Rebecca Heath
Modilon Hospital, Papua New Guinea
Biography
Rebecca Heath is a UK trained medic who has worked in the Manchester, Melbourne, the Nepali Himalayas and Ghana before her interest in rural and remote medicine and Aboriginal health found her at home in the Red Desert of Alice Springs for a couple of years before heading to Papua New Guinea in the Pacific to teach Emergency Medicine and work on capacity building programs in Madang. Keen to help find ways to develop practical and useful strategies to update practice in low income settings, as well as understand some of the complex challenges these contexts provide, she has focused on asthma, which is notoriously poorly managed in the Pacific.