GP059: World Indigenous Physiotherapy Alliance with Ray Gates

Today’s guest is Ray Gates, an Aboriginal Australian (Bundjalung) physiotherapist with over 20 years experience as a PT and with Indigenous health. He was the first Aboriginal PT to become a member and later Chairperson of the Australian Physiotherapy Association’s (then) Indigenous Health Committee. He was a founder of the first Indigenous Physiotherapy Support Network in Australia, which later became the National Association of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Physiotherapists (NAATSIP). He has been involved with Indigenous health both in Australia and around the world in a variety of roles. Ray is currently living in the United States where he continues to advocate for the physiotherapy profession to be a key stakeholder in addressing the disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health around the world.

Resources:

– How to contact Ray: rayg@raygatesphysicaltherapy.com

– Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA)

– National Association of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Physiotherapists, Inc. (NAATSIP)

– Close the Gap Initiative

– Tae Ora Tinana

– Why Indigenous health needs non-Indigenous allies

– Global Health Division of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association (CPA)

– US Indigenous Physical Therapy Network (IPTN)

– Canadian Conferences on Global Health (CCGH)

– Rachel Thibeault on ResearchGate

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