December 12, 2008 – 12:27pm
The paucity and inaccuracy of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health data collection will hinder efforts to closing the health disparity gap between Indigenous and other Australians according to an editorial in the latest e-newsletter of the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health.
Written by Associate Professor Jane Freemantle of the Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, [...]
November 21, 2008 – 2:50pm
The Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit (within the Centre for Health and Society) is undertaking an exciting research program. This project addresses the critical issue of lack of data describing Aboriginal health, particularly child health, with an innovative method and research process that will facilitate effective knowledge dissemination and further reform the quality of Aboriginal [...]
November 14, 2008 – 2:44pm
Professor Ian Anderson was invited by the Assembly of First Nations to address an expert meeting on Global Indigenous Tuberculosis in Toronto, Canada which was held on 13-14 November 2008. He provided a presentation on the social determinants of health to Indigenous health leaders, political leaders, global Tuberculosis expert, and government officials, as well as [...]
The Centre for Health & Society celebrated its 10-year anniversary on the 11th and 12th of March 2007.
CHS staff met with invited speakers Professor Warwick H. Anderson, the inaugural director of the Centre, Professor Peter Skold from Umea University (Sweden) and Associate Professor Papaarangi Reid, Tumuaki Dean, The University of Auckland, to hear their perspectives [...]
August 29, 2007 – 10:38am
Professor Ian Anderson was invited to speak at the Staff/Student Forum at The University of Melbourne on 29 Aug 07. His talk was titled ‘Chronic to Crisis: Indigenous sexual abuse and other policy debates in Indigenous health’. In this talk he discussed the recommendations of the Little Children Are Sacred Report and the Australian Government [...]