/Hayden is proud Aboriginal man, North Queensland raised with connections to Kalkadoon / Jirrbal people. In 2017 Hayden started as a community liaison officer for Yulu-Burri-Ba, a community-controlled health service, where he completed his CERT IV Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker. By 2021, he spent 12months as an Aboriginal Health Worker in the cardiology ward at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane where he was a part of a team named ’Better Cardiac Care’. Hayden is a Project Research Officer at the Kirby Institute, UNSW with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Point of Care Testing for Respiratory Infection Program. This program is supporting 105 remote communities around Australia to provide immediate and local response to the pandemic
