Dr John Hunter is an Indigenous Academic within the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences at Macquarie University. His home community is based in Greater Western Sydney, being the largest inter-tribal, urban Aboriginal community in Australia. 

His family and community kinship connections are with the Gamilaraay and Wiradjuri First Nations of NSW. His work focuses on community based solutions that facilitate self-directed, sovereign change as a means to address the marginalisation and disadvantage affecting Aboriginal communities.

From a methodological position, he uses Indigenous research approaches that support and develop community capacity and cultural restoration through the framework of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.