| Ms Leanne Coombe |
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Lecturer, Indigneous Public Health |
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| Biography |
Leanne has recently joined the Onemda team to continue the work progressed by Bill Genat on the Indigenous Public Health Capacity Building project. She was originally trained and qualified as a Dental / Oral Health Therapist in Melbourne, before moving to Queensland where she worked in Brisbane, Mt Isa and the gulf region, and then Cairns and Cape York.
Since then she has been a lecturer in rural practice and Indigenous health at the University of Western Australia’s Centre for Rural and Remote Oral Health. This was followed by executive management within the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Department of Health and Ageing, based in Brisbane where she led the development of the Cape York Regional Health Forum and planning for the Cape York Health Reform agenda. She subsequently moved to the role of Chief Transition Officer with the Apunipima Cape York Health Council in Cairns, leading the planning and designing of the Cape York Health Reform project and the transition to community control of primary health care services, which is now being implemented across the region. She then branched into public health consultancy work and has continued to specialise in Indigenous health projects.
Leanne has also expanded into International health, working in Samoa, Papua New Guinea and Japan, with organisations such as the World Bank, World Health Organisation, APEC, Human Scale (UK), TropLinks Inc. and JTA International. This work has included a range of projects including community development, program evaluation, service planning and modelling, and governance capacity building. She has a Graduate Diploma in Professional Communication (Public Relations) from the University of Southern Queensland and a Master in Public Health (Indigenous Health) through the University of Queensland.