Gracelyn Smallwood
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Gracelyn Smallwood {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|size=100%|AM}} (born 1951) is a professor of nursing and midwifery at Central Queensland University. She is an Aboriginal Australian of Biri descent.{{Cite web|url=https://www.health.qld.gov.au/services/townsville/board/gracelyn-smallwood|title=Professor Gracelyn Smallwood AO: Board member, Townsville Hospital and Health Board|last=|first=|date=29 May 2017|website=|publisher=Queensland Health|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503113048/https://www.health.qld.gov.au/services/townsville/board/gracelyn-smallwood|archive-date=2018-05-03|url-status=dead|access-date=3 May 2018|df=}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE1193b.htm|title=Smallwood, Gracelyn (1951 - )|last1=Kovacic|first1=Leonarda|last2=Lemon|first2=Barbara|date=12 January 2009|website=The Australian Women's Register|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503113048/http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE1193b.htm|archive-date=2018-05-03|url-status=live|access-date=3 May 2018|df=}}
Early life
Smallwood was born in 1951 in Townsville, Queensland, of Biri descent.
Nursing career
Smallwood trained in general nursing, midwifery and psychiatric nursing at the Townsville Hospital.
She was the first Indigenous Australian to be awarded a Masters of Science in public health from James Cook University.
In 2016, she was appointed Professor of Nursing and Midwifery at Central Queensland University.{{Cite news|url=https://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/news/new-era-for-smallwood/news-story/d1cfcbef5e40c29dd1d50e009b9b9779|title=New era for Smallwood|last=Nugent|first=Victoria|date=5 July 2016|work=Townsville Bulletin|access-date=3 May 2018|archive-date=22 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201222062020/https://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/news/new-era-for-smallwood/news-story/d1cfcbef5e40c29dd1d50e009b9b9779?nk=d7a884bf01de2be612a5d3ecb0a5c44d-1608618019|url-status=live}}
Other roles
Smallwood has been an advocate for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people since 1968.
On 15 January 2020, it was announced that Smallwood would be one of the members of the National Co-design Group of the Indigenous voice to government.{{cite web | title=National Co-design Group | website=Indigenous Voice | url=https://voice.niaa.gov.au/whos-involved/national-co-design-group | access-date=18 July 2020 | archive-date=18 July 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200718064711/https://voice.niaa.gov.au/whos-involved/national-co-design-group | url-status=live }}
Honours
- Queensland Aboriginal of the Year in 1986
- Henry Kempe Memorial Award at the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect in 1994
- Deadly Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Indigenous Health in 2007
- NAIDOC Person of the Year in 2014
- Member of the Order of Australia in 1992, for her service to Aboriginal Health and Welfare, and to public health, particularly HIV/AIDS.
Published works
- {{Citation|title=Aboriginal health by the year 2000|publication-date=1990|author1=Smallwood, Gracelyn|author2=Royal College of Nursing, Australia|publisher=Royal College of Nursing, Australia|isbn=978-0-909449-39-1}}
- {{Citation|title=Human rights and first Australians' well-being|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/163318589|publication-date=October 2011|author1=Smallwood, Gracelyn|access-date=3 May 2018}}
- {{Citation|title=Indigenist critical realism : human rights and First Australians' well-being|publication-date=2015|author1=Smallwood, Gracelyn|year=2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-138-81036-5}}
References
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External links
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- {{Citation | title=Smallwood, Gracelyn (1951-) | journal=Trove |publisher=National Library of Australia| url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-570343 }}
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Category:Indigenous Australian academics
Category:Australian women academics
Category:Indigenous Australian women academics
Category:People from Townsville
Category:Academic staff of Central Queensland University
Category:James Cook University alumni
Category:Indigenous Australian scientists
Category:21st-century Australian scientists