Dr Jean Pepperill is a Kaytetye woman from Barrow Creek in Central Australia. She has completed all her medical training in the Northern Territory. She currently living in Garramila (Darwin), on Larrakia country, where she has been teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health in the Flinders University Northern Territory Medical Program. As a previous trainee with the Royal Australian New Zealand College of Psychiatry, she has a passion for mental health and wellbeing and is now pursuing general practice training with RACGP.
Dr Jean Pepperill is passionate about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and rural health with no plans to leave her home in the Northern Territory. Outside of clinical work, she serves on the Headspace First Nations Cultural Governance Committee and is the AIDA representative on the Gaaya Dhui board. She is also a Jilya Psychology Scholarship recipient for 2023 and studies a Graduate Diploma of Psychology at UTS. In her spare time Dr Jean Pepperill is a passionate photographer and painter.