2024 TBWC IWD KEYNOTE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT

Professor Ngiare Brown
Chancellor, James Cook University
BMed, MPHTM, FRACGP

Biography
Professor Ngiare Brown is a senior Aboriginal medical practitioner and the first female and first Indigenous Chancellor of James Cook University. She is a proud Yuin nation woman from the south coast of NSW, with a passion for Aboriginal and Indigenous health, child safety, and adolescent development. She has made extensive contributions to research process, bioethics, policy, translation, and practice within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and worked over the past two decades to develop an extensive international network in Indigenous health and research.

Professor Brown was one of the first Aboriginal medical graduates in Australia, completing her medical degree at the University of Newcastle in 1991, and later obtaining a Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine from JCU in 2000, named an Outstanding Alumna in 2012. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.
Professor Brown has held a variety of positions in education, mentoring, clinical practice, research, and advocacy. She is a founding member and foundation Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association, a founding member of the Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors’ Congress, and Associate Professor and Foundation Director of the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at the University of Sydney. She is the Founding Director of Ngaoara, a not-for-profit committed to child and adolescent wellbeing, and a Commissioner with the National Mental Health Commission.

Tickets go on sale very soon for our 2024 International Women’s Day celebrations with our annual Townsville Business Women’s Circle IWD Luncheon.
Thursday 7th March, 12 – 3 pm at The Ville Resort-Casino!
So mark your calendars, gather your tribe, and let’s honor the strength, resilience, and achievements of women worldwide!
Get ready to #InspireInclusion