Prof Ngiare Brown

Chancellor of James Cook University

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.

Tracey Osmond (MC)

Director of The Voice Singing School + Lead Singer of Abbey Road,

Master of Ceremonies

Tracey is a very familiar face in the Townsville community, as the director of The Voice Singing School and lead singer of popular corporate band Abbey Road.

Tracey has coupled her 38 year singing career with her pedagogical studies both in Australia and overseas, to create a school offering an amazing environment for producing confident, well equipped singers who are able to realise their potential both on and off the stage.

Tracey is moving into her 26th year of teaching and now has 7 teachers who work alongside her. She and she provides constant training to her teachers to ensure the school’s 200 students receive healthy and efficient vocal technique. Tracey is a graduate of Griffith’s Conservatorium of Music and holds a Masters in Music Studies (vocal pedagogy). She has a passion for people and a love for teaching and considers it an incredible privilege to help someone find their true voice.