Associate Professor Jonathan Bullen is a Wardandi Noongar man from the south-west of WA. He is a Senior Lecturer at Curtin University, Aboriginal Health & Wellbeing Research Platform Lead in the Faculty of Health Sciences, and Chair of Curtin University’s Indigenous Leadership Group.
Associate Professor Bullen’s research on the development of non-Indigenous health professional’s capabilities to effectively work with Indigenous Australians in health contexts has been instrumental in furthering a national conversation and has led to a range of national speaking invitations and committee memberships. In the last three years, he has attracted over $19 million as an investigator on national ARC, NHRMC and MRFF projects focused on Indigenous health and wellbeing.
Associate Professor Bullen is co-lead of the Ecohealth Research Theme of the ARC Training Centre for Healing Country with Dr Alison Lullfitz.