Minum Barreng Staff
Shaun Tatipata
Deputy Head of Advocacy and Leadership. Academic Specialist: Indigenous Eye Health Leadership
Minum Barreng Honorary Staff
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Melbourne Laureate Professor Emeritus Hugh Taylor has retired from being the head of IEHU in 2022 which he started in 2008. Between 2000 and 2008 he was Head of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Melbourne and the Founding Director of the Centre for Eye Research Australia. Prior to that, he was a Professor of Ophthalmology at the Wilmer Institute at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore with joint appointments in the Departments of Epidemiology and International Health.
Professor Taylor's research interests include blindness prevention strategies, infectious causes of blindness and the development of health policy. His current work particularly focuses on Aboriginal eye health and the elimination of trachoma. Professor Taylor has written 30 books and reports including a book on trachoma, and more than 700 scientific papers. He has received multiple international awards and prizes. In 2001, he was made a Companion in the Order of Australia. He has been President of the International Council of Ophthalmology, Vice President of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, and Chairman of Vision 2020 Australia.
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Academic Specialist – Indigenous Eye Health Policy & Practice
Dr Guy Gillor
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Guy Gillor is an Academic Specialist: Indigenous Eye Health Policy and Practice (Senior Research Fellow) at Minum Barreng: Indigenous Eye Health Unit, University of Melbourne. Guy 's work focuses on equity and self-determination in health, health systems reform, policy and advocacy. Prior to joining the Unit in 2019, Guy worked with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO) and the Aboriginal Medical Service Western Sydney among other roles. Guy holds a PhD from the University of Western Sydney, his dissertation traces the early history of the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services movement in Australia. Before moving to Australia in 2007, Guy worked for Physicians for Human Rights in his native Palestine/Israel, advocating for equitable access to health services.
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- Associate Professor Kris Rallah-Baker
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Associate Professor Kristopher Rallah-Baker is a specialist ophthalmologist based on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.
Inspired by his mother, who was one of Australia’s first Indigenous health workers, and then by the work of Fred Hollows, Kris completed his undergraduate Medical Degree at the University of Newcastle, followed by specialist ophthalmology training with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists and was offered a Fred Hollows Foundation Fellowship in 2017. Kris spent time working closely with Indigenous populations in Alice Springs, as well as time overseas in the Pacific Islands.
Kris is Australia’s first and currently only Indigenous ophthalmologist. He was the founding member of the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association and immediate ex-President, former AMA Federal Councillor, Director on the Federal Board of the Royal Flying Doctors Service, technical advisor to the Fred Hollows Foundation and Chair of the Vision2020 Indigenous Committee.
His ophthalmic interests include cataract, glaucoma, diabetic eye disease, and diagnosis and treatment of macular degeneration.
Kris joined Minum Barreng in 2020 as an honorary staff member, providing technical and practical guidance to the Minum Barreng: Indigenous Eye Health Unit.
