Janine Mohamed

Janine Mohamed is a Narrunga Kaurna woman from Point Pearce in South Australia, and is currently CEO of Catsinam, the congress of Aboriginal and Torres-Strait Islander nurses and midwives. She has over 20 years experience in nursing, management, health workforce, health policy, and project management in the Aboriginal and Torres-Strait Islander health sector.

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Janine Mohamed

New calls for wider implementation of Birthing on Country

Birthing on country is a culturally safe experience for women and families and could reduce the number of babies being born too early and dying in their first months.

Janine Mohamed

#BecauseOfHerWeCan

CATSINAM CEO and Narrunga Kaurna woman, Janine Mohamed celebrates NAIDOC week and the extraordinary Aboriginal nurses that have worked to serve their people.

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Cultural safety matters – the conversation we need to keep having

I rang my dad over the weekend. We’d hardly begun yarning before he asked me: “What’s this about white nurses having to apologise to us for being white?” I could have just said, “Dad, you should know better than to believe what the mainstream media says about us.”