Biography

Growing up as a Wiradjuri and Wemba Wemba man on Bunurong Country in Victoria, Australia, I witnessed the gap between how health systems serve Indigenous peoples and how Indigenous communities understand our own wellbeing. This disconnect drew me to psychology, where I completed my Honours at the University of Melbourne and began investigating how cultural practices can heal mental health, not merely as adjuncts to Western clinical models. This led to publications in The Lancet Psychiatry and the Medical Journal of Australia on Indigenous knowledges and evidence-based practice.I currently work within Melbourne University's Medical School to embed culturally safe frameworks into medical education, shaping how future doctors understand and respond to Indigenous health. At Cambridge, my MPhil in Health, Medicine and Society will extend this work, examining how health knowledge is produced and what genuine culturally safe care looks like, with a focus on comparative Indigenous health governance.I then intend to pursue clinical training in psychology and research as an Indigenous clinician-academic to ensure future psychologists and doctors are equipped to deliver care that honours Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies.

Previous Education

University of Melbourne Psychology 2023
University of Melbourne Psychology and Philosophy 2022
McGill University Philosophy 2022