Dr Mikaela Seymour is a medical officer working in Papua New Guinea with extensive experience in Western Province. Her specific interests are rural health, health capacity building and health equality.

As a registrar for the Australian College of rural and remote medicine, and the Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, she has clinical experience in the Pacific and Asia and has advised health departments and NGOs spearheading the rollout of COVID19 vaccination programs, childhood EPI, acute and chronic care, maternity services family planning and WASH in remote areas.