THE successful recipients of the 2024 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Pharmacist Scholarship were announced yesterday by the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, supported by a grant from Sanofi Australia.
The winners are Isaac Burgoyne, Matthew Cloake, James Sowter, Shi-Anne Wallace, and Dean Webber.
The body said from over 35,000 Australian pharmacists, only 100 identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, representing less than 0.3% of the pharmacist workforce.
This makes the scholarship a step in the right direction to increasing the number of First Nations people graduating from pharmacy studies and entering the workforce.
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