Colette McGrath is the 2025 Cheryl Burman Award recipient. An incredible health professional who has delivered clinical excellence throughout her career via numerous and various initiatives and services in NSW Local Health Districts and Justice Health NSW. Colette was awarded for her lifetime work delivering health services to marginalised people and her leadership role in eliminating hepatitis C within NSW prisons.

Colette has worked in the nursing, drug and alcohol, harm minimisation, BBV/HIV & STI sector most of her working life, commencing in the 1980s in a community drug team in North London. Of those times Colette said, “It was early days in the HIV epidemic, news was scanty, myths and fear were everywhere, and stigma and discrimination was rife”. She says “I was horrified how some staff treated people who were gay, haemophiliac and those who injected drugs. Hepatitis C, or as we knew it then Non-A/Non-B, was around but we were oblivious to how it was transmitted then.” >>>READ MORE

Find out more about The Cheryl Burman Award:  https://www.hep.org.au/get-involved/cheryl-burman-award/

See a list of past Award Winners:  https://www.hep.org.au/blog/cheryl-burman-award-winners-since-2013/