Mary has been a medical practitioner for thirty years. She has worked as a GP in mainstream community health, in Aboriginal community settings in desert Aboriginal communities and from 2009-2017 as the Medical Director at the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service. Mary wrote the chapter on Preventing child maltreatment in the latest edition of the NACCHO-RACGP National Guide to a preventive health assessment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and most recently has led the redevelopment of the annual health check for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (MBS Item 715). She is also leading development of a Best practice guide to cognitive impairment and dementia care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in primary care as part of a 5-year NHMRC study to improve detection of cognitive impairment and dementia care, which will soon be published and publically available. Mary has been involved in research and held roles as policy and clinical advisor in wide-ranging areas including primary care, population health, efficacy and acceptability of models of health care, and safety and quality of health care. Mary has long-standing interests in: health equity; clinical governance and what it takes to support safe, high quality care especially in primary care; workforce wellbeing; and what it takes for people to really experience effective health care.

Jacinta McKenzie works as the Integrated Team Care Supervisor/Indigenous Health Project Officer at Country & Outback Health Inc. in South Australia.

Ada Wilmadda Parry, is a Brinkin woman, a grandmother of 12, and her languages are Marrithiel/Nganghikurrungurr. She has lived in Darwin since 1985 and her homeland is Woodygupildiyerre, in the western Daly River region of the Top End (NT). Ada began working with medical students in 1993, and has been a Senior Cultural Education at NTGPE (Northern Territory General Practice Education). She was a cultural educator at Menzies - School of Health Research from 1993 – 1995 then again from Sept 2015 - Dec 2018. Ada was a Cultural Advisor & Project Officer on the Optimising Rotavirus In Aboriginal Children (ORVAC) study. In 2006 she began and runs 3-day Cultural Immersion trips to her homelands for medical students, GP registrars and GPs from around the country and 2015 joined the RACGP Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Council as a community representative. Ada continues to deliver cultural education to young lawyers who come to Darwin to work with North Australian Aboriginal Family Legal Service (NAAFLS), and in Nov 2018 took on the role as the Cultural and Education Advisor with the RACGP Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health