NAIDOC Week with Professor Lisa Jackson Pulver AM
Event description
The guest speaker at Sydney Rotary Club's NAIDOC Week lunchtime meeting on Tuesday 10th November will be Professor Lisa Jackson Pulver AM, an epidemiologist and researcher in the area of Aboriginal health who has been Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Sydney since October 2018.
Professor Jackson Pulver will discuss the key areas of the new Indigenous strategy for the University of Sydney titled ‘One Sydney Many People’ including progress and initiatives to date and the focus for the future to 2025.
She was the first known Aboriginal person to receive a PhD in medicine at the University of Sydney. Her family comes from areas including South Western NSW and Northern Victoria, Northern NSW, Eastern South Australia, as well as from Wales and Scotland.
Among many achievements, Professor Jackson Pulver played a key role in the development of a designated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health unit, Muru Marri, in the Faculty of Medicine at UNSW and was the inaugural Chair of Aboriginal Health.
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