Aunty Fay Moseley is a proud Wiradjuri Elder, artist, and Stolen Generations survivor. At ten years old, she and her five siblings were forcibly removed from their Leeton home and separated. Sent to the Cootamundra Girls’ Home, she survived years of forced assimilation and abuse before running away to forge her own path. With immense resilience, she went on to build a distinguished career as a registered nurse and served her community in juvenile justice and as CEO of the Liverpool Local Aboriginal Land Council. For over twenty years, painting has been Aunty Fay’s vital tool for historical truth-telling and processing trauma, driven by her belief that "art heals the hurt." Her powerful works have been exhibited nationally, including at the Australian Museum. CSANZ is honoured to welcome Aunty Fay to share her story of survival, truth-telling, and the redeeming power of her art.

Ms Kim (LaVerne) Bellear is a proud Bundjalung woman from the North Coast of New South Wales. She is the Chief Executive Officer of the Aboriginal Medical Service Co-operative Limited (AMS Redfern) – the first Aboriginal community-controlled health organisation in Australia. LaVerne is a respected leader in Aboriginal Health and an advocate for self-determination. She supports Aboriginal communities to lead and manage their own health care. Her career encompasses more than 30 years in health administration in both the public and not-for-profit sectors. LaVerne has held senior leadership and directorship roles, with a particular focus on Aboriginal Health reform that delivers culturally responsive services to improve health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. She is the Deputy Chairperson of the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council (AH&MRC), a Director for Thirrili, a national provider of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide postvention support and assistance, she is the Co-Chair of the Sydney Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Health Partnership and a Member of the Board of Sydney Local Health District, one of the leading public health organisations in New South Wales. She is a former Director of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO). LaVerne has had a key role in shaping Aboriginal Health policy at both state and national levels. She holds a Bachelor of Business, a Professional Certificate in Indigenous Research: Training and Practices, and a Graduate Diploma of Public Health from the University of New South Wales.

Dr Jane Oliver is a mid-career researcher. Her postdoctoral research has addressed multiple public health issues, including infectious diseases and the impact of socio-environmental factors on health outcomes. As a Senior Research Officer at The Kids Research Institute Australia, she runs several clinical trials evaluating a novel treatment for RHD in partnership with Aboriginal communities.

Ben is an early career clinician-researcher who recently submitted his DPhil at the University of Oxford on implementing rheumatic heart disease screening, supported by a Rhodes Scholarship and in collaboration with the Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin. He is a paediatric trainee at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, and holds an advisory role with the Heart Foundation of Australia. Ben is a First Nations doctor committed to advancing First Nations children’s heart health.

Dr Edwina Wing-Lun is an interventional and general cardiologist based in the Northern Territory, Australia. She has worked in the Top End for the past eight years and for almost two years served as the Territory’s only interventional cardiologist, managing coronary presentations across one of the most geographically vast and remote health systems in the country. Her clinical work spans the full spectrum of cardiovascular care including ACS, complex structural heart disease, congenital cardiology and urgent paediatric cardiac procedures. Through this work she is committed to improving cardiovascular care for patients living in rural and remote communities. Dr Wing-Lun is a PhD candidate with the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on ACS in the Top End. She has authored or co-authored more than 25 peer-reviewed publications and presented locally, nationally and internationally, with a focus on improving cardiovascular care for First Nations peoples and remote communities in Australia.

Alex is an Aboriginal clinician/researcher who has worked his entire career in Aboriginal health in the provision of public health services, chronic disease care, health care policy and research. His transdisciplinary program of research focuses on documenting the burden and contributors to health inequality in Indigenous Australians, with a primary focus on cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes and cancer. In 2022 he took up a new position as Professor of Indigenous Genomics for The Kids Research Institute and ANU.

Anna Rolleston is the Managing Director of Manawaora, The Centre for Health, in Tauranga. Anna works in the kaupapa Maori health research space, challenging the dominance of Western science and knowledge and providing pathways for the inclusion of matauranga Maori into health in Aotearoa. She holds a number of governance roles, including co-chair of the CSANZ Indigenous Council.