Indigenous Health Strategy Group

Faye is a Wiradjuri yinaa (woman) from Trangie, NSW. She is Australia’s first registered pharmacist who is Aboriginal, and the LIPPE® Network fierce leader as Chair. She is currently a Professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Faculty of Health.

Faye is the immediate past Deputy National Rural Health Commissioner for Allied Health and First Nations Health, where she played a vital role in the Federal Government’s agenda to increase access to rural health services. In 2021 Faye was appointed as a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, recognised for her significant service to Indigenous mental health, and to tertiary education.

Faye has been named PSA’s Pharmacist of the Year 2022, the 2019 NSW Aboriginal Woman of the Year and is a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity. She was the inaugural President of Indigenous Allied Health Australia and sits on the Australian Pharmacy Council Board.

Alex Burke is a proud Wiradjuri/Dharug man and registered pharmacist. He is currently working as a Lecturer (Identified) at the Sydney School of Pharmacy where he was recently awarded his PhD in “Training Pharmacists in providing cultural safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians”. His current research is on pharmacy curriculum design and including First Nations voices in this process.

Lloyd Dolan is a Wiradjuri man from Hay NSW, and has family ties to Narrandera through the Christians and Woods families, and to Mathi Mathi through the Murray and Kirby families.

Lloyd’s current role as Academic Lead (First Nations) at Charles Sturt University provides strategic leadership and direction regarding Indigenous curriculum requirements at multiple qualification levels.

Working with community members and organisations has provided Lloyd the opportunity to provide cultural advice, support, and direction to ensure culturally appropriate service delivery to both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous clients. Lloyd particularly enjoyed working on the Australian Ballet project The story of Pomi and Gobba, “Wilaygu Ngayinybula – Possum’s two minds, where he worked closely with Ella Havelka (Choreographer) and Katy McKeown (Head of Education and Outreach) to provide cultural and language advice and support for the play.

Lloyd has authored a publication: English to Wiradyuri dictionary (2025).

Chastina is a Nywaigi, Mamu, Bidjara woman. She is currently working as a Senior Clinical Pharmacist at Logan Hospital in Brisbane. She is also a Conjoint Associate Lecturer in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Queensland.

She is passionate about sharing her stories of knowing, being and doing pharmacy and healthcare business, especially in regard to the health and wellbeing of Australia's First Peoples.

Jared is a proud Yuwi man, registered pharmacist, and early-career researcher with interests spanning from culturally safe and effective pharmacy practice through to new technologies for pharmaceutical development, including 3D printing medicines. 

After graduating from UQ in 2012, he worked in community pharmacy before completing a PhD focusing on discovering new drugs for Alzheimer’s disease. His PhD led to his role as a Lecturer with UQ School of Pharmacy in 2021, where he contributes significantly to curriculum design - particularly embedding cultural safety education in health programs across UQ, and directly supports First Nations pharmacy students at UQ as the School of Pharmacy Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Liaison. 

Jared also expands his work into the local community as a clinical and research pharmacist with the Institute of Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH), and nationally through engagement with the APC.

Leanne (of Ngāti Rangi, Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, and Muaūpoko ancestry) works clinically as a pharmacist prescriber across the Central Plateau of New Zealand in General Practice and Marae Clinics. She is dedicated to weaving together clinical excellence, cultural safety, and Indigenous knowledge and values, promoting a genuinely holistic, societal approach to wellbeing—one that honours Indigenous worldviews, recognises the determinants of health, and challenges narrow, biomedical perspectives of “health.”

Over many years working across clinical practice, national governance, and policy leadership roles, Leanne has championed models of care that emphasise wellbeing cannot be separated from social, environmental, cultural, and economic conditions, and that systems must reflect the lived realities and aspirations of communities rather than perpetuate transactional approaches to care.

Sir Tumu Te Heu Heu (Paramount Chief) appointed Leanne to the Tūwharetoa Iwi Māori Partnership Board, and similarly, she is a recent appointee to the Rangitāmiro Investment Board for the unique lens she offers. In addition to clinical work, she is currently the National Clinical Renal Network Co-Lead for Health New Zealand, the Co-Chair of the New Zealand Cardiovascular Kidney Metabolic Committee and a member of the National Clinical Practice Committee. Leanne has been recognised as one of the 100 Māori leaders in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Associate Professor Anna Tiatia Fa'atoese Latu is the Program Director of the New Zealand Graduate Medical School (NZGMS) at the University of Waikato. A specialist in Hauora Māori, her work focuses on health equity, workforce development, and social-behavioural cancer prevention.

Anna is recognised for designing transformative health initiatives that bridge academic research with community needs. Her leadership is deeply informed by her active involvement with local kōhanga, kura kaupapa, and community groups, ensuring her work remains grounded in the lives of her people.

In 2019, the arrival of her pōtiki (youngest child), Apiteniko, and his Trisomy 21 diagnosis sparked a "new way of thinking and living" for Anna. This personal journey fuels her advocacy for diverse abilities and her commitment to creating a healthier, more inclusive future for the next generation.

Shi-Anne Wallace is a proud Aboriginal woman apart of the Mamu mob, in the Innisfail region of Far North Queensland, with connections to the Goreng Goreng nation. 

She is a fourth-year pharmacy student at James Cook University, Nguma-bada campus (Cairns), living on the Atherton Tablelands. Shi-Anne is the first inaugural Indigenous Chair on the National Australian Pharmacy Student Association (NAPSA) working alongside the first fully identified Indigenous committee. 

Shi-Anne's strong passion for Indigenous health along with her beliefs, values and experiences position her to strive to make a substantial difference to Indigenous health now, and for future generations once she is a qualified health professional.  

Aleena is a Yugambeh woman from South-East Queensland. She is a registered pharmacist with a pharmacy background in rural and remote pharmacy practice and public health. She works across the industry in a variety of roles, is a PHD candidate at the University of Queensland and holds a position as the Director of Immunisations and Notifiable Diseases at NT Health.

Aleena brings a lived experience of working as a pharmacist while balancing the need to maintain connections with community and country.

Aleena also sits on the Australian Pharmacy Council Board.