focus in Environmental Science Education; a Ph.D. Medical Ecology: Arctic Studies from the Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, Ohio; a Post Doctorate Certificate from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in Distributed learning and Technology and a Doctor of Science in Medical Anthropology from Rochville University. She is the author of numerous articles and four books: Through the Northern Looking: Breast Cancer Stories told by Northern Native Women published by National League for Nursing, 1996; Keepers of the Central Fire: Issues in Ecology for Indigenous Peoples published by Jones & Bartlett in 2000; Heart of the Salmon, Spirit of the People: Ethnicity, Pollution and Cultural Loss. (2002).1st Books Library. and Cheyenne Daughter, the story of a South Sea Island woman from Queensland and her Cheyenne father. Dr. Lambert lives on the Flathead Indian Reservation with her husband and band of Huskies.
Professor AJ (Tony) McMichael, epidemiologist, currently holds a national ‘Australia Fellowship’ (NHMRC) at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. During 1994-2001 he was Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Previously he held the Chair of Environmental Health at the University of Adelaide (1986-93), having worked during the preceding decade as Head of the Diet, Nutrition and Disease research group in Australia’s CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition. During 1990-92 he was Chair of the Scientific Council of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France. He is an advisor to the World Health Organization on environment, climate change and health, a long-time contributor and chapter-team chair (health risk assessment) for the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and is Honorary Professor of Climate Change and Health at the University of Copenhagen. In 2008 he assisted the International Council of Science (ICSU) establish its new multidisciplinary research initiative on Cities, Urban Environments and Health. His most recent books are Human Frontiers and Disease: Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and (as senior editor and author) Climate Change and Human Health: Risks and Responses (Geneva: WHO, 2003).
Frank Oberklaid Professor Frank Oberklaid is the Foundation Director of the Centre for Community Child Health at the Royal Children’s Hospital, and a Professor within the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics. He is an internationally renowned researcher having authored two books, numerous book chapters and over one hundred and fifty scientific papers on various aspects of paediatrics. He recently stepped down as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, and is on the editorial boards of several international paediatric journals. Professor Oberklaid was the founding editor of a series of national publications including Policy Briefs, Community Paediatric Review, Child Care and Children’s Health, and the Australian Paediatric Review, as well as being the National Program Director of the Australian Paediatric Review Training Program. He has received numerous research grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council and other agencies, has been a consultant for WHO and UNICEF, and has been invited to lecture and consult in many countries. Professor Oberklaid has held prominent governance positions during his career; these include Chair of the Raising Children Network Steering Committee, Chair of the Australian Early Developmental Index Steering Group, Vice President of the Australian College of Paediatrics and a member of the Council of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Founding Director and Treasurer of the Victorian Parenting Centre, Vice President of Jewish Care, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Australian Youth Foundation. He has served on a number of important national committees, including the Health Advisory Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Family and Children’s Council, the Review of the Child Disability Allowance, and the Premier’s Children’s Advisory Committee. Professor Oberklaid has received a number of awards for his work, including the AOM in 1998, the Centenary Medal in 2003, The John Sands medal from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2003, the Chairman’s medal from the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne in 2003, The Medal of Distinction from Children’s Hospitals Australasia in 2007, and the Howard Williams Medal and Oration from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Paediatrics and Child Health Division) in 2009.
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Alan Shiell Alan Shiell is the CEO of the Cente for Excellence in Intervention and Prevention Science in
Melbourne, a new research centre established by the Victorian Department of Health in 2010 to work
with it and university based researchers on the implementation and evaluation of the State's
Michael Sparks is the global President of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education. He has served previous three year terms in the IUHPE as Regional Vice President for the South West Pacific and global Vice President for Strategy and Governance. Michael has worked in health promotion for over 25 years and has written extensively on strategic directions for health promotion, translating global ideas into local contexts and social determinants. He is Associate Editor of the journal Health Promotion International and is on the Editorial Board of the journal Health Education Research. Michael has served the Australian Health Promotion Association as a member of its Management Committee for nine years and was, in that time elected two years as national Vice President, two years as national President and two years as national Treasurer. Michael also created the teaching tool ‘Chances Are’ which provides a game-based experience to teach about social determinants and what health promoters can do to address them. Michael is currently working on a book detailing his RATED framework for translating global ideas into local action. He is also Postgraduate Course Convenor in Community and Health Development in the Faculty of Education at the University of Canberra.
Sione Tu'itahi Sione is a writer and educator who works in the health and education sectors, and with ethnic and faith–based communities in New Zealand. He is the deputy executive director, and workforce development & communications manager of the Health Promotion Forum of New Zealand. He is also a strategic planning and policy adviser at Massey University, one of the eight universities in New Zealand. His western education, Tongan indigenous education, and spiritual education are some of the complementary factors that inform his work. Sione has gained a Masters (Hons) in Public Policy and other qualifications in communications, education and management. His indigenous education provides him with experiential knowledge and socio-ecological frameworks for capacity building and strategic leadership in culturally diverse contexts. His research and professional interests include human rights, capacity building, globalisation, and the interface of knowledge systems such as those of the East, West and Indigenous. He has published research reports and papers on a range of topics in public health, community development, and Pacific indigenous knowledge. He is also the author of several children story books. To contribute to the advancement of the holistic health and wellbeing of Pacific peoples in New Zealand, and to address its underlying social and political determinants, he led a number of initiatives to build their workforce capacity in health, education, and community building.
Gavin Turrell Gavin Turrell is a Principal Research Fellow (Professor) in the School of Public Health at QUT and is supported by a NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship (2006-2015). Gavin’s primary research interests are in social epidemiology, with a particular focus on the social determinants of health and health inequalities. His research is mainly population-based and examines how social and economic factors (measured at the individual, group, and area levels) influence health and health-related behaviours. His work is increasingly focusing on ways to reduce health inequalities through public policy, health policy, health promotion, and other intervention strategies.
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