Mario Faggion

Senior Educator and Training Facilitator

Qualifications:

Bachelor of Arts (Contemporary Indigenous Australia, Languages and Linguistics), Charles Darwin University

Location:

Darwin – Royal Darwin Hospital

Biography:

Mario is the Senior Educator and Training Facilitator within the Communicate Study Partnership. This collaborative program is focussed on improving health outcomes for First Nations patients by developing and delivering cultural safety and intercultural communication training for healthcare practitioners. Mario works alongside our First Nations co-facilitators turning research into genuine impact by sharing the evidence-based knowledge produced by our research team with healthcare practitioners. 

Mario comes to this role with extensive experience as a multilingual intercultural communicator. Through his connections with communities in North-East Arnhem Land, Mario has developed basic conversational ability in Anindilyakwa and the Yolŋu languages of Dhuwaya and Dhuwal. Mario grew up in the Top End, and prior to tertiary study worked in media production with the ABC and Anindilyakwa Land Council as well as working at Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka. More recently, Mario has been working with CDU’s Northern Institute and Yolŋu Studies department. 

Mario holds a degree in languages and linguistics and is passionate about the role of language and communication in all situations. The Communicate Study Partnership offers an opportunity to explore and develop a deeper conceptual framework for how intercultural communication skills can be taught and applied in a critically important setting.