Speakers
Prof Cath Chamberlain
Professor of Indigenous Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Professor Catherine Chamberlain is descended from the Trawlwoolway people of Tasmania (Palawa), and a registered midwife and public health researcher. Professor Chamberlain draws on over 25 years experience in the health sector to facilitate collaborative solutions to complex health issues by applying expertise and evidence to specific contexts and needs of all stakeholders. Cath is a lead investigator on the Replanting the Birthing Trees project.
Dr Danielle Arabena
GP, Queensland Representative, RACGP Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Council
Dr Danielle Arabena is a descendant of the Meriam Mer Clan groups of the Torres Strait Islands. She is a GP, lactation consultant, medical educator and National Clinical Lead - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Training at the RACGP. Danielle works with families from pre-conception and pregnancy to birth and postpartum.
Shirley Young
Shirley Young is an Aboriginal woman descending from the Nukunu people in South Australia. She is the proud mother of two children and the Director of Two Worlds Consultancy and co-director of Endless Eden.
She has worked in various Public Service organisations over a span of 24 years in portfolios such as Health, Child Protection and Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
For the last five years she has been running a private practice called Two Worlds Consultancy that contracts services for reunification, provides therapeutic support to children in Out of Home Care, providing supervision to staff in government and non-government organisations, contracting services to the NDIS sector, delivering corporate training and development packages, and lecturing to university Social Work students on a variety of topics.