Dr Ngaree Blow is a Quandamooka and Goreng-Goreng woman through her father’s people and Yorta-Yorta woman on her mother’s side, growing up on Wurundjeri country in Naarm (Melbourne) and currently living in Meanjin (Brisbane). She works as a MD doctor in the field of Public Health and preventative medicine in her role as Senior Lecturer and the Director of the Wurru Wurru Health Unit for the medical school at the University of Melbourne in Victoria. Ngaree is also a board director of the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association (AIDA) and has been involved in many First Nations health, research and education roles.