Faye McMillan

Faye Beverley McMillan is an Australian academic and pharmacist known for her work on improving Indigenous healthcare. In 2023 she was awarded the Australian Harkness Fellowship in Health Care Policy and Practice. She is a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity, as well as being a Senior Fellow with Advance HE. She is a founding member of Indigenous Allied Health Australia and was a board member of IAHA from 2009-2017. She joined UTS in 2022 with over 20 years of experience in the Higher Education Sector and over 30 years in the health sector.

Early life, education, and qualifications

McMillan is Wiradjuri and was born in Bowral, New South Wales. She grew up in Trangie, New South Wales. She graduated from Charles Sturt University with a Bachelor of Pharmacy in 2001, and completed her pre-registration year at Wagga Wagga.

2022 Master of Social Change and Leadership – University of Melbourne
2020 Diploma of Counselling
2020 Cert IV Training and Assessment
2019 Senior Fellow, Advance Higher Education
2018 Graduate Certificate in Education – University of Melbourne
2016 Doctor of Health Science – Exegesis: Shared meanings of leadership through accounts of the experiences of Indigenous/First Nations women leaders" Charles Sturt University
2016 Graduate Certificate in Wiradjuri Language, Culture and Heritage – Charles Sturt University
2014 Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Governance – University of Arizona
2013 Cert I and II – Wiradjuri Language
2006 Master of Indigenous Health Studies – University of Wollongong
2001 Bachelor of Pharmacy – Charles Sturt University.

Fellowships
Harkness Fellow: The Commonwealth Fund
Lifelong Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity
Senior Fellow of Advance HE
Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia

Career

McMillan is known for having been Australia's first registered Aboriginal pharmacist. She has worked on the Tiwi Islands and in Vancouver, Canada. She is an Atlantic Fellow, focusing her work on supporting mental health, and a founding member and former chairperson of Indigenous Allied Health Australia.
McMillan works at University Technology Sydney and works between Sydney and Wagga Wagga – Professor of Indigenous Health previous to this role McMillan worked at the University of New South Wales and prior to that as Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health at Charles Sturt University.
McMillan is currently one of two Deputy National Rural Health Commissioners within the Office of the National Rural Health Commissioner.
In 2019, McMillan was appointed director of The Australian Pharmacy Council board. In 2022 APC launched The Leaders in Indigenous Pharmacy Profession Education Network.

Awards

McMillan was named in the Westpac and Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence Awards in 2014.
She was named 2019 New South Wales Aboriginal Woman of the Year.
In the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours, McMillan was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for "significant service to Indigenous mental health, and to tertiary education".
In 2022 McMillan was named as the Pharmacist of the Year at PSA’s Excellence Awards, presented at PSA22
In 2023 McMillan was made a Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
In 2023 McMillan was awarded the 2023 Alumni Award for Professional Excellence from the University of Wollongong

Selected publications

F McMillan, D Kampers, V Traynor, J Dewing; Person-centred care as caring for country: An indigenous Australia Experience; Dementia, 9 ,' : 163-167.
C. Schultz, R. Walker, D. Bessarab, F. McMillan, J. MacLeod, R. Marriott Chapter 13: Interdisciplinary Care to Enhance Mental Health and Social Emotional Wellbeing.
Y. Akama, D. Evans, S. Keen, F. McMillan, M McMillan, P. West; Designing digital and creative scaffolds to strengthen Indigenous nations: being Wiradjuri by practising sovereignty; Digital Creativity, 28 ,' : 58-72. Doi:
M. McMillan, F. McMillan, S. Rigney; Is indigenous National Building capable of strengthening and improving Indigenous holistic health outcomes: Retelling the right to health 10, : 147-159.