Kalinda Griffiths PhD, MPH, BBMSc

Kalinda is a Yawuru woman and epidemiologist. She is the Wingara Mura Leadership Program Research Fellow at the Sydney Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Statistics at the University of Sydney and Honorary Fellow with Menzies School of Health Research. Her work includes addressing disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people with cancer and understanding how to better measure health inequities. Kalinda has worked in Indigenous health research since 1997, with particular interest in data linkage and how descriptive epidemiology is translated to health policy and practice to close the gap in Indigenous health. She is located in Darwin and is also a cancer survivor.