Kate Armstrong (B Med, DCH, MPH, FAFPHM, DrPH) is a Public Health Physician and non-Indigenous ally, working as a Medical Advisor with NACCHO (the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation) in Australia. With a background in clinical and public health medicine, Kate has special interests in Aboriginal and Child Health, as well as Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and the importance of an inclusive, rights-based, community development and life-course approach to the prevention and management of NCDs in resource poor settings. Kate’s DrPH (through Flinders University) focused on a Health Needs Assessment to better understand the challenges and burdens facing children and families living with Nephrotic Syndrome in Vietnam.
Kate lives on the lands of the Wallemedegal peoples of the Eora Nation, in Sydney Australia. Kate works in a voluntary capacity as the Founder & President of CLAN (Caring & Living As Neighbours – www.clanchildhealth.org), an NGO committed to equity for children living with chronic health conditions in resource poor settings. CLAN is formally associated with the United Nations Department of Global Communications (formerly UNDPI/NGO); in Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC; a participant in the WHO’s Global Coordinating Mechanism (GCM) and Communities of Practices (CoP) on NCDs; a member of the WHO CSO; and the founding Secretariat of NCD Child and IndigenousNCDs.
Kate lives on the lands of the Wallemedegal peoples of the Eora Nation, in Sydney Australia. Kate works in a voluntary capacity as the Founder & President of CLAN (Caring & Living As Neighbours – www.clanchildhealth.org), an NGO committed to equity for children living with chronic health conditions in resource poor settings. CLAN is formally associated with the United Nations Department of Global Communications (formerly UNDPI/NGO); in Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC; a participant in the WHO’s Global Coordinating Mechanism (GCM) and Communities of Practices (CoP) on NCDs; a member of the WHO CSO; and the founding Secretariat of NCD Child and IndigenousNCDs.