CBM Staff Profiles
Fareen Walji - Research Officer
Fareen Walji's research interests and practice focus on gender, disability, and the interplay between multiple forms of marginalisation. Prior experience includes working with Aboriginal street youth, HIV positive women, human rights research in India, and management of advocacy and human rights of people with disabilities projects with Handicap International in Indonesia She holds a B.A. in Political Science, an M.A. in Development Studies and a Masters in Women's Health.Beth Fuller
Beth Fuller is a Senior Adviser in Disability at the Nossal Institute for Global Health and the Partnership Coordinator of the CBM Australia – Nossal Institute Partnership in Disability and Development. Beth established the Disability program at Nossal and developed the subject "Disability in Developing Countries" for the Masters in Public Health. She is a founding member of the Australian Disability and Development Consortium (ADDC) and co-authored ADDC's Research and Education Strategy Paper. She arranges and coordinates the Nossal Disability Special Interest Group which has over 150 members, composed mainly of disability, health and development practitioners and persons with disabilities. She worked as the head of Occupational Therapy services at the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed in Bangladesh and wrote the B.Sc (OT) degree curriculum for the Bangladesh Health Professions Institute.
Sally Baker
Sally Baker is Senior Technical Advisor – Disability at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, and Coordinator of the CBM-Nossal Institute Partnership for Disability-Inclusive Development. An Occupational Therapist with a Masters in International Community Development, she has been working with people with disabilities for over fifteen years, both in Australia and internationally, predominantly in the Pacific and Asia. From 1999 to 2001, Sally worked in Samoa on a disability accessibility and awareness project, and supported the establishment of Samoa’s first Disabled Persons Organisation (DPO), Nuanua O le Alofa. She later worked in the Solomon Islands, where she assisted the strengthening of the Solomon Islands Community Based Rehabilitation program and contributed to the development and implementation of on a national disability survey. In Asia, working with the NGO Handicap International, Sally facilitated and led a regional team of professionals to develop, support monitor and evaluate national programs which aim to enhance the quality of life of people with disabilities in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Currently based in Melbourne, Sally is conducting research with teams in Bangladesh and Fiji to validate a toolkit to measure the effectiveness of disability-inclusive development programs. She is a board member of Australia Pacific Islands Disability Support (APIDS), an NGO which supports the development of Disabled Persons Organisations in the Pacific.