Profiles And Contributions To This Article

Reducing the risk of pandemic influenza in Aboriginal communities

qualifications: GCPH

contribution: original concept

position: Program manager health protection

Australia

Areas of interest and work: - Communicable diseases - Immunisation - Aboriginal health - Equity focus for health protection

Glenn Pearce

qualifications: BSc

contribution: collected data

position: Senior environmental health officer

Australia

Kylie Taylor

qualifications: CertV

contribution: collected data

position: Public health assistant

Lisa Orcher

qualifications: Dip

contribution: collected data

position: Aboriginal health coordinator

Sherry Saggers

qualifications: PhD

contribution: contributed to drafts

position: Professor and project leader

Australia

Sherry Saggers, PhD, is Professor and Project Leader of the Social Contexts of Substance Use at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology. An anthropologist, she has researched and published on Indigenous health, substance use, well being and community development; the sociology of the children, families and young people; and on the evaluation of health and comunity programs across Australia.