Mark Ragg is a non-Indigenous man from Sydney who brings to bear experience from different but related fields.
An outsider understanding of systems comes from time watching systems both work and fail as a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald, among others.
An insider understanding of systems arises from time as a consultant to governments on policy, program design and evaluation, along with terms on the NSW Mental Health Tribunal and the Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network Human Research Ethics Committee.
An understanding of service delivery comes from time working as a doctor in various emergency departments around NSW, and briefly in East Timor.
These disparate strands of work all rely on doing more listening than talking, on understanding people as individuals, on analytical skills and on sensitivity to the situation.
Mark is Adjunct Fellow in Indigenous Health at UTS and the minority owner of Yulang.
