Monash University Department of Rural and Indigenous Health

Hilton Gruis

Senior Lecturer

Telephone: +61 3 5128 1002
Facsimile: +61 3 5128 1080
Email: Hilton.Gruis@med.monash.edu.au

Hilton has completed Bachelor Social Welfare and Bachelor of Psychology/Humas and Grad. Dip. Business (Human Service Management) and plans to undertake a Master of Biomedical Science in 2008. Hilton has previously been employed as the Gippsland Regional Social Emotional Wellbeing and Stolen Generations coordinator for Ramahyuck District Aboriginal Corporation and more recently, as the Latrobe Site coordinator responsible for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander services within the Central, West, South and South Eastern areas under the management of that same organisation.

Hilton is also a trained instructor of both Mental Health First Aid and Indigenous Mental Health First Aid and continues to provide education and training to members of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and support agency personnel throughout the Gippsland and Metropolitan areas.

His vast experience of a broad spectrum of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander support services and his extensive personal knowledge of the local communities and their representative bodies at local, state and national levels will provide a valuable contribution to the MUDRIH team in the role of Senior Lecturer.