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Centre for Research Excellence:
Strengthening Systems for Indigenous
Health Care Equity
Indigenous Health Strider's Scoop
 
Issue #14
September 2021
Professor Sarah Larkins appointed Dean of James Cook University's College of Medicine & Dentistry
Image: James Cook University

Congratulations to Sarah Larkins, STRIDE Chief Investigator, for her appointment as the new Dean of College of Medicine and Dentistry at JCU.
 
“I saw a community with lots and lots of cultural strengths but also huge health inequities and issues with access to health care. At that point I decided Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health had to be something I focused on in my medical career.”

Read more about Sarah's appointment and her work in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health settings. 
STRIDE Research Capacity Webinar

"Ngarraagna Giinganay ('thinking peacefully'): Co-design of a culturally-grounded mindfulness-based stress-reduction program with older Aboriginal Australians"

Please join us on Thursday, 16th September 2021, for our next Research Capacity Strengthening webinar: "Ngarraagna Giinganay ('thinking peacefully'): Co-design of a culturally-grounded mindfulness-based stress-reduction program with older Aboriginal Australians", presented by Uncle Terry Donovan and Louise Lavrencic from Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA).

Life-course stress and depression are of substantial concern for older Aboriginal people, yet translation into appropriate treatment or wellbeing programs is limited.  This study aimed to co-design a culturally-grounded stress-reduction program, with an Aboriginal community on Gumbaynggirr Country.  The 8-session group-based program was developed based on extensive consultation, and named in Gumbaynggirr language: Ngarraanga Giinganay.  A small pilot feasibility trial was conducted with older Aboriginal people, co-facilitated by an Aboriginal clinician and local Elder.  Content was aligned with community cultural understandings/practices and therapeutic principles of mindfulness.  The program was feasible and acceptable to participants.  Qualitative analysis indicated the program enhanced understandings of mindfulness, with benefits including helping with anxiety, overeating, relaxation, focusing on the current moment and connection to Country/Mother Earth.  Improvements were seen for mindful awareness, depression, anxiety, and blood pressure.  This study provides insight into partnering with Aboriginal communities through ageing research; and highlights the effectiveness of the co-design approach.  Ngarraanga Giinganay has considerable potential for supporting the wellbeing of older Aboriginal peoples.

About the presenters

Louise Lavrencic is a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow working with the Aboriginal Health & Ageing Program at Neuroscience Research Australia. She is passionate about understanding the factors that affect cognitive ageing and dementia in late life, particularly with Aboriginal communities, and how we can help people to age well. Louise works across a number of projects being run by the Aboriginal Health and Ageing Team, but is particularly involved in co-designing a stress reduction program as well as a neuroimaging study investigating dementia in Aboriginal Australians.

Terry Donovan identifies as a Gumbaynggirr / Biripi man. His father was a Gumbaynggirr man and his mother a Biripi woman. Terry has had a diverse career, from military service, working in local government and non-for-profit community services, to providing education to health professionals on Aboriginal Cultural awareness. Additionally, Terry worked with the National Parks & Wildlife Service of NSW as one of 3 Aboriginal Sites Officers. As an Aboriginal sites officer, he travelled to all Aboriginal communities in NSW and collected information about Aboriginal Sacred sites, Aboriginal occupational sites and Aboriginal history & Culture. Terry is a much valued member of the Koori Growing Old Well Study team on the Mid North Coast and is employed as a Knowledge Translation Officer.

CRE-STRIDE Research Capacity Strengthening Webinars are free of cost and open to all. Please feel free to share this through your networks.

To register, click on the link below.

For more information, please contact STRIDE Project Officer, Kerryn Harkin.

register here
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WellMob website:
Online resources for health workers to keep our mob well in these challenging times

Last month's STRIDE Research Capacity Strengthening webinar, presented by WellMob developers and UCRH/STRIDE researchers Talah Laurie and David Edwards, showcased the WellMob website under the national Electronic Mental Health in Practice project.

The WellMob website, co-developed with Indigenous health and wellbeing workers, is the country's first online library of over 200 videos, apps, podcasts and other website on Indigenous social and emotional wellbeing.  It's been designed to help our diverse health and wellbeing workforce to find and share online wellbeing resources with our mob, helping to keep them strong, particularly in these challenging times.  


Here's a sample of some of the wonderful resources that Talah and David shared with us that are available on WellMob: 

Video: The Journey of Health & Wellbeing, produced by WA Department of Health (Tim Muirhead & Danny Ford)

Video: Be Deadly Online - That's Not Team Spirit, produced by eSafety Office

For more resources and info on WellMob, click on the link below.  A big thanks to Talah and David for sharing this deadly website with us. 

more WellMob resources
Positions Vacant

Flinders University are seeking an Assistant Manager to oversee service delivery and research in the Quality Assurance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Medical Services (QAAMS) Program.
 
Position Summary
Fixed-term, full-time, available until 30 June 2025
 
Compensation Grade:
Higher Education Officer Level 8
 
Salary Range:   
$100,238 - $110,971 pa
 
More details/Application site:
https://flinders.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/flinders_employment/job/Bedford-Park/Assistant-Manager--QAAMS-Program_JR0000002441

News & Events
Implementation Science Health Conference 2021: Ensuring Equity Through Engagement & Research
Thursday 28 & Friday 29 October 2021, Sydney

The inaugural Implementation Science Health Conference Australia 2021 (ISHCA 21) will bring together international and Australian leaders in implementation science – including Sydney Health Partners, Maridulu Budyari Gumal SPHERE and the National Centre of Implementation Science – to explore contemporary themes in health equity and how implementation science can be harnessed to increase the benefits of health and medical research to all.

A call for abstracts and registrations will open next month. Make a date to present your implementation research, or join the conference participants, and help advance the science of implementation in Australia.

For further information about ISHCA 21 visit implementationscience.com.au
or email sydneyhealthpartners.snrprojectofficer@sydney.edu.au


6th Annual Ngar-wu Wanyarra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Conference

The 6th Annual Ngar-wu Wanyarra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Conference, brought to you by The University of Melbourne, Department of Rural Health, will take place on 13th October 2021. 

The aim for the conference is to facilitate the exchange of information on key issues in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ health and wellbeing through the delivery of high impact keynote addresses by national leaders from within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.  The conference also provides a forum for the presentation of cutting-edge program initiatives and research findings in Aboriginal health and wellbeing by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioners and their colleagues. 

Stan Grant will be the keynote speaker. 

Click here for more info.  

HSRAANZ First Nations Health, Wellbeing & Health Services Research (HSR) Award
The Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand (HSRAANZ) is excited to announce this new award that will run alongside our prestigious annual awards program

This award aims to recognise First Nations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia, and Māori, tangata whenua of Aotearoa-New Zealand) researchers or First Nations-led projects whose work contributes to improving health inequities for First Nations peoples through engaging principles of social justice, self-determination and empowerment.  Specifically the work will demonstrate scholarly leadership in First Nations health services research.

Closing Date 30 September 2021

For more information and to make a nomination.


ASCPRI Indigenous HDR Scholarships

ACSPRI Indigenous HDR Scholarship continues to be available to support Indigenous Higher Degree By Research Students attending ACSPRI Courses.

The Summer 2022 Program (January 17- February 18), is now open for enrolments.

If you'd like more information about any of our courses or our Scholarships, please feel free to contact us on 03 8376 6496 or you can email us at info@acspri.org.au.

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