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PEOPLE: Laura’s transition from allied health professional to tech startup founder
In this interview, Laura outlines how her career in allied health led to her founding her own startup, Theratrak, a HIPAA certified digital platform that enables allied health professionals to create, monitor, and track custom therapy home programs for children.
VIEW: Australia is a country that will constantly struggle to decolonise
A guest post from Dr Kirstie Close, an academic historian who has worked in universities in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Fiji.
PEOPLE: How Charlotte is streamlining clinical trials with Evrima Technologies
In this interview, Charlotte Bradshaw outlines why she founded Evrima Technologies, how it has grown eight-fold in the last six months, and how she is planning to expand the business in 2021.
ADVICE: Transitioning from 23 years in health care to business management
Newly appointed COO of Physio Inq, Liz Pearson, Liz has been a clinical physio for 23 years but felt with her experience she could offer support to younger physiotherapists. After joining Physio Inq in September of 2019, Liz was supporting the co-founder as a state manager for the Mobile & Community services arm of the company. Her addition to the team helped define the role of a state manager.
PEOPLE: Why Dr Helena Rosengren is opening doors for female skin cancer doctors
Dr Helena Rosengren explains why she is passionate about being a skin cancer doctor, training and getting more women upskilled in the field, and how the pandemic is impacting skin cancer treatments.
VIEW: Misconceptions About Women & Mental Health That Therapists Hear Often
A guest post from Jennifer Okolo, who is a therapist and the founder of She Aspires.
PEOPLE: How Zara reacted after uncovering flaws across almost every aspect of the healthcare system
Zara Lord founded uPaged after experiencing first-hand and discovering from further research the depth and breadth of flaws in the Australian healthcare system, including over-working nurses and inefficient management of hospital budgets, leading to poorer patient experiences. In this interview, she outlines how she is addressing these problems with technology and her goals for uPaged despite the disruptions of the pandemic.
PEOPLE: How Natasha Price is empowering people with disabilities
Natasha Price saw an immediate need for services that helped empower people with disabilities and also equipped businesses with the toold and knowledge needed to build inclusive workplaces. In this interview, she outlines why she launched InvincAble and what makes their approach to diversity and inclusion effective.
VIEW: Why 2021 will be the year for Australian tech
A guest post from Sarah Neill, Founder of Mys Tyler, a fashion tech company solving the $1 trillion “fit” problem, by creating a more empowering and personalised shopping experience for all women.
PEOPLE: How Angela Wood is supporting communities with a Big Group Hug
Angela Wood started Big Group Hug as a way to redistribute pre-loved goods to vulnerable families. During the pandemic, the need for these services has skyrocketed, while the means to deliver the services have become more challenging. In this interview, Angela shares how she has established Big Group Hug as a volunteer-led organisation over the years, and how she has navigated the pandemic to help as many as she can.
PEOPLE: Celebrating Aussie STEM Stars through storytelling
Children’s author and science writer, Cristy Burne, discusses her involvement with Aussie STEM Stars, a series of narrative biographies that share the childhood and lives of high-achieving Australian scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians.
ADVICE: There is no excuse for not hiring people with a disability
As the global pandemic has forced many businesses to re-assess how they build and foster inclusive workplace environments, this interview with Karen Knight, Vision Australia General Manager Client Services, covers how businesses can be more inclusive for people with disabilities and the value of looking past stereotypes and misconceptions around working with disabilities to develop truly diverse workplaces.
VIEW: Why Sally has an ‘Eye to the Future’ with Blind Citizens Australia
A guest post from Sally Aurisch, General Manager of Projects and Engagement at Blind Citizens Australia.
ADVICE: How to build workplaces that are welcoming to people with disabilities
A guest post from Tom Appelbee and Graeme Firth from Fenetic Wellbeing
