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Home | News | Australian Doctors for Africa Welcomes New Board Member

We welcome Associate Professor Rochelle Spencer to the Board of Australian Doctors for Africa with great enthusiasm.

Rochelle brings a wealth of international development experience to the Board, and has a long relationship with Africa having first worked on the East Africa Desk of British Red Cross in the 1990s.

Rochelle is co-founder and principal fellow of the Indo-Pacific Research Centre and the Development Studies Association of Australia (DSAA), as well as co-director of Research for Development Impact Network, and Deputy Editor of Development in Practice.

Further information about our Board can be found on the ADFA website

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