Nouria Sultana Salehi AM is an Afghan-Australian nuclear physicist, biophysicist and humanitarian.

[1] Salehi began practising nuclear medicine in Kabul but chose to migrate to Australia in 1981, shortly before the Russian invasion.

[1] She founded the Afghan Australian Development Organisation in 2001 and serves as its executive director.

[3] She has also served as a committee member for a number of other refugee, ecumenical and human rights groups.

[3] Salehi was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 1997 Queen's Birthday Honours for "service to human rights, particularly through the Afghan community, and to refugees and women's support groups".