Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Council

Kirsty Jennings is a Biripi/ Worimi woman whose career has been dedicated to advancing the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Trained initially as a social worker, she worked extensively in rural Aboriginal mental health and community health services before pursuing medicine. She later completed her medical training and became a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

Kirsty currently lectures in Indigenous Health within the University of Newcastle’s Joint Medical Program, where she teaches future clinicians to deliver culturally responsive and community-centred care. Alongside her academic role, she works as a General Practitioner in the Port Stephens region and serves as a Staff Specialist in Primary Health with Justice Health, contributing to health equity for people within the custodial system.

She is the Deputy Chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Council for the RACGP and a Director on the Board of Burrun Dalai Aboriginal Corporation for Out-of-Home Care, providing strategic leadership to organisations focused on strengthening community, culture, and families.

Kirsty’s career reflects a longstanding commitment to cultural advocacy, clinical excellence, and improving health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Jenny has worked for 30 years with Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in GP, training and program and strategic planning roles. She has also worked nationally with RACGP and with General Practice Education and Training supporting GP training in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health between 2000 and 2010 until commencing as foundation chair of the Department of General Practice at Western Sydney University in 2010. Her PhD reflects on her learning about best practice in training GPs in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.

As GP Manager of the RACGP Health Unit in 2009, Jenny was excited to work with Brad Murphy on establishment of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Faculty in 2010, joining the original Faculty Council and initially serving as chair of the faculty education committee. These roles and her support for First Nations students at Western Sydney University were recognized in her award of Associate Member of the Year by the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association in 2016. Since her retirement in 2022 Jenny enjoys her role as a co-opted member of the Faculty and also is a director of South Western Sydney PHN.

Dr Angela Forrest is a proud Noongar woman and faculty member of the RACGP Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Faculty. She works in general practice in Nipaluna and is an educator at the University of Tasmania also supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and Mob medical students. She is passionate and committed to strengthening and improving health outcomes and growing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander medical workforce.

Dr Alyssa Vass is a Rural Generalist who has worked in almost every State and Territory of Australia. As a true generalist, she has worked with urban, regional and remote communities and has a special interest in women’s health, mental health, procedural skin medicine, forensic medicine, and alcohol and other drugs.

She also has a decades-long career in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health with a breadth of clinical, education, policy, research and community roles. She has been a co-opted member of the RACGP Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Education Committee for a number of years, and in 2025, was appointed as the Victorian Representative on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Council as a passionate ally.

Dr. Daniel Hunt, a Jaru and Indjibarndi man, is both a General Practitioner and Dentist. He has extensive experience in the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation sector, served as Dentist, Deputy Medical Director, and Acting Chief Executive Officer.

Dr. Hunt is passionate about healthcare for priority populations and clinical governance. Dr Daniel is the Clinical Lead for Homeless Medicine at Royal Perth Hospital and Medical Advisor to the Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia.

He is the Chair of the Blood Borne Viruses and Sexual Transmitted Infection Advisory Committee for Western Australia, stemming from an interest in managing the Australian Syphilis epidemic. In 2022, he was awarded General Practitioner in Training of the Year for WA and in 2024, Indigenous Doctor of the Year, and in 2025 award NAIDOC Person of the Year and AMA WA Advocate of the Year.

Dr Clare Frawley is a specialist GP and a fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practice. Dr Frawley enjoys the diversity of being a GP and lifelong learning having completed additional qualifications across paediatrics, sexual health, clinical governance, addiction medicine and mental health.

Clare has the privilege of working in remote Aṉangu Aboriginal communities as the community GP for Tullawon Health Service and the Medical Director for the Kakarrara Wilurarra Health Alliance (KWHA) which is an alliance of three remote health services – Spinifex Health Service (Tjuntjuntjara), Tullawon Health Service (Yalata, South Australia) and Oak Valley Maralinga Health Service (Oak Valley, South Australia).

Clare also has a passion for primary care advocacy and is a member of the RACGP advocacy network and sits on the SA Commission for Excellence and Innovation for Health (CEIH) primary care subcommittee.

Dr Joshua Preece is a Wiradjuri and Torres Strait Islander man who grew up on Darumbal Country in Rockhampton and now lives on Gadigal land in Sydney. He has been a member of the Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association (AIDA) since 2015; a member of the Indigenous General Practice Trainee Network (IGPTN) since 2024; and is a Global Atlantic Fellow after completing a 2023 Atlantic Fellowship for Social Equity.

Joshua’s previous advocacy experience includes serving as the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Officer on the National Union of Students; the Australian Representative on the OECD’s Youth Advisory Board; Postgraduate Fellow of the University of Sydney Senate; Board Secretary of the Australian Medical Students’ Association; and undertook his Practical Legal Training by volunteering part-time for the Refugee Advice & Casework Service (RACS).

Joshua holds a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Sydney; a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Queensland; and a Master of Social Change Leadership from the University of Melbourne.