David de Vries Alice Springs, NT 0437674768 daviddevriesinalice@gmail.com Academic Qualifications B. Nat. Southern Cross University March, 2005 Ph.D. University of Melbourne July, 1985 B.Sc. (Hons) University of Queensland June, 1982 Employment History • Food Security Gardener and Consultant, Jun 14 – present. Providing practical, independent support for good food initiatives in Central Australia. Alice Springs Town Camps Sadadeen Primary School Yipirinya School Ingkintja, Congress Male Health • Senior Community Development Officer, Team Leader - Food Security, Australian Red Cross (Alice Springs, NT), Feb 13-Jun 14. Coordinating food security projects in Central Australia. • Festival Coordinator, Utopia Homelands Festival 2012, Urapuntja Aboriginal Corporation and Arlparra Aboriginal Corporation, Jul 12 - Nov 12. • Relieving CEO, Urapuntja Health Service Aboriginal Corporation, Jul-Oct 12. • Project Manager, Urapuntja Aboriginal Corporation (Utopia, NT) Mar 11 – June 12. Planning, negotiation, asset and operational management of projects including housing maintenance, carbon farming, food gardens and cultural festival. • Relieving CEO, Urapuntja Health Service Aboriginal Corporation, Nov-Dec 10. • Project Officer, Western Desert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation, (Alice Springs, NT) June 10-Aug10. Community consultation and development of Scoping Report for Lajamanu dialysis project. • Community Development Officer, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress (Alice Springs, NT) Apr 09-June 10. Developing new community health initiatives for Aboriginal males. • Project Officer, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress (Alice Springs, NT) Feb 09-Apr 09 Governance, financial and recruitment support to remote health services. • CEO, Ampilatwatja Health Centre Aboriginal Corporation (NT), Sep-Dec 08. • Consultant, Oct 2007- Aug 2008. Facilitating Indigenous health projects, governance training, land and business planning. • Director, Centre for Sustainable Arid Towns (Alice Springs, NT) May 2006- Sept 2007. An independent, sustainability and environmental health research and consulting enterprise conducting projects through central Australia. • Naturopath and Herbal Medicine Practitioner and Educator, Byron Bay, 2005-2006. Own business consulting with clients and providing a natural health service. • Research Fellow (0.5 Time), Gnibi-College of Indigenous Australian People, Southern Cross University, Lismore, 2004. • Senior Lecturer, Centre for Phytochemistry and Pharmacology, Southern Cross University, Lismore, 2003-04. • Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Southern Cross University, 1998-2002. Demonstrator and Tutor in Pathophysiology, School of Nursing, Southern Cross University, 1998-2000. • Permaculture Educator and Designer, 1997-2000, Northern NSW. Teaching Permaculture Design Certificate courses and consultations through own business 'Permaculture Works' • Senior Lecturer, Department of Pharmacology, Medical School, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ, 1995-1997. • Senior Research Scientist, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, 1990-4. • Research Associate, Key Centre of Applied and Nutritional Toxicology, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 1989. • Fogarty International Center Fellow, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA, 1986-8. Awards Finalist, Desert Knowledge Research and Innovation Award (2008). “Working Towards Sustainability on Remote Indigenous Communities”. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution Traveling Fellowship (1994), USA. Australia-US Bilateral Research Traveling Fellowship (1993), National Cancer Institute, USA. Fogarty International Center Fellowship, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA, (1986-8). Teaching Lecture in Environmental Health to Aboriginal Health Worker, Cert IV, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, 2007. ‘Greywater in the Centre’, One Day Course, Centre for Sustainable Arid Towns, 2007. ‘Water Auditing on Remote Communities’ Two Day Course, Centre for Sustainable Arid Towns, 2007. Fifteen years experience in university adult education teaching. Professional Development Courses • Apply First Aid (2014). • Capacity Building in Indigenous Communities (ARDS) (2006). • Permaculture Design Certificate (1997). • Negotiation Skills (Australian Institute Management) (1994). • Intellectual Property Law (AMRAD Pharmaceuticals 1993, Spruson & Ferguson, 1993; IP Australia, 2003). • Time Management Skills (Aust Inst. Management) (1993). • PADI Open Water Diving Certificate (1990, 200 hours of scientific diving logged) • Radiation Safety Course (National Institutes of Health, USA) (1986). Research Grants and Contracts Written and/or Supervised Community Benefit Fund (NT) “Food gardens for Alice Springs Town Camps”, $4,650, 2014. NT EPA Environment Grant (with Tangentyere Council) “Community Gardens at Karnte”, $10,000, 2013 NRETAS (NT) “Utopia Homelands Festival” $20,000, 2012. Department of Business and Employment (NT) Indigenous Responsive Program “Training in superadobe earth building construction”, $18,000, 2012. EnvironmeNT Grant, “Construction and monitoring of a self-help, low cost, thermally comfortable, sustainable