Professor Sandra Eades is a Noongar woman from Mount Barker, WA. In 2003 she became Australia's first Aboriginal medical doctor to be awarded a PhD. Her PhD investigated the causal pathways and determinants of health among Aboriginal infants in the first year of life. Professor Eades was named NSW Woman of the Year 2006 in recognition of her research contributions to Aboriginal communities and has received a 'Deadly Award' (National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards) for Outstanding Achievement in Health. She currently serves as the Deputy Dean (Indigenous) in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

This episode was recorded on 26 April 2022

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