Profiles And Contributions To This Article
Rural health frontiers: exploring insights, lessons, and priority actions identified through a global 40-speaker webinar series on rural health equity
position: Senior Technical Advisor, Health Equity
Consultant, Department for Gender Equality, Human Rights, and Health Equity (GRE), Director General’s Office, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland. Dr Rasic is a rural general practitioner with over 10 years of experience and consultant for rural health equity working with WHO.
qualifications: MBBS, FACRRM, FRACGP, DRANZCOG Adv
position: Chair
Dr Chater has been a rural practitioner in rural Australia for 42 years. He was the founding convenor of the Rural Doctors Associations of Queensland and Australia as well as the National Rural Health Alliance. He has been President of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine. He is Chair of the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice and Head of Discipline Rural and Remote Medicine, University of Queensland. He has a keen interest in Rural Health Policy as it effects rural communities as well as the clinical aspects of rural practice.
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