National Support Service

Leshay is a proud Central & Eastern Arrernte woman from Mparntwe/Alice Springs. She has a background in Aboriginal health service management and working within Aboriginal community controlled organisations in the areas of primary health care, social supports services, education and training. Leshay’s training background and experience has been in the areas of public health with a focus on Indigenous health, social and cultural health determinants, research and evaluation, human resource management and Aboriginal economic autonomy and advancement. 

Additionally, Leshay has fulfilled Directorship roles on a number of boards with strong objectives towards building Aboriginal investment strategies to develop and improve supportive pathways for Aboriginal community groups of Central Australia in pursuit of education, employment and training, sport and community support and enhancement. 

Most recently Leshay was the Regional Social Health Manager with the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health, providing strategic development supports and operational management to build capacity and efficiencies of social and emotional wellbeing, mental health and family wellbeing services across the Aboriginal community controlled health network in South East Queensland. 

Roianne is a descendent of the Kalkadoon and Djkunde Peoples. From 2016-2019 she was the Inaugural Australian Nurse-Family Partnership Program (ANFPP) Indigenous Nurse Clinical Advisor and sat on the ANFPP leadership team. She will continue to provide leadership across the National Support Service and ensure the program is developed and delivered in a culturally safe way. She will also provide leadership in the Molly Wardaguga Research Centre and more broadly within the College of Nursing and Midwifery at Charles Darwin University. Professor West was previously the Inaugural Dean of First Peoples Health at Griffith University. 

Luama is a proud Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander woman. Luama has an extensive background in both Indigenous Health and Community Services and is currently studying a Bachelor of Laws and Science (Psychology) degree and completing a Diploma of Community Development. Luama is passionate about amplifying the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and centering their life expertise to design and implement service delivery that is culturally safe, empowering, and sustainable. Luama. Luama joined the NSS team in March 2023.

Cameron is both an experienced educator and researcher. Over the course of his career, he has worked extensively across the full spectrum of health studies ranging from biomedical research through to clinical and population health studies. While primarily a methodologist, he is passionate about the area of chronic disease (especially Diabetes) in resource-limited health care settings and/or vulnerable populations. Cameron’s research interests are in biostatistics (longitudinal observational studies, clinical trials, computational statistics, multivariate and machine learning classification, and psychometrics) and epidemiology (chronic diseases, mothers and babies, clinical epidemiology, social epidemiology and vector-borne diseases).