Dr. Simon Quilty
Simon is a general physician who has worked in remote NT since 2001, commenced specialist services in Katherine Hospital in 2012, and has been working in Alice Springs Hospital since 2020 as senior staff specialist. With a background in engineering and public health before commencing his medical career, he has unique perspectives on determinants of poor health outcomes in the communities he has worked in across northern Australia. He works with communities to conduct action research that identifies solutions to areas of inequity and broader threats, and his work is now focused entirely on understanding and mitigating the impact of heat and climate change in the tropical north of Australia.