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Applying Anthropology to Something

  • The Albion Hotel, 535 Stirling Hwy, Cottesloe WA (map)

Join us for an engaging seminar as Adjunct Professor Dennis Gray shares insights from his distinguished and diverse career in applied anthropology, tackling significant health challenges and complex life stages in some of the world's most remote locations.

Dennis Gray has dedicated nearly 50 years to applied anthropology. His focus has predominantly centered on enhancing people's health and well-being. Within this expansive scope, his endeavors have included various initiatives such as ethnographic fieldwork on the former Carnarvon Aboriginal Reserve, investigating treatment strategies for arthritis sufferers, researching the costs of care for terminal cancer patients, training doctors from South-East Asia to tackle local health issues, and studying ways to mitigate alcohol and other drug (AOD) related harm among Aboriginal Australians.

Don't miss the chance to learn from Dennis’s nearly five decades in the field as he reflects on his wonderfully varied work and its profound impacts on the communities he has supported, contemplating the mutual process of learning he has experienced throughout this remarkable journey.

The Albion Hotel, 535 Stirling Hwy, Cottesloe WA

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