Brett Biles

Associate Professor Brett Biles is living proof of the transformative power of education. With three degrees including a Charles Sturt PhD, the proud Murrawarri man is advancing First Nations health and wellbeing through research and academic leadership.

Brett’s academic career began in 2011 at Charles Sturt as Lecturer in Indigenous Health and Associate Head of School, Indigenous Studies. He transitioned to UNSW in 2019 as inaugural Director of Indigenous Health Education and then Associate Dean Indigenous at UNSW Medicine and Health and Senior Scientia Lecturer. He is a 2024 Fellow in the University of Melbourne’s Poche Indigenous Health Leadership Program.

Brett was appointed UNSW's inaugural Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Engagement and Research in February 2024. Through this pivotal leadership role, he is developing the University’s Indigenous Research Plan and working to improve engagement with Indigenous staff and communities.

Brett has spent 15 years transforming Aboriginal health and wellbeing through research. Since 2020, he has generated over $3.5 million in grant funding as Chief Investigator on multiple Australian Research Council Medical Research Future Fund projects in the field of Aboriginal health.

He’s also a 2024 Fellow in the prestigious Poche Indigenous Health Leadership Program at the University of Melbourne.

“Charles Sturt provided me with the foundations to build an academic career which has afforded me the opportunity to serve my community through education and research,” he says.