MsKris Vine

Kris Vine BSc/BA (USyd) MPH (UNSW) is a Research Fellow at the University Centre for Rural Health with a background in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care (PHC) service deliver and research. A non-Indigenous ally, Kris is currently working as the project manager for the Healing Country project, an Aboriginal-led project developing digital data-story maps and supporting communities design and implement local climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. She has worked across sectors in Indigenous primary health care and social justice, including with not-for-profits and Aboriginal community-controlled health organisations. She is a PhD candidate with the University of Sydney looking at community-led evaluation approaches to improve the overall health and wellbeing outcomes of Aboriginal communities and Country in response to local climate challenges.