Navin is Senior Lecturer and former Director of Academic Program: Paramedicine at Western Sydney University. He has 31 years of experience including Paramedicine practice, education, regulation and research, mostly in South Africa and Australia where he holds dual professional registration. He holds an Adjunct Professorship at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Emergency Medical Sciences in Cape Town, South Africa. Navin served as co-chair of the Belgium Red Cross First Aid for First Responders Evidence-based Medicine project. This developed teaching and practice guidelines for African Red Cross organisations in member countries in sub-Saharan Africa. He was Chair of the Working Group on Violence, Abuse and Neglect at the Australasian College of Paramedicine, and deputy chair of the Australasian Council of Paramedicine Deans. Navin’s research interest includes critical theory, transformative pedagogy, gender-based violence prevention and evidence-informed decision making that intersects vulnerability reduction and health security across the lifespan. He is certified as a Commercial and Court-Aligned Mediator (for alternate dispute resolution) and supervises higher degree research in the fields of Paramedicine, social inclusivity, health professions education, public health, and emergency and forensic medicine. Navin is an Associate Editor for ‘Paramedicine’. More recently, he is the project lead on a Pipeline Research Infrastructure grant that addresses capacity building to redress unmet health needs among at risk communities.