About Brett
Brett Shannon is an Occupational and Environmental Registrar (Royal Australasian College of Physicians), receiving his Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Queensland. He also completed a Master of Applied Epidemiology at the Australian National University and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors course. He is a proud Ngugi/Quandamooka descendant and in 2020 completed his term as Chairperson of the Brisbane Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Service. With his John Monash Scholarship, Brett is undertaking e a PhD at the University of Illinois – Chicago, on the topic of occupational injuries. In 2022 his research on Indigenous occupational health will be published in the British Medical Journal and he has been invited to share his findings at the International Congress of Occupational Health, Australian and New Zealand Society of Occupational Medicine and World Injury Prevention conferences
