Dr Yvette Roe

Chief Investigator
Charles Darwin University

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Chief Investigator, Health & Wellbeing Theme, Law & Justice Theme

Co-Director of the Molly Wardaguga Research Centre, Yvette Roe is a proud Njikena Jawuru woman from the West Kimberley region, Western Australia.

Yvette has more than 25 years’ experience working in the Indigenous health. She was awarded her PhD, in 2015. As an Aboriginal scholar, Yvette’s research and priority has been to identify opportunities to improve health outcomes for First Nations peoples by delivering and evaluating services that are client, family and community focused.

Yvette has diverse interests across a number of disciplines such as public health, sociology, and realist evaluation. She is a CI/AI on 5 NHMRC and Lowitja Institute grants and leading research across multiple sites in Australia to build First Nations people research capacity.

She is a member of the NHMRC Research Committee (2018-2021) and Principal Committee Indigenous Caucus (2016-21) an advisory body for the NHMRC Council and CEO on First Nation health research and implementation of NHMRC Road Map II

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The ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures is supported by its partners and funded by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council.

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The ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures acknowledges and honours the Traditional Custodians of the land on which our Centre operates. We acknowledge Elders past, present, and emerging and recognise this was always a place of learning, teaching, and research, and that Sovereignty was never ceded.

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