NAIDOC Week Maternity Panel: How Midwives can Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! Facilitated by ACM Principal Midwifery Officer Kellie Wilton and featuring Catherine Chamberlain and Jamie Newman.

Professor Catherine Chamberlain is a Palawa woman of the Trawlwoolway clan (Tasmania), a National Health and Medical Research Council Career Development Fellow and Professor of Indigenous Health at the Centre for Heath Equity, The University of Melbourne. A Registered Midwife and Public Health researcher with over 25 years’ experience in maternal health, she has worked in remote, rural and urban settings across health service, government and university sectors. Her research aims to identify perinatal opportunities to improve health equity across the lifecourse. She is currently Principal Investigator for large multi-disciplinary projects – Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future; and Replanting the Birthing Trees – which aim to co-design and foster culturally responsive trauma-integrated perinatal care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents.

Jamie Newman, a proud Wiradjuri descendent has been the CEO of Orange Aboriginal Medical Service since 2005. He has been a past Director of the Aboriginal Health & Medical Research Council of NSW, Chairperson of the Bila Muuji Regional Aboriginal Health Service in Western NSW, a previous Board member of the Western Primary Health Network and a recently retired Council Member of Charles Sturt University. Jamie has over twenty years extensive experience working with and for Aboriginal communities at both a Government and Non-Government level.
“Being Aboriginal is a reason to succeed, rather than an excuse not to”