Odette Mazel
LIME Network Project Manager
omazel@unimelb.edu.au [1]
Background
Odette Mazel is the Program Manager for the Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) Network. She will work with the other members of the LIME Team to plan, implement and evaluate strategies to ensure the quality and effectiveness of teaching and learning of Indigenous health in medical education and curricula.
Odette has come from the Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements with Indigenous Peoples in Settler States (ATNS) Project [2] in the Centre for Health and Society where she was a Research Fellow and the Project Manager. She has several years experience in managing and contributing to research projects with a focus on issues concerning Indigenous people. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and Laws and has worked for Australian Government Solicitor and for Southern Cross University in the School of Law and Justice. She is also undertaking her Masters of Law.
Laura Thompson
LIME Network Project Officer
lmt@unimelb.edu.au [3]
Background
Laura Thompson is the Project Officer for the Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) Network for the Medical Deans of Australia and New Zealand. This position is responsible for developing and consolidating the LIME Network, creating a website, as well as building in mechanisms for its sustainability.
Laura is a Gunditjmara woman and has grown up as part of the Victorian Koori Community, she also has two children. Laura has a BA in Education (secondary)and Arts and is in her final stages of a Masters of Public Health. Prior to joining the Centre, Laura worked as a Project Officer at VACCHO in Maternity Services and in the Education & Training Unit .
Kate Butler
Events and Communications Coordinator
LIME Connection III
kebutler@unimelb.edu.au [4]
Background
Kate Butler is the Events & Communications Coordinator for ONEMDA. Kate is responsible for coordinating the planning and implementation of key events and communication tasks with the LIME Network, Centre of Excellence in Indigenous Tobacco Control (CEITC) and the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health (CRCAH).
Kate is from Perth, her father from the ‘Jarwoyn’ tribe In Katherine, NT. Kate has organised the successful book launch of Brian McCoy’s ‘Kanyirninpa and the health of Aboriginal men’, a traditional luncheon for NAIDOC Week 2008 and is currently involved with the planning of many other important events. Kate has a Bachelor of Health Science degree (majoring in Health Promotion) and has worked previously in the areas of mining and Aboriginal maternal and health research, doing event management and communications. Kate enjoys writing, travelling and hopes to go mountain trekking one day.