Aminata Diop is a Torres Strait Islander woman with ties to the Meriam, Erubam, and Kulkalgal nations of the Torres Strait. Aminata is a Research Officer on the ARC Discovery Indigenous funded ‘Yarning with mob about HPV’ study in the Research School of Population Health.

Aminata completed a Bachelor of Social Science at the University of Queensland (UQ) and is currently completing a Master of Public Health. She has worked as a Research Assistant for the UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO), and the Darling Downs and West Moreton PHN. Aminata also has 9 years of experience in academic administration at UQ.

Research Interests:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing
• Health Information Systems
• Social determinants of health
• Global health policy
• Community Development