Professor Sandra Eades (BMed, PhD) is the Associate Dean Indigenous at the University of Melbourne. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Professor Eades led the reform of funding of Indigenous health research in Australia and has a strong track record in Aboriginal child and adolescent health research. She has expertise in conducting randomised controlled trials in Aboriginal primary health care services, cohort studies, the analysis of routinely collected total population linked data and qualitative research methodologies. Professor Eades has won many awards and earned recognitions including the Lowitja Institute Inaugural Award for Leadership in Aboriginal health research (2015). In 2014 she was recognised as one of 100 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women living or deceased who have contributed positively to their communities in the Centenary of International Women’s Day.