Professor Sandra Eades is a Noongar woman from Mount Barker, WA. Sandra is a leading public health academic and respected Noongar woman who has been influential in improving the health of Aboriginal communities across Australia has been appointed the new Dean of the Curtin Medical School, commencing in March 2020. She has the honour of being Australia’s first appointment of an Indigenous Dean to a medical school and was the first Aboriginal woman to graduate from the University of Newcastle with a Doctor of Medicine.