Emma Stanford National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Health Conference

Emma Stanford

Emma Stanford has a BA, BSc and a Graduate Diploma in Environmental Science from Monash University. Emma has more than twenty years experience working in health from an Aboriginal, government, hospital and medical research perspective. Emma has worked as a policy adviser to two Federal Health Ministers, she has worked in communications at the Royal Women’s Hospital and as Executive Officer for the Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes. Emma is a Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Head of the Indigenous Eye Health Unit at the University of Melbourne involved in the senior management of the group and with a focus on trachoma elimination. In 2024, Emma was awarded an OAM for her contributions to Indigenous Eye Health.