SAHMRI's Professor Maria Makrides one of SA's most influential women
08 Mar 2014
SAHMRI's Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children Theme Leader, Professor Maria Makrides, has been named one of South Australia's most influential women, according to The Advertiser on Saturday, 8 March 2014.
Professor Makrides is also the director of the Women’s and Children’s Health Research Institute. Her passion lies in developing nutrition strategies – particularly among socially disadvantaged families – to minimise preventable deaths in women and children.
SAHMRI is located on Kaurna Country. We pay respects to the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We are committed to embracing knowledge and culture as we continue our working journey to incorporate Aboriginal health research across all of our themes and further reconciliation.
Read more"Tirki nguta tappa tangka marninithi"
(Learning and knowledge are the pathway to alter the mind)
- Uncle Lewis Yerloburka O’Brien, Kaurna Elder
