Sara Yousif
Sara Yousif
Sara Yousif has been a member of the Mater Refugee Health Advisory Group (known as the ‘G11’) for 6 years. Originally from Iraq, she also spent six years in Syria prior to arriving in Australia and has many connections with the Arabic speaking communities in Brisbane. She worked as a Case Manager assistant and arrival Coordinator at Multicultural Australia for 6 years where she met many new arrivals through the Humanitarian Support Program, at Brisbane airport (often at 1am & 4am !). She now works as a Mental Health as NDIS Support coordinator with the Richmond Fellowship Queensland.
During the COVID 19 pandemic she was instrumental in working closely with the CALD COVID Health Engagement Project and Queensland Health to record audio messages in Arabic to share critical information about changing public health directions with community leaders and social media community channels. She is a passionate advocate for health, especially mental health and women’s health and has co-ordinated, co presented and engaged community members to participate in health workshops in partnership with Mater Refugee Health, Qld Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma (QPASTT), TRUE Relationships and Reproductive Health and TAFE Qld.