Mary Murray

Dr Mary Murray has worked for over 40 years in Australia, in many low and middle income countries and global arenas to develop and implement equitable and effective National Medicines Policies (NMP). She chaired the inaugural Ministerial Advisory Committee to establish and implement Australia’s Quality Use of Medicines Policy.  Over 10 years, she assisted the Philippines, Vietnam, Samoa and other countries with NMP. Coordinated by the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, she and others wrote the stories of the cultural, political, technical and economic forces behind NMP development in 7 countries.  In 2004 she completed a PhD in Cultural Psychology, exploring the cultural roots of scapegoating, prevalent everywhere and certainly in long standing conflict over medicines.