Tagged with Dinesh Palipana

Two Griffith alumni are helping to shape the future of disability policy and services with important advocacy roles at the Disability Royal Commission.

The winners of this year’s Outstanding Alumni Awards include Queensland’s first Chief Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Officer and the creator of hit TV series Bluey.

Griffith medicine graduate and Biospine Project co-lead Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM has added Senior Lecturer in the School of Medicine to his growing list of Griffith affiliations.

Griffith has played a key role in a campaign to secure mandatory minimum accessibility standards in the construction industry,to improve the lives of people living with a disability and seniors around Australia.

2021 Australia Day honours have been bestowed upon a number of Griffith University staff, associates and alumni. 

Griffith University student William Clarke and his brother Daniel have been nominated for the upcoming Young Australian of the Year awards for their conservation work. The pair launched a campaign to help protect critically endangered orangutan populations in Borneo and Sumatra. William and Daniel were named 2021 Queensland Young Australians of the Year late last year, […]

A Griffith Health trained Emergency doctor who is also the Project Co-lead on the University’s innovative Biospine project has been awarded 2021 Queensland Australian of the Year.