Dr. Michelle Dickson is a Darkinjung/Ngarigo (Aboriginal, New South Wales, Australia) academic in the Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney. She lives and works on Gadigal land and commenced at the University of Sydney in 2010. Dr Dickson has worked in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing service delivery and health professions education for 25 years. She is Academic Program Director of the Graduate Diploma in Indigenous Health Promotion program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health professionals and provides leadership in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing within, and external to, her Institution and the Public Health sector.