Dr. John Hunter

Biography

John Hunter is an Indigenous Academic at the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences at Macquarie University. He is based in Greater Western Sydney, which is recognized as the largest inter-tribal urban Aboriginal community in Australia. With family connections to the Gamilaraay and Wiradjuri Nations in New South Wales, his work primarily focuses on community-based solutions that facilitate self-directed, sovereign change to address the marginalization and disadvantage affecting Aboriginal communities. He employs Indigenous research methodologies to support the development of community capacity and cultural restoration in alignment with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. He holds a PhD in Indigenous Traditional Knowledge from Macquarie University, awarded on January 1, 2013. His research interests engage with Indigenous cultural and social wellbeing, supporting policy-makers in Australian communities through lessons learned from these community-based approaches.

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