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Dr Aryati Yashadhana is a Senior Research Associate at the School of Population Health, and a Visiting Fellow at the School of Social Sciences, ���������¼�. Her work focuses on socioeconomic, cultural and political determinants of health, intersectional health equity (gender, race, class), and international development. Her research has largely taken place in collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia (NSW and Northern Territory) with a focus on understanding how practicing culture and engaging in sensory experiences on Country improve health and wellbeing. Her collaborative work with Yuwaalaraay, Gamilaraay and Yuin knowledge holders has shaped the emerging discourse on Indigenous 'cultural health'. Dr. Yashadhana works from a place of understanding and respect for Aboriginal cultural protocols as foundational to research relationships. Internationally, she’s worked in in low and middle income settings (Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, South East Asia, Pacific) and been a lead investigator on various projects commissioned by the World Bank Group centred around access to child eye health services (Malawi, Colombia, Pakistan). Dr Yashadhana specialises in qualitative and participatory methodologies, with a particular interest in the application of critical realist and decolonizing theories, the way marginalised peoples and cultures interface with dominant systems and structures, and analyzing access to health systems and services.