Odette Best is a Wakgun clan member of the Gurreng Gurreng Nation and holds a Boonthamurra bloodline with adoption ties to the Koomumberri, Yugambeh people. She commenced her training at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in the late 1980s, and holds a Bachelor of Health Sciences (double major in Aboriginal Health and Community Development), a Master of Philosophy and a Ph.D. Odette has worked for 35 years in Indigenous health. Clinically, she worked for a decade, as sexual health coordinator at the Brisbane Aboriginal and Islander Community Health Service and within the women's and youth prison systems across Brisbane. In 2000, she moved into discipline teaching within nursing in the tertiary sector. Odette's leadership in Indigenous health and Indigenous nursing research is acknowledged globally, and she is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, a Fellow of the Australian College of Nursing, a Churchill Fellow and a Fellow of the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives. As an historian of Aboriginal nurses and midwives, Odette is passionate about uncovering and documenting the experiences of Aboriginal nurses and midwives and saving them from historical oblivion. Odette is Ivy Molly Booth's granddaughter. Bronwyn Fredericks is an Indigenous woman from South-East Queensland with over 35 years' experience working in and with the tertiary sector, state and federal Governments, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-based organisations. She is a Professor and the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement) at The University of Queensland, and still maintains an active research program. Professor Fredericks is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia, and the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences, along with being a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts. In 2016, Bronwyn was appointed as the Commissioner with the Queensland Productivity Commission (QPC) (one of only two appointments) to lead the Inquiry into Service Delivery in Queensland's Remote and Discrete Indigenous Communities. In 2018, she was again appointed to work on Queensland's Inquiry into Imprisonment and Recidivism, which was completed in 2019. She is currently a member of the ARC Advisory Committee, Co-Chair of the ARC Indigenous Forum, Deputy Chair of the National School Resourcing Board (NSRB), and a Director of the Queensland Council.

• 1. A history of health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Ray Lovett and Makayla-May Brinckley; 2. The cultural safety journey: an Aboriginal Australian nursing and midwifery context Odette Best; 3. Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing Ali Drummond and Francis Nona; 4. Indigenous gendered health perspectives Odette Best, Bronwyn Fredericks and Mick Adams; 5. Community controlled health services: what they are and how they work Odette Best, Bronwyn Fredericks and Renee Blackman; 6. Midwifery practices and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women: urban and regional perspectives Machellee Kosiak; 7. Remote area nursing practice Beck Thompson; 8. Custodial care settings and culturally safe practice Odette Best, Josephine Burton, Lorelle Holland and Lynore Geia; 9. Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers and health practitioners Ali Drummond; 10. Indigenous-led qualitative research Odette Best and Mel Robinson; 11. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander quantitative research Ray Lovett, Makayla-May Brinckley and Roxanne Jones; 12. Long-term health conditions in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities Tamara Power and Beck Thompson; 13. Navigating First Nations social and emotional wellbeing in mainstream mental health services Rhonda L. Wilson and Kristin Waqanaviti; 14. Nursing for climate change and Indigenous health Odette Best, Francis Nona and Hylda Poipoi (Wapau); 15. Indigenous child health Donna Hartz and Dan McAullay; 16. Caring for our Elders and older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people Linda Deravin, Hayley Mongta and Stacey Butcher.

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