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Catherine Chamberlain
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Professor Catherine Chamberlain
Professor Catherine Chamberlain is a Trawlwoolway woman (Tasmania), and Head of the Indigenous Health Equity Unit at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne. A Registered midwife and public health researcher, her research aims to identify perinatal opportunities to improve health equity across the lifecourse. She is inaugural Editor-in-Chief of First Nations Health and Wellbeing Lowitja Journal, inaugural Chief Midwifery Officer for the College of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery, and principal investigator for three large multi-disciplinary projects which aim to address intergenerational trauma impacting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in the perinatal period – Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future, Replanting the Birthing Trees, and Relighting the Firesticks.
Professor Catherine Chamberlain is a Trawlwoolway woman (Tasmania), and Head of the Indigenous Health Equity Unit at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne. A Registered midwife and public health researcher, her research aims to identify perinatal opportunities to improve health equity across the lifecourse. She is inaugural Editor-in-Chief of First Nations Health and Wellbeing Lowitja Journal, inaugural Chief Midwifery Officer for the College of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery, and principal investigator for three large multi-disciplinary projects which aim to address intergenerational trauma impacting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in the perinatal period – Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future, Replanting the Birthing Trees, and Relighting the Firesticks.
