Tany Brahmanand (she/her)

7-year-old Tany's yearbook read "I want to be a doctor or own a jewellery store". In 2024, she will graduate Doctor of Medicine, having run a small Australian jewellery business for over 6 years. A commitment to compostable packaging, reclaimable/repairable materials and fair-trade sourcing have long defined the brand, and nurtured her love for sustainable creative processes.

She is also a classically trained oil painter and multimedia artist, having exhibited in the National Gallery of Victoria and White Night Festival in New Zealand. Ultimately, art and business taught her to combine creativity and entrepreneurship, tempered by environmental consciousness - skills she's eager to translate into the medical field.

As she enters internship in 2025, Tany's focus shifts towards sustainable medicine and planetary health. Extensively involved in university societies including Doctors for the Environment, she's passionate about interrogating how junior doctors can drive meaningful action in the workplace. Her particular interest lies in SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production.

Through the Wattle Fellowship, Tany hopes to use an interdisciplinary, medical humanities approach to investigate how storytelling can actualise change.