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Kelly Williams

Kelly Williams was Manager of Policy and Advocacy at Cancer Council NSW.

Kelly and her team work to improve the way governments deal with cancer, including policy and legislation changes in tobacco control, cancer care for Aboriginal people, and access to cancer treatment and support for all cancer patients and their families across NSW. The team leads a grassroots network of over 18,000 advocates across NSW who help Cancer Council drive important policy changes.

Kelly has worked in supportive care for cancer patients, health promotion, tobacco control and grassroots campaign. Kelly is interested in social justice and advocacy and enjoys supporting individuals to play an active role in the decisions that will impact on them.

Recent articles by Kelly Williams

Access to palliative care for people with life-limiting cancer

Kerry Moss and her daughter Stephanie Ewing Life is full of inequities based on our postcodes but when it comes to specialist palliative care, nobody should miss out. The reality is, some people are denied life-enriching palliative care when it’s needed most because of a shortage of specialist palliative care across the state. The latest […]

For Aboriginal man Fred Binge a cancer diagnosis and mention of palliative care was a shock

Photo: Fred Binge and daughter Teena A cancer diagnosis and any mention of palliative care is troubling, but for Teena’s dad, Aboriginal community leader Frederick (Fred) Binge, extra hurdles that need not have been there, lay on his path.  When Fred was told by a doctor in 2013 that his liver cancer was terminal, while […]

Urgent need for more Aboriginal cancer care staff

This National Reconciliation Week, Cancer Council NSW are urgently calling on the NSW Government to increase the Aboriginal workforce in cancer services across the state. We know that the update of the NSW Government’s ‘Good Health – Great Jobs’ NSW Health Aboriginal Workforce Strategic Framework 2011-2015 will be finalised in the first half of this […]