Let’s Talk…Social Justice with Karl Briscoe
This week on Let’s Talk…Social Justice, Kevin catches up with the CEO of the National Association of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers & Practitioners, Karl Briscoe, to learn about the vital work of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers in the fight for health justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
The National Association is a national peak workforce association committed to ensuring Australia’s health care systems meets the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
They work to promote the prevention and control of disease and other health conditions in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities; improve the health outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; and address the under-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people working within Australia’s health care system.
Karl is a proud Kuku Yalanji man from the Mossman-Daintree area of Far North Queensland, who has worked for over 20 years in the health sector at various levels of government and non-government including local, state and national levels.
Karls vision is to see dramatic improvement in the premature mortality rates of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, not only in communities but the entire nation, ensuring that the life expectancy rates of our people are equivalent or better than that of non-Indigenous Australians.
