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17 May 2021
Professor Kate Conigrave from The University of Sydney is an Addiction Medicine Specialist and Public Health Physician based at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Her work combines treating individuals with alcohol, drug and tobacco problems, promoting the health of communities and research and teaching. She is currently the chair of the National Health and Medical Research Council's (NHMRC) Alcohol Working Group, which is charged with reviewing the guidelines to reduce the health risks from drinking alcohol.
Video transcript
[Music plays and an image of a Professor Katherine Conigrave walking along a footpath appears on screen]
Professor Katherine Conigrave: I’m an addiction medical physician, based at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and also a joint professor at Sydney Uni.
[Image changes to show Professor Katherine Conigrave, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, seated and talking to the camera]
All our work we do in partnership with the Aboriginal communities and services.
[Image changes to show Professor Katherine Conigrave seated and looking at a computer monitor with information on Indigenous health and alcohol]
NHMRC allowed us to take us from small, piecemeal studies to scale up, so we’re supporting Aboriginal health services around the country in their work in alcohol.
[Image changes back to show Professor Katherine Conigrave, seated and talking to the camera]
NHMRC has allowed us to tie together all the bits and pieces we were doing in Aboriginal health and alcohol so that we can make a more meaningful contribution.
[Screen changes on the computer monitor to show pictures of young graduates]
It’s allowing us to support Aboriginal researchers who are coming into that field, provide scholarships, provide mentoring, provide networks for them,
[Image changes back to show Professor Katherine Conigrave, seated and talking to the camera]
so that they can go to be the research experts in that field.
[Music plays and NHMRC logo appears on screen with text beside it: Building a Healthier Australia]
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