Prof Ian Anderson

Professor Ian Anderson holds the Chair of Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne. He is also Director of the Centre for Health and Society, and of Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit. Ian is Chair of the National Indigenous Health Equality Council, and is also currently the research Director for the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health.

Having spent over 20 years in the field of Aboriginal health, Professor Anderson’s experience covers various areas. These have included the provision of heath services, policy development, work as a general practitioner and, more recently, as an educator and researcher.

Ian's current research interests include Aboriginal Health Policy (Primary Health Care Systems, Work Force Development, Health Performance Measurement, Health Information Systems and Research Policy). He also has an interest in Aboriginal Health and History and Society.

Assoc Prof Papaarangi Reid

Assoc Prof Papaarangi Reid, a specialist in public health medicine, is Tumuaki (Maori Dean) in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland.

Papaarangi is also the Director of the Eru Pomare Maori Health Research Centre at the Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Her research interests include the analysis and monitoring of disparities between Maori and non-Maori citizens, the construction of ethnicity and indigeneity in the social determinants of health, and the options for progressing equity.