Professor Alex Brown in conversation with Professor Jason Kovacic

At the 2024 Sohn Hearts & Minds Conference, we heard from Professor Alex Brown in conversation with Professor Jason Kovacic about Indigenous heart health and genomics.

Professor Alex Brown in conversation with Professor Jason Kovacic

November 15, 2024
At the 2024 Sohn Hearts & Minds Conference, we heard from Professor Alex Brown in conversation with Professor Jason Kovacic about Indigenous heart health and genomics.
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Professor Alex Brown is the Professor of Indigenous Genomics at The Kids Research Institute Australia and The Australian National University. He is an internationally leading Aboriginal clinician/researcher (Yuin Nation) who has worked his entire career in Aboriginal health in the provision of public health services, infectious diseases and chronic disease care, health care policy and research. He has established three highly regarded research groups over the last 15 years and has built a career spanning public health, quantitative clinical epidemiology, mixed-method health service research, qualitative research, and implementation science, with an increasing focus on novel clinical trials in cardiometabolic disease within Indigenous communities.  


Professor Jason Kovacic is the Director and CEO of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Chair and Professor of Medicine at UNSW Sydney, and Adjunct Professor at The University of Western Australia.

Watch their conversation from the 2024 Sohn Hearts & Minds Conference below.

Professor Alex Brown is the Professor of Indigenous Genomics at The Kids Research Institute Australia and The Australian National University. He is an internationally leading Aboriginal clinician/researcher (Yuin Nation) who has worked his entire career in Aboriginal health in the provision of public health services, infectious diseases and chronic disease care, health care policy and research. He has established three highly regarded research groups over the last 15 years and has built a career spanning public health, quantitative clinical epidemiology, mixed-method health service research, qualitative research, and implementation science, with an increasing focus on novel clinical trials in cardiometabolic disease within Indigenous communities.  


Professor Jason Kovacic is the Director and CEO of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Chair and Professor of Medicine at UNSW Sydney, and Adjunct Professor at The University of Western Australia.

Watch their conversation from the 2024 Sohn Hearts & Minds Conference below.

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