Podcasts and webinars | Cultural safety in pharmacy education

Dr Erica Sainsbury

Erica Sainsbury is the primary author of the literature review. She is a registered pharmacist, with more than 30 years in the Faculty and School of Pharmacy at the University of Sydney. She has a focus on the education of interns, and on teaching the fundamentals of legal professional practice, dispensing and clinical therapeutics within the Faculty’s degree programs. She remains an Honorary Associate of the School, and still maintains a teaching role into both the degree and intern training programs. She is an elected member of the Pharmacy Council of NSW, where she is involved in the regulation of professional practice. Erica acts as a consultant to APC on a number of large projects, and is a member of their Accreditation Committee and Intern Training Program Providers Liaison Committee. While undertaking the literature review for this project, Erica realised that the process of researching and writing the report was also a journey of personal transformation. She hopes to share her reflections during the webinar.

Associate Professor Faye McMillan AM

Associate Professor in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, School of Population Health at the University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Faye is a Wiradjuri yinaa (woman) from Trangie, NSW. She is currently Associate Professor in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health in the School of Population Health at UNSW. This year she has started her new role as one of two new Deputy National Rural Health Commissioners. Here she will play a vital role in the Federal Government's agenda to increase access to rural health services. Faye was named the 2019 NSW Aboriginal Woman of the Year. She was the inaugural President of Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA). Faye is also one of our APC Board Directors.

Anna Latu

Senior Lecturer in Hauora Maori at the University of Otago
Anna has a range of research interests including Māori health, cultural competence, Māori health workforce development, social and behavioural cancer prevention, and physical activity and health issues for the next generation and diverse abilities. Anna has designed and delivered a number of Hauora Māori initiatives over the years, supporting academics and students to advance Māori health. She has a wide range of research collaborations both within the University and the community. Her networks with the local kohanga, kura kaupapa and te whare pounamu (women's refuge) keep her grounded, as she works to make a difference for her people. Anna loves to spend time with her friends and whānau. In 2019 she gave birth to Apiteniko, her pōtiki (youngest child). She was told on his arrival that he had Trisomy21, the best news ever! Api has created a whole new way of thinking and living for both Anna and her whānau. She is proud of her children and humbled that they chose her to be their mum.

Aleena Williams

Director of Immunisation and Notifiable Diseases, Department of Health, Northern Territory
Aleena is a Yugambeh woman from South-East Queensland. She is a registered pharmacist with a background in rural and remote pharmacy practice where she has supervised pharmacy students and early career pharmacists. Aleena brings a lived experience of working as a pharmacist while maintaining connections to community and country. She is a member of APC’s Indigenous Health Strategy Group and Reconciliation Action Plan Working Group.

Dr Kerry Hall

Lecturer, First Peoples Health Unit Aboriginal Health Practitioner, Griffith University
Dr Kerry Hall is a lecturer with First Peoples Health Unit, Griffith University, a descendant of the Kuku Yalanji and Lama Lama Peoples, an Enrolled Nurse and Aboriginal Health Practitioner. Her teaching and research focus include primary health care and access to care, community engagement, capacity building, health inequity with a particular interest in cultural safety and culturally safe care. More recently this has extended to include collaboration with Dr Fiona Kelly, community pharmacists and Aboriginal Health Workers on the implementation stage of the 'Feasibility study of an Indigenous Medication Review Service (IMeRSe) in Australia.
 

Dr Fiona Kelly

Pharmacy Practice academic at the School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, Griffith University
Fiona has a teaching and research focus on person-centred care, innovative pharmacy services and pharmacies as safe healthcare spaces. More recently this has extended to include collaboration with Dr Hall, community pharmacists and Aboriginal Health Workers on the implementation stage of the 'Feasibility study of an Indigenous Medication Review Service (IMeRSe) in Australia.' Related resource have been integrated into pharmacy student education.
 

Professor Debra Rowett

Discipline Leader Pharmacy, Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia
Debra has worked extensively in the area of quality use of medicines, inter-professional practice, health policy and workforce development in Australia and internationally. Debra is working with Michael Watkins Lecturer: Aboriginal Allied Health, UniSA and Associate Professor Sara Jones, Rural Clinical Education and Training in the Department of Rural Health, UniSA to develop interprofessional rural and remote teaching and learning opportunities. Their aim is to enhance curricula for pharmacy students to engage with and reflect the needs and priorities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Debra is the President Council Pharmacy Schools Australia and New Zealand.
 

Michael Watkins

Lecturer, Aboriginal Allied Health, University of South Australia
Michael Watkins is currently employed as Lecturer: Aboriginal Allied Health at the University of South Australia (UniSA) and identifies as a descendant of the Mudburra and Jingili peoples from the Northern Territory. Michael has a keen interest in developing rural health workforce, rural and remote health practice, nutritional science, Aboriginal health curriculum development and providing strategic guidance and support to university processes relating to Aboriginal strategy within higher education.
 

Verity Boustead

National President, National Australian Pharmacy Students' Association
Verity is the National President of NAPSA for the 2021/22 term. She is a current Fourth Year student undertaking her Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) / Master of Pharmacy at Monash University in Melbourne. Through her role as the NAPSA President, she hopes to work closely with the highly capable team of NAPSA Executive Directors, NAPSA Chairs and the Advisory Council, to continue the vital work of their predecessors in strengthening the knowledge and experiences of pharmacy students and interns throughout Australia, and ensuring that their future is prosperous.
 

Prianka Maharaj

Rural and Indigenous Chair, National Australian Pharmacy Students' Association
As the Rural and Indigenous Chair for NAPSA 2021/2022, Prianka’s role involves representing her fellow pharmacy students to several rural health organisations. She encourages students to apply for rural or regional placement by hosting accessible education sessions about rural pharmacy and cultural awareness and safety.
 

Simon Blacker

ACT Branch President and a National Councillor, The Pharmacy Guild of Australia
Simon is the Chair of the Guild’s Clinical Governance Committee responsible for overseeing the Quality Care Pharmacy Program and the Quality Care 2020 Requirements accreditation program. He is the newly appointed Chair of Community Pharmacies for Rural and Indigenous Australia and member of the Health Economics and Policy Committee. Simon is also a member of the Heart Foundation (ACT) Local Advisory Board and the University of Canberra Pharmacy Course Advisory Group. A community pharmacy owner and operator for over 20 years, he has community pharmacies in Parkes, Dubbo and Canberra.