Gracelyn smallwood biography
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Gracelyn Smallwood
Australian professor of nursing and midwifery
Gracelyn SmallwoodAM (born 1951) is a professor of nursing and midwifery at Central Queensland University.
She is an Aboriginal Australian of Biri descent.[1][2]
Early life
Smallwood was born in 1951 in Townsville, Queensland, of Biri descent.[2]
Nursing career
Smallwood trained in general nursing, midwifery and psychiatric nursing at the Townsville Hospital.[2]
She was the first Indigenous Australian to be awarded a Masters of Science in public health from James Cook University.[1]
In 2016, she was appointed Professor of Nursing and Midwifery at Central Queensland University.[3]
Other roles
Smallwood has been an advocate for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people since 1968.[4]
On 15 January 2020, it was announced that Smallwood would be one of the members of the National Co-design Group of the Indigenous v