Luciana Massi is a PhD student through the Molly Wardaguga Research Centre, College of Nursing & Midwifery, Charles Darwin University under the supervision of Associate Professor Yvette Roe, Professor Sue Kildea and Dr Sophie Hickey. With her research, she hopes to contribute to identifying effective strengths-based programs to improve health, well-being and birthing outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers and babies. She has a background in Business Communication, and a Master of International Public Health from the University of Sydney (2009). Luciana is a researcher and teaching academic with over 12 years’ experience in public health, with a focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, qualitative research, health program management, post graduate teaching (health promotion and disease prevention) and workplace training. She has experience conducting qualitative research on various evaluation studies at the University of Queensland, University of Sydney and The George Institute for International Health. She has a strong interest in all aspects of public health and social justice, especially working with disadvantaged groups and advancing the needs and support of vulnerable women, children and families.