Mark Wenitong
Dr Wenitong is one of the first Aboriginal doctors in Australia and a founding member and past president of the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association (AIDA) He sits on the board of GDPS as well as being a National Mental Health Commissioner. He was the senior medical officer for Apunipima Cape York Health Council (ACCHO) for the past 11 years and left recently to semi retire, and is now chairing the QH Statewide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clinical Network and is the strategic Advisor in Research Knowledge Translation for the Lowitja Institute, the first national Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander health research institute. He sits on numerous other boards including Miwatj ACCHS in East Arhem Land and is acting chair of CEQ remote stores in FNQ and the Torres Strait Islands. He sits on the federal Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander COVID taskforce and the National First Nations Genomics committee as well as the national implementation group for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Strategy. He is a CI on several research projects including the MK cultural determinants study as well as some clinical studies. In his previous life he was medical laboratory technician and studied at the CDC in Atlanta. he also studies at the Johns Hopkins School of public health Summer Schools in international Indigenous Health. He completed the Harvard Leadership in Medical Education course. As he has worked in prison health he has been involved in DIC reviews as well as expert witness in coronial inquests into remote death clusters of RHD patients.
His worked in refugee health in East Timor and has worked for World Vision both overseas and in remote Central Australia. His main interests are now the primordial prevention of excess chronic diseases in First Nation peoples and the intersection of policy and evidence translation into primary health care practice. He was previously on the boards of AIATSIS, and the Australian Institute for Tropical Health and Medicine as well as the National Indigenous Suicide Critical Response group.
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