Mr Gregory Phillips - Researcher Profile

Biography

Gregory Phillips is from the Waanyi and Jaru Aboriginal peoples, and grew up in Cloncurry and Mount Isa.

He is a medical anthropologist with a research master's degree in medical science and a Bachelor of Arts in Aboriginal Studies and Government, both from The University of Queensland. His master's thesis, Addictions and Healing in Aboriginal Country, was an ethnography of addiction and post-traumatic stress syndromes in a remote Aboriginal community. It passed with no corrections, and was published as a book by Aboriginal Studies Press n 2003.

Gregory has developed an accredited Indigenous health curriculum for all medical schools in Australia and New Zealand (2004), founded the Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education Network (2005), and wrote a national Indigenous health workforce strategy (2008). He established the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation Ltd (2009) in the wake of the federal apology to Indigenous Australians, and has advised federal ministers on Indigenous health inequality. He was honoured in 2011 with an Australian Leadership Award from the ADC Forum.

Gregory is currently Head of School (Acting) of the School for Indigenous Health at Monash University, the nation's first dedicated school for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health in a medical faculty.

Related Links:

• School of Indigenous Health

Keywords

Aboriginal healing, culture and spirituality , Addictions , Cultural safety measures, Indigenous health, Indigenous health workforce policy, Indigenous research sciences and methodologies , Medical and health sciences education , Post-traumatic stress syndromes

Qualifications

MASTER OF MEDICAL SCIENCE

Institution: University of Queensland

Year awarded: 2001

BACHELOR OF ARTS

Institution: University of Queensland

Year awarded: 1994

Activities

Community engagement

Director, current
Bangarra Aboriginal Dance Company

Other committees

1999-2001
Queen's Trust Forum Planning Committees (Main & Indigenous)

Chair Interiam Board, 2009
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation

Chairperson and Member, 2007-2009
Maya Living Free Aboriginal Healing Centre

Development Team, Co-Chair, 2009
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation

Founder and Member, current
The LIME Network (Leaders in Indigenous Med Edu)

Member, 2008-2010
National Indigenous Health Equality Council

Member, current
Aust Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies

NIYMA Representative, 2002
National Treaty Think-Tank

Trustee & Chairperson, 2003-2006
National Indigenous Youth Movement of Australia

Awards

Academic prizes (national, international)

Australian Leadership Award, 2011
ADC Forum

Dean's Award in Workplace Excellence and Equity, 2011
Monash University

Dean's Commendation for Outstanding Thesis, 2001
University Of Queensland

Dean's Honour List Academic Excellence, 1992
California State University Sacramenton

Graduate School Research Travel Award, 1999
University Of Queensland

Scholarship, 1998-2000
National Health & Medical Research Council

Scholarship, 1998-2000
RN Hammon