Keynote Address 4
Monday, November 13, 2017 |
3:05 PM - 3:50 PM |
Grand Ballroom 1/2/3/4 |
Speaker
Dr Megan Williams
Senior Lecturer
University Of Technology Sydney
Keynote Address 4 - "We wear multiple hats": Navigating multiple roles in relation to alcohol and drug use among Aboriginal people
Biography
Dr Megan Williams is Senior Lecturer in Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing at the Graduate School of Health. She has over 20 years’ experience combining health service delivery, research and education. Megan’s work occurs at the nexus of public health, criminal justice and Aboriginal health and wellbeing and is focused on Aboriginal peoples’ caregiving and health promotion strategies in the criminal justice system and post-prison release, to promote healing and reduce risks for re-incarceration, isolation and harm.
Megan is a Wiradjuri descendent, and also has Anglo-Celtic heritage. She is a research partner for ‘Living Our Ways’ study by the First Peoples Disability Network and ‘Safe Spaces’ research by Mibbinbah Men’s Spaces health promotion charity.
Chair Person
Kim Gates
Senior Project Officer
University Of Sydney