Culture, Diversity and Health in Australia

Dr Tinashe Dune 0000-0001-5758-7525 Dr Tinashe Dune?is a multi-award winning Senior Lecturer in the areas of health sociology and public health and is also a clinical psychology registrar.?At Western Sydney University Dr Dune teaches?in the Interprofessional Health Science program. Her research and teaching focuses on marginalised populations.?This includes the experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse people, those living with disability, ageing populations, LGBTIQ-identifying people and Indigenous populations.?Dr Dune?utilises mixed-methods approaches and interdisciplinary perspectives which support multidimensional understandings of the lived experience, health outcomes and empowered ways to improve wellbeing.Dr Kim McLeod 0000-0001-6922-7615 is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences?at the University of Tasmania. Kimcombines social theory with creative qualitative research methods to explore?contemporary health issues in novel ways.?She contributes this approach to transdisciplinary projects with researchers from the Health Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences. Kim's teaching expertise is introducing health profession students to cultural safety and?the social context of health. She leads?collaborative research projects to explore best teaching practice in this area.?Dr Robyn Williams 0000-0002-6107-1887 has nursing and education qualifications and has over thirty-seven years of experience of working with Indigenous peoples, primarily in the Northern Territory but also all over Australia. Her fields of expertise include cultural safety, effective communication; curriculum development and program implementation; evaluation of community based programs; and qualitative research in Indigenous and rural and remote health issues and culturally safe practitioners.?