Melbourne School of Population Health

Indigenous Development Officer Centre for Health & Society and Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit Melbourne School of Population Health Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 Tel:    +61 3 9035 7657 Fax:    +61 3 8344 0824 Email: kristi.roberts@unimelb.edu.au

Kristi completed honours in Science at Monash University in 2004 after spending most of the 1990’s playing bass guitar in an Irish band. She then completed her Masters in Social Psychology at The London School of Economics and Political Science and brings her experience in community–based approaches to health and development working in cross-cultural contexts. Those include Thailand and Botswana, which she called home for one and five years respectively. In Botswana Kristi’s research ranged from warthogs to community-led HIV prevention research in adolescents. In Australia, her work has included project analyst at Cape York Partnerships led by Noel Pearson.