building at Utopia” $10,000, 2012 EnvironmeNT Grant, “Water efficient garden and greywater orchard at Rocket Range, Utopia” $9,800, 2012 DEHWA Indigenous Heritage Program “Develop a heritage plan for the land owned by Urrampinyi Iltjiltajarri Aboriginal Land Trust (formerly Tempe Downs)”, $37,500, 2010. Community Benefit Fund (NT) “Developing a comprehensive health care framework for Aboriginal males - Providing metal work and vehicle repair opportunities to Aboriginal males within a health focused shed” $20,000, 2009. FaHCSIA “Addressing violence and conflict resolution: Training for senior Aboriginal men” $80,000, 2009. FaHCSIA “Cultural broker training for Aboriginal males” $80,000, 2009. Fixing Houses for Better Health (FaHCSIA funding), “Solar Hot Water Performance on Alice Springs Town Camps” $36,000, 2006. Anmatjere Community Government Council “Cooling Tunnels for Indigenous Housing” $5,000, 2007. Indigenous Essential Services, Department of Planning and Infrastructure, NTG and Desert Knowledge CRC “Thermal performance and energy assessments of houses at Areyonga (Utju), ” $82,000, 2006-7. Alpurrurulam Community Government Council (Australian Water Grants and Territory Housing, NTG, funding), “Greywater Installation on Indigenous Housing”. $46,000, 2007. Tanami Group Schools (Community Water Grant funding), “Rainwater and Greywater Systems at Laramba School” $50,000 grant ($5,000 for project management), 2007. Desert Knowledge CRC “Specifications for a Sustainability Demonstration House” $5,400, 2007 Desert Knowledge CRC “Telemetry Systems for Remote Water Monitoring Control Equipment” $3,000, 2006. Desert Knowledge CRC “Groundwater salinity, desalination equipment and practices applicable to the rangelands pastoral industry” $3,000, 2006. Land & Water Australia Community Fellowship Grant, to Aboriginal Cultural Development Foundation “Understanding Australia’s Sacred Landscape” $7,450, 2004. CRC-Sugar Industry Innovation through Biotechnology "Bioactive Molecular Discovery of Medicinal Natural Products from Sugarcane". $755,800, 2004. CRC-Innovative Grain Foods. “Phytochemical and pharmacological studies of secondary metabolites across a range of grains and pulses” $521,000, 2004. New Zealand Neurological Foundation, “Characterising the receptor for domoic acid” $4,775, 1996. University of Otago Research Grant, “Natural products active at excitatory amino acid neurotransmitter receptors” $10,000, 1996. Otago Medical Research Foundation, “Excitotoxins in food” $8,000, 1996. AMRAD Pharmaceuticals, (Negotiator) “Marine Drug Discovery at Australian Institute of Marine Science” A$ 4,600,000, 1994. Recent Presentations de Vries, D.J. and Johnson, V. Garden to Plate: A community development approach to facilitating Aboriginal householders growing, harvesting and preparing food in Central Australia. 22nd National Australian Health Promotion Association Conference & 18th Chronic Diseases Network Conference, Alice Springs, 2014. de Vries, D.J. Keynote speaker. ‘What is the history of remote food gardens in northern Australia?’ Remote Community Gardens Workshop (DPIFM), Alice Spring, 2007. de Vries, D. J. Solar hot water systems in remote Australia, Australia and New Zealand Solar Energy Society, Alice Springs, 2007. de Vries, D.J. Creating and Sustaining a Small Consultancy Business in Central Australia, Desert Knowledge Symposium, Alice Springs, 2006. Hoyal, S. and de Vries, D.J. Sustainable Energy & Water Management in Desert Aboriginal Communities, Desert Knowledge Symposium, Alice Springs, 2006. Hoyal, S. and de Vries, D.J. Solar Hot Water Monitoring on Tangentyere Town Camps, Fixing Houses for Better Health/RAIA meeting on Hot Water Systems in Indigenous Houses, Perth, 2006. Publications de Vries, D.J. And Sweet, M. Scoping Study for Lajamanu Dialysis Project, Invisible Disease – Silent Voices (2010). westerndesertdialysis.com de Vries, D.J. Groundwater salinity, desalination equipment and practices applicable to the rangelands pastoral industry. Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre (2006). desertknowledgecrc.com.au/Watersmart Salinity.pdf de Vries, D.J. Telemetry systems for remote water monitoring control equipment. Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre (2006). desertknowledgecrc/WaterSmart-Telemetry.pdf Sweet M and de Vries, D.J. Birth rituals, wellbeing and transformation. International Journal of Healing & Caring – Online 6(2) (2006). wholistichealingresearch.com Crawford, N., Lang, T.K., Kerr, D.S. and de Vries D.J. High affinity [3H]-kainic acid binding to brain membranes: a re-evaluation of ligand potency and selectivity. Journal of Pharmacological & Toxicological Methods 42:121-125 (2000). Willis, R. H. and de Vries, D. J. BRS1, a C30 bis amino, bis-hydroxy polyunsaturated lipid from an Australian calcareous sponge that inhibits protein kinase C. Toxicon 35: 1125-1129 (1997). de Vries, D.J., Sundar Rao, K. and Willis, R.H. Application of a radioreceptor assay to the screening and characterisation of compounds from marine organisms with activity at the phorbol ester binding site of protein kinase C. Toxicon 35: 347-354 (1997). de Vries, D.J. and Beart, P.M. Drugs from the Sea: Prospects and Strategies. Trends in Pharmacological Science 16: 275-279 (1995). 13 other refereed