Dr Mardi Steere1,2,3
1University Of Nairobi, 2AMREF Flying Doctors, 3Royal Flying Doctor Service, SA/NT
Biography:
Mardi has lived and worked in the US, Kenya & Australia as a paediatric emergency & retrieval doctor, educator, health executive and non-executive director. She passionate about strategic development of accessible, cost-effective, high-quality primary, prehospital, emergency & hospital care and workforce, especially for remote & underserved populations.
Strengthening fragile systems is one of her core drivers. After working as a specialist doctor in the US and Australia, she moved with her family to Kenya from 2011-2019 as a humanitarian worker in a tertiary mission hospital, with a focus on multidisciplinary capacity building. There she served in several roles, including two terms as Kijabe Hospital’s Director of Clinical Services, and co-developer of sub-Saharan Africa’s first postgraduate Fellowship program in Paediatric Emergency & Critical Care (PECC Kenya) with the University of Nairobi and University of Washington.
Since obtaining an MBA from Melbourne Business School in 2018, her focus has been improving the health of rural & remote Australians through her executive role at RFDS. There she leads evidence-based, collaborative & innovative solutions to both emergency and comprehensive primary health care for remote communities across SA/NT, with a focus on utilising emerging technologies in pioneering service delivery models.
She is committed to disseminating best practice via academic research, publication and collaboration, and has faculty appointments at University of Nairobi, University of Florida and Charles Darwin University, where she assisted in the development and launch of the postgraduate Aeromedical Retrieval Graduate Diploma and Masters programs in 2021. She is a graduate of the AICD, and in 2023 she joined the board of AMREF Flying Doctors, Kenya as a non-Executive Director.
She maintains her clinical connection as a PEM specialist at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide and through regular teaching at recurring PECC program intensives in Kenya. In her free time, she can be found creating alternate timelines in the writer’s room and on set as a television drama medical advisor, as well as thinking out loud through articles on LinkedIn and advocating for equitable healthcare on X at @PECCAfrica.
Abstract:
Please see this link to the content of a talk I was invited to give at the Alfred Global Emergency Care Conference in 2023. This talk would be substantively the same, with some updates as well as more specific reference to my paediatric critical care transport work at University of Nairobi & board role at AMREF Flying Doctors, Kenya.