| Governance of Mibbinbah |
Directors of Mibbinbah's BoardMr Rick Hayes, Chairperson Mr Jason Barrow Mr Craig Williams Mr Jack Bulman Dr Alex Brown Dr Brian McCoy Core Group Members (Steering Committee)Mark Wenitong Koomla Tsey Mick Adams Brian McCoy Alex Brown Mick Gooda Craig Williams Rick Hayes Kevin Rowley Jack Bulman
MR RICK HAYES CHAIRPERSON
Rick is a leading researcher on non-pathologising approaches to men's health in Australia and is often invited to speak and lecture on matters relating to the social dimensions of men's health. With his research partner, Jack Bulman (CRCAH), he is currently engaged in research relating to Indigenous men, men’s sheds/spaces and health.In addition to being the Undergraduate Coordinator for the Bachelor of Health Science Course, Rick lectures in health promotion and public health subjects at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He works on the health promotion team to provide reflective practice and mentoring opportunities for health promotion workers in the field and field placements for students. He also works closely with agencies in urban and rural settings to develop 'community and campus partnerships for health'. Rick is also a doctoral candidate at the School of Public Health. His topic is: The 'Dialectics' of Survival for 'A Force' on the Burma-Thailand Railway (1942-1943). The thesis explores the perceived salience of the prisoners belonging to groups influenced by various cultural, personal and religious values with regard to their ability to meet vital physical and social needs through various technological, economic and political means. He is using a modified case-study approach that draws upon the various narratives (e.g., diaries, reports and memoirs) of the Medical Officers and the non-medically trained men of 'A Force'
MR JASON BARROW
Jason is a Noongar man with extensive family ties throughout the South-West of Western Australia. He has a background in environmental science, heritage & cultural tourism, land management, land care and in delivering cultural awareness and other educational programs. He has coordinated research projects and stakeholder management initiatives and has completed the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre’s Certificate IV course for emerging Indigenous leaders. Jason has a growing national profile in the area of Indigenous men’s social and emotional wellbeing. He is leading the development of Kurongkurl Katitjin into an Interpretive Centre. DR ALEX BROWNDr Alex Brown is an Aboriginal Man from the South Coast of NSW. He completed his Bachelor of Medicine in 1995 and in 1998 undertook his Masters in Public Health in Israel. Alex has recently submitted his PhD thesis on chronic disease and depression in Aboriginal men in Central Australia. Alex has been a driving force in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and has worked tirelessly for over 10 years in education, policy, communicable disease control, service delivery and public health, epidemiology, research and research ethics. Alex ran the Centre for Disease Control in Alice Springs between 1999 - 2003 following this he moved to the role of Senior Research Fellow with the Menzies School of Health Research. Alex currently Heads the Centre for Indigenous Vascular Research, Baker IDI where he has spent the past six years developing a program of research with a particular focus on Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes and Rhuematic Health Disease. He has presented extensively across the country, and overseas and has a number of publications including invited editorials discussing Cardiovascular Disease in Aboriginal Australians and key Evidence Based Guidelines for Cardiovascular Disease in Aboriginal people. Dr Brown represents Aboriginal issues on a number of national committees and at national forums. His work on psychosocial determinants of Cardiovascular Disease in Indigenous men, depression in Indigenous men, quality of care and outcomes following ACS (Acute Coronary Syndrome), KVC ( Kanyini Vascular Collaboration) Programme, the polypill trial in Aboriginal people, and landmark survey of heart failure in Aboriginal communities place him at the forefront of a key research group for chronic disease in Aboriginal people.
DR BRIAN MCCOYBrian grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell. In 1970, he was asked to help run a camp at Lake Tyers for Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth. This began a fourty year career in Indigenous affairs. Brian worked in very different Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, mainly in northern Australia. These included Townsville, Palm Island, Bathurst & Melville Islands, Wadeye, Nauiyu Nambiyu, Warmun, Broome and the WA desert region that included the Wirrimanu, Malarn, Yaka Yaka and Kururrungku communities. His activities have included work with men (including coaching football, visiting prison and youth detention centres) as also involvement in health education, first aid and emergency services. He has also worked with petrol sniffers, been a member of the WA St John Ambulance and the State Emergency Service and is an ordained Jesuit (Catholic) priest. In 2004, he completed a PhD at The University of Melbourne that focussed on the health of the men of the Kutjungka region of the south-east Kimberley, Western Australia. This was later published as Holding Men: Kanyirninpa and the health of Aboriginal men. In 2006, he was awarded an NHMRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS), La Trobe University. This research project focussed on the delivery of health services to men in the same WA desert region. In 2010 he was appointed as a Senior Research Fellow in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health at La Trobe University. From August to December 2010 he will be the Visiting Scholar as part of the Native American Studies Program, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. |
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