Community Development Worker/Lecturer Deputy Director (Community Programs) Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit Room 422, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street The University of Melbourne, Vic. 3010 Tel: +61 3 8344 0812 Fax: + 61 3 8344 0824 Email: clarkea@ unimelb.edu.au

Background

Angela Clarke is a Gunditjmara Woman, whose spirit country and traditional homeland is the Western District of Victoria. Angela’s position at Onemda is the Lecturer in Community Development and is also the Community Development Worker. Angela has previously worked at the Royal Children’s Hospital where she still maintains strong links and is currently the Aboriginal Programs Manager. Angela completed a Master in Public Health in 2004 and has a BA in Community Development. Angela brings to the Unit considerable experience in Koori health program development having received the Inaugural Victorian Public Health Award for Excellence in 1997 and commendations from the Public Services Commissioner for improving access at the RCH for Aboriginal families and managing diversity in the workplace by developing cross-cultural resources for staff training. Angela was also awarded a study tour scholarship from the RCH to travel to the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Finland, a trip undertaken in 1996. Angela has served her community as a board member of several Aboriginal organisations including the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service and is currently the Chairperson of the Koorie Heritage Trust.

Publications

Vickery, J., Clarke, A. & Adams, K. 2005, Nyernila Koories Kila Degaia: Listen Up to Koories Speak about Health, Koorie Heritage Trust Inc., Melbourne.

Anderson, I. P., Clarke, A., Otim, M. E., Renhard, R. & Andrews, S. 2002, 'Linking Acute Care to a Strategy for Improving Aboriginal Health', Australian Health Review, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 118–28.

Anderson, I. P., Clarke, A., Renhard, R., Andrews, S. A. & Otim, M. E. 2004, The Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Hospital Accreditation Project Community Report: Summary of Findings from Hospital Case Studies & Recommendations for Accreditation, VicHealth Koori Health Research and Community Development Unit, Melbourne.

Clarke, A., Andrews, S. & Austin, N. 2000, Lookin after Our Own, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.