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Indigenous Health Strider's Scoop

Issue #8
Image designed and owned by Talah Laurie
(Bundjalung woman, designer and LEAP Project Officer)
Dear STRIDErs,

While it’s been a difficult 12 months, there have been some highlights in our first year of STRIDE. We adapted to new ways of working, learning new skills and expanding our collaboration via online platforms.  Over 100 individuals and almost 40 different organisations joined in our first series of discussions, where we developed the STRIDE Indigenous Research Framework (Our ways of working) and further progressed ideas for STRIDE research.  Our second series centred on STRIDE key principles of community-led CQI, centralising respect in health systems and discussing STRIDE methodologies and we ended with a stirring workshop on poetry as a tool in research and research translation.  We unearthed more STRIDE talent (see below a poem from Leigh-ann Onnis written during the workshop)!  Watch this space for the beginnings of a STRIDE anthology.... a taster for our own 'Deadly Poets Society' in 2021.  Thank you to everyone who participated in our Zoom Rooms this year.  Soon we’ll send out a short evaluation to participants of the second series – please let us know your thoughts and suggestions to help us learn and improve as we go.  We're also working to upload presentations of the Zoom Room series on our website, please watch this space.

More broadly… as the pandemic hit home soil, the response from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care sector showed the value and effectiveness of Indigenous-led design of culturally-based strategies to keep staff and community safe.  Our thanks and appreciation to frontline staff and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled sector for their leadership and dedication in prioritising community in the COVID-19 public health campaign.  It again highlighted the health equity issues faced by our mob and, as Meg Williams and colleagues have written about, the importance of independent public interest journalism in communicating factual information and calling out inequitable systems of power and resources.  We encourage you to read and share their article below.


We look positively towards 2021, supporting the collaboration and continuing our yarns about quality, impactful research.  Read on for information about STRIDE Seed Funding opportunities – and don’t forget the STRIDE scholarships that have been advertised.

Thanks again for a deadly year.  Wishing you a happy holiday season, take some relaxation time and enjoy connecting with family, friends and loved ones.

Stay safe and well,
Veronica and Ross

Inquisitive minds and friendly faces
Brighten up a gloomy day
I registered for a CRE-STRIDE session, without reading about the topic
So when the calendar went bing, I just logged in
And there they were, those inquisitive minds and friendly faces
There they were. Some known, some new. All friendly.
What an afternoon it has been with Colm Keegan and those smiling friendly faces
When I turn on my camera, the picture is lost
Storm clouds, rain and a gloomy day take it all away
So from behind my black screen, I sit, and smile at those inquisitive minds and friendly faces

- Leigh-ann Onnis
(Adjunct Research Fellow, JCU)

STRIDE Seed Funding opportunities now available
STRIDE is now offering small project grants to stimulate the development of new projects related to STRIDE priorities.  These will be used to foster continued growth of QI research and develop new collaborations that attend to emerging research needs.  This is intended as “seed” funding to help build new projects and enable leverage into something more substantial.

Applications are open to any organisation that is able to put forward a bold idea, or strengthen and build on existing research.

For guidelines and eligibility, as well as the application form, see the below link.

For more information, please contact STRIDE Project Manager, Roxanne Smith.
download seed funding guidelines and application form here
The Curtin PhD Scholarship for Clinical Research
The University of Sydney Curtin PhD Scholarship for Clinical Research is now open.  This is a $50,000 scholarship to assist postgraduate research students undertaking a PhD with a focus on clinical research relevant to Indigenous or rural health.  The scholarship will provide a stipend allowance of $50,000 for up to three and a half years, subject to satisfactory academic performance.

To apply, you must:  

  • have an unconditional offer of admission or be currently enrolled to study in a PhD within the Faculty of Medicine and Health
  • be a medical graduate
  • be undertaking clinical research
  • be an Australian citizen or permanent resident.
find out more here
STRIDE operations 
Behind the scenes, we have a dedicated Management Committee (MC) made up of all 20 investigators representing service providers, policy-makers and researchers (50% First Nations).  With strategic input and guidance from the broader Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Reference Committee, the MC sets the strategic direction and operational aspects of STRIDE.

Since we launched in January, we have developed specific policies regarding travel support for STRIDE events, higher degree scholarship support, and seed funding for new research.  STRIDE’s governance structure and policy documents will be made available soon on the webpage and we aim to provide you updates as we progress. 

Our thanks to the MC for their hard work and time dedicated to STRIDE.

Publications

Sweet MA, Williams M, Armstrong R, Mohamed J, Finlay SM, Coopes A. Converging crises: public interest journalism, the pandemic and public health. Public Health Res Pract. 2020;30(4):e3042029.

Public interest journalism has faced a longstanding funding crisis, cutbacks of staff and resources, and closures of newsrooms. This crisis is a critical public health concern, and it has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.  At the same time, the pandemic has highlighted the important roles played by public interest journalism – including in addressing health equity issues.  The pandemic has also highlighted the need to address structural weaknesses in the media industry, with concentration of media ownership and underfunding of public broadcasters leading to many communities being under-served and under-represented.  The public health sector can make important contributions to developing and sustaining a robust, public interest journalism sector. Public health professionals and organisations can advocate for policy reform to support public interest journalism, and incorporate consideration of public interest journalism into advocacy, education, research and practice.



van Tuijl, A., Wollersheim, H.C., Fluit, C.R., van Gurp, P.J. and Calsbeek, H., 2020. Development of a tool for identifying and addressing prioritised determinants of quality improvement projects led by healthcare professionals: a mixed-methods study.  Implementation Science Communications: 92.

Several frameworks have been developed to identify essential determinants for healthcare improvement. These frameworks aim to be comprehensive, leading to the creation of long lists of determinants that are not prioritised based on being experienced as most important. Furthermore, most existing frameworks do not describe the methods or actions used to identify and address the determinants, limiting their practical value. The aim of this study is to describe the development of a tool with prioritised facilitators and barriers supplemented with methods to identify and address each determinant. The tool can be used by those performing quality improvement initiatives in healthcare practice.

 

News & Events

Help PLOS Medicine build a new, more equitable future for Open Access publishing

On 1st January 2021, PLOS Medicine is launching a new Community Action Publishing (CAP) model which aims to eliminate author publication fees and make publishing in selective journals like PLOS Medicine more equitable for researchers.  They'll partner with institutions to distribute costs equitably, giving authors more freedom to choose how they publish.

read more

New Heart Foundation Aboriginal resource

In collaboration with colleagues in the Pilbara, the Heart Foundation has developed a 90-second animation encouraging a heart check.  The Heart Foundation are very keen to evaluate video acceptability with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, and whether it assists behaviour change - feedback can be given via a quick online survey here

watch the video here

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Special Issue

Submissions are now open for a Special Issue on The Health and Wellbeing of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples around the Globe in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

This Special Issue is intended to showcase best practice in research across a broad range of topic areas relating to the health and wellbeing of Indigenous and Tribal peoples around the world, with a particular emphasis on work that goes beyond mere description and seeks to implement and evaluate positive change at a local, regional, national, or global level.

Guest editors for this issue include Professor Joan Cunningham, Dr Lisa Whop, Dr Kalinda Griffith and Dr Abbey Diaz.

Submissions close 31 May 2021.

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