Indigenous Advisory Group 2024-2027

Co-Director of the Molly Wardaguga Institute for First Nations Birth Rights, Charles Darwin University

Professor Yvette Roe is a proud Njikena Jawuru woman from the West Kimberley, WA and the Director of the Molly Wardaguga Institute for First Nations Birth Rights at Charles Darwin University. Professor Roe is an emerging nationally and internationally known leader on First Nations health with novel ideas on ensuring that First Nations Australia and is leading the research that those sustainable impacts improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Her work is supported by more than 30 years experience working in the First Nations policy and Aboriginal community-controlled health sector.

Research Fellow with Yardhura Walani, the National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research, ANU

Head of the Kulunga Aboriginal Unit and Aboriginal Health RFA Deputy Head, The Kids

Peeneeyt Thanampool Indigenous Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Melbourne

Dean of Indigenous Engagement in the Faculty of Business and Law, Curtin University

Bioinformatics Officer, Indigenous Genomics, Australian Alliance for Indigenous Genomics

Strategic Research Advisor, Lowitja Institute

Leadership Program Fellow at the University Centre for Rural Health, University of Sydney

Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Chronic and Complex Care Research, University of Wollongong

Deputy CEO, Lowitja Institute

Senior Research Fellow with Wardliparingga Aboriginal Research Unit, SAHMRI

Associate Dean Indigenous and Indigenous Principal Research Fellow Academic Development, University of Tasmania

Associate Dean Indigenous and Professor School Population Health, UNSW

Director of the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, The University of Queensland