Jilpia Nappaljari Jones AM
Research Officer
Contact Details
GPO Box 553
AIATSIS
Canberra ACT 2601
Telephone: +61 2 6246 1167
Facsimile: +61 2 6249 7714
Jilpia Nappaljari Jones is a Walmadjari woman from the Kimberleys. She was a registered nurse on the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program (NTEHP) during the 1970s and 1980s, and later did ophthalmologic training at the prestigious Moorefield Eye Hospital in London. Jilpia has attained a BA at the Australian National University and she is currently a Research Officer in Aboriginal health at AIATSIS. The research project she is currently working on is a history of the NTEHP from an Aboriginal perspective.
Jilpia was awarded an Order of Australia for services to ophthalmology and birthing choices in 1995, and an Australian Centenary Medal in 2003.
Recent publications
Jones, J. 2006. Book Review of Black Chicks Talking. The Journal of Indigenous Policy. Issue 5. p130-131.
Jones, J. 2006. What do the Reconciliation and the Republic have in common? Are they linked? Paper presented to the Republic Gathering 1/4/2006.
Jones, J. 2005. Aboriginal Women's relationship to land, paper presented at the AIATSIS Native Title Conference, Coffs Harbour, NSW in July.
Jones, J. 2005. The Forcible Removal of Aboriginal Half-Caste Children Away from their Mothers, People and Land, lecture presented to the History Program, Australian National University.
Jones, J. 2005. The history of my nursing, in S. Gould and K. Liddle (eds): In Our Own Right; Black Australian Nurses Stories. Sydney: eContent Management.
Jones, J., L. Smith, and G. Briscoe, G. 2005. The National Trachoma and Eye Health Program History Project: An Aboriginal Perspective, Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, Vol. 29, No. 6, pp.11-12.
Jones, J. 2004. Working for the White People, Balayi: Culture, Law and Colonialism, Vol. 6, pp. 1-8.
Fitzpatrick, J. 1993. Birthing Choices in Rural Far North Queensland. (Report for Department of Health, Housing and Community Services). Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra.
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