Julia Messner – SEWB Suicide Prevention Networks and Advocacy Coordinator
Social and Emotional Wellbeing
P: 08 8944 6679 | E: julia.messner@amsant.org.au
Julia is a social scientist who has worked across a wide range of health, child services, humanitarian, and community development settings in the NT, Queensland, NSW, and internationally. Early in her career she worked for Charles Darwin University in the School of Australian Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and with the former Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH) in Darwin. Julia has since held a range of policy, project, and program management roles in the public sector, with a focus on the social determinants of health. She has worked with First Nations communities in Canada, including as a Health Policy Analyst at the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres. She also spent three years working for the United Nations in Myanmar, designing and implementing a participatory action initiative for local community organisations – ‘Collective Voices: Understanding Community Health Experiences’.
Julia comes to us most recently from the World Health Organization, where she was working on the global monkeypox emergency response. In her role with AMSANT, she will focus on jurisdictional coordination and advocacy for suicide prevention and aftercare service networks across the Territory.