Professor Chelsea Watego (formerly Bond) is a Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman with over 25 years of experience working within Indigenous health as a health worker and scholar. She is the Executive Director of QUT’s Carumba Institute and a Commissioner on The O’Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination and Global Health. Her scholarship has drawn attention to the role of race in the production of health inequalities and her current ARC Discovery Grant seeks to build an Indigenist Health Humanities as a new field of research; one that is committed to the survival of Indigenous peoples locally and globally, and foregrounds Indigenous intellectual sovereignty. Professor Watego is a prolific writer and public intellectual, having written for IndigenousX, NITV, The Guardian, and The Conversation while also co-hosting a weekly radio show Let’s Talk Black Knowing on Triple A Murri Radio. Her debut book Another Day in the Colony, published by UQP in 2021 was met with critical acclaim. Professor Watego is also a founding board member of Inala Wangarra, an Indigenous community development association within her community, and a founding Director of the Institute for Collaborative Race Research which undertakes intellectual work that informs, arms, ignites, validates and celebrates anti-racist actions. But most importantly, she is a proud mum to five beautiful children.
Professor Chelsea Watego
