Christine Phillips speaks about her early life and schooling; her medical studies; her experience on a African medical mission; working in Alice Springs on diabetes research; doctor-patient relationships in indigenous health; refugees in Darwin; psychiatric problems; her visit to East Timor (1990); moving to general practice in Canberra early 1990s; working at Gambia Research Institute, Sierra Leone, Uganda; moving to Companion House, Canberra 2001; funding arrangements, services provided; refugees early settlement priorities; Asylum seekers; ACT dental, mental, pharmaceutical services, health promotion; Sudanese problems; services for Bridging Visa holders and asylum seekers on Temporary Protection Visas; lack of medical information on people released from detention centres.
Phillips talks about refugees' use of mainstream GPs; problems with emergency department of hospitals and specialists; role of GPs; aged refugees in nursing homes; pharmaceutical services for refugees; Interpreting services for GPs and hospitals; Telephone Interpreter Service (TIS); her crusade; after hours services for refugees; The Kiani case; detention centres; ethnic community based support groups; negotiations with ACT government; psychiatric and medical services in detention centres; children and adolescents in detention; the impact of detention on family relationships; Einfield Inquiry, 2006; vulnerable groups in Canberra; medical education; community attitudes.
Christine Phillips was born 1963, London, the eldest of nine children, she attended St Joseph's College, Echuca, Victoria. She worked in a medical mission in Zambia, and later undertaking research into indigenous health in Alice Springs. She graduated in medical studes from the University of Melbourne in 1988. Since 1995 she worked as a general practitioner in Canberra. In 2001 she began working in the Medical Service associated with Companion House, Canberra's torture and trauma counselling and support service for refugees. She is also a Senior Lecturer, Social Foundations of Medicine, Academic Unit of General Practice and Community Health at the Australian National University.
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