The Explora Medicine Story
Explora Medicine’s story begins with a guy who clearly didn’t read the manual on avoiding disaster.
A character-building journey
Sunny is an Australian-based academic, paramedic, expedition leader and safety consultant whose professional experience spans prehospital health care, humanitarian operations, expedition medicine, flight medicine, and film &TV. Sunny served in the Australian army as a reconnaissance soldier where he deployed to several conflict zones, before working as a paramedic.
In 2015, he founded a humanitarian healthcare platform that delivered remote health care clinics and training programs to vulnerable communities in Nepal, Vanuatu, Timor Leste, Fiji and Samoa. These provided over 12,000 people with access to free primary health care.
Sunny has led over sixty remote expeditions and operationally managed over thirty. He has been awarded Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and Fellow of the Australasian College of Paramedicine. He is the former program director of UTAS Masters in Health Care in Remote & Extreme Environments and the Principal Fellow of the Academy of Extreme Environment Medicine.
Sunny has extensive experience working as a medic, safety swimmer, safety diver, technical mountaineer and safety supervisor on feature films, TV commercials, documentaries and reality TV shows.
In 2020 he established Explora Medicine as a way of encouraging good people to do great things in remote and extreme environment health care.
The beginning of Explora Medicine
Explora Medicine was born—not out of a conventional business plan, but from a series of epic misadventures, a healthy dose of audacity, and a firm belief that if you’re going to get into trouble, you might as well have a good risk manager and medic on hand.
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Enter Nick Abussi
Nick is a paramedic, educator and consultant who started his paramedicine career over 15 years ago. After years of service in regional and remote communities, Nick qualified as a Critical Care Paramedic where he continues to serve the western corridor of Queensland, Australia.
Nick has worked as an educator with several universities and is the founder of two media platforms focused on paramedic education. He has delivered education programs on alpine, dive and altitude medicine in the Australian Alps, Great Barrier Reef and Nepal.
He has planned expeditions and taskings in Timor Leste, Nepal, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea and has worked as a retrieval co-ordinator, planning the repatriations of sick and injured Australians from across the globe.
He has worked as a risk consultant for a large Australian NGO and paramedic consultant to a recent reality TV show in the Australian outback.
Nick is a Principal Fellow of the Australian Academy of Extreme Environment Medicine and joined Explora Medicine in 2022 working with several documentaries, feature films and reality TV shows during his time.
Today, we’re a team helping you thrive in the unknown
If you find yourself in a pinch, the Explora Medicine duo have built an unrivaled professional team of safety advisers, risk managers, technical specialists, and medical professionals. It’s the Explora Medicine way. Our team handles even the most urgent situations with ease, so you can focus on filming and producing awesome content.
So, if you’re scaling a mountain, traversing a jungle, crossing a desert, filming megafauna, descending to the depths of the ocean, ascending into thin air, or just attempting to keep your coffee from spilling on your keyboard, remember: Explora Medicine will be there to support you.
Our mission
To assist people to thrive in the unknown.
Our ethos
Our people are your people.
We are risk managers, security consultants, technical specialists, medical clinicians, adventurers, writers, producers, and content creators who all have one thing in common: a passion for exploring remote and extreme environments while keeping people safe. But we also stay true to our responsible travel policy in these three key areas.
- Minimising our impact on the environment and protecting the planet.
- Improving health literacy through education programs and cultural competence.
- Creating a safe and positive working environment for all staff.
We don’t just survive in these environments. We thrive.
Behind the scenes
We’re proud of the part we’ve played in some of Australia and the Asia Pacific’s best-told stories.
Let’s make a great production together
Team up with Explora Medicine for your next production. We’ll customise a plan to manage risk on your set and keep your crew and talent safe.
