Award category spotlight: Rising Star in Rural/Remote Health Award

This week, Rural Doctors Network is shining a spotlight on one of the National Rural and Remote Health Awards’ categories for 2025: Rising Star in Rural/Remote Health Award.

The Rising Star in Rural/Remote Health Award recognises a student or early-career professional who has done exceptional work to improve health in rural and remote areas. The nominee should have implemented or contributed to innovative approaches to healthcare delivery, understand the social factors affecting rural/remote health, and be good at collaborating with others to improve health outcomes for rural/remote communities.

Mandatory criteria:

• Nominee must be an individual. 
• Demonstrate cultural responsiveness. 
• In areas designated between MM3-7 of the Modified Monash Model classification system.

All rural, remote and regional communities now have the opportunity to showcase this work and the #ruralpositive stories that can be found in rural and remote health by nominating today.

To learn more about the mandatory criteria and to nominate, click here.

Presentation of the Awards will take place on Ngunnawal country at the National Press Club of Australia, in Canberra, on Wednesday 5 November 2025.

Read more about the 2025 National Rural & Remote Health Awards.

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Read about previous winners here:

• Meet Rising Star in Rural/Remote Health Casey Shorter (2024)

• Shay-Lee Coulson awarded Rising Star award on national stage (2023)

_{Picture below: Previous award presentations in Canberra.}