Dr Jeremy Hunt is a Resident Medical Officer at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and Co- Founder of The VacSeen Project, a registered charity providing free preventative healthcare (including vaccinations) for disadvantaged groups. He is a member of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Advisory Board and the Board of the Australian Youth Affairs Coalition, representing and elevating voices of young Australians at a national level. He has just commenced a Master’s at the University of Oxford as the 2024 Queensland Rhodes Scholar.
Dr Hunt has received numerous accolades, including: 2023 Queensland Young Australian of the Year Finalist; 2023 Harold Plant Memorial Prize; 2022 Brisbane Young Citizen of the Year and a further 12 UQ scholarships and awards.
He is an elite trail and mountain runner and represented Australia in the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in Austria in 2023. He received a UQ Half-Blue in 2022 and UQ Full Sporting Blue in 2023.
What’s a UQ memory that shaped who you are today?
“I was lucky enough to spend the 3rd year of medical school at the Toowoomba Rural Clinical School, where I had a wonderful time integrating into a new community and made lifelong friends.”
If you could snap your fingers and change one thing about the world, what would it be?
“So much health inequity exists in our world, not only between nations, but even between communities and individuals. I’m passionate about improving access to care and using technology to reduce this inequality, so if I could change one thing it would be to ensure people across the world could access the same high-quality, free healthcare regardless of who they are or where they live.”
