October 27, 2009 – 8:12pm
The Indigenous Health Project Officer will work to ensure that the Crescent project is relevant to and engaged with the Indigenous community in the North and West of Melbourne. This is a new position and an exciting new project, and there is scope for development and creativity. This project officer will report to the Project [...]
August 17, 2009 – 10:41am
Onemda’s Talkin’ Strong newsletter edition 23 is now available at www.onemda.unimelb.edu.au or contact us on 03 83440813 for a hard copy.
August 17, 2009 – 10:35am
This report is the first arising from the Victorian Aboriginal Child Mortality Study, 1988-2008. The first of its kind in Victoria, this report investigates population-based administrative and statutory datasets that collect information describing the health of Victoria’s Aboriginal (and non-Aboriginal) infants, children and young people.
The report is available from the ‘Resource Centre’ of the study’s [...]
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, [...]
December 9, 2008 – 2:46pm
A new report by the Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Tobacco Control (CEITC) highlighting the need for greater research and resources to tackle Indigenous smoking rates will inform and support the COAG commitment to addressing the key risk factors for chronic diseases, the single largest contributor to the 17-year life expectancy gap between Indigenous and [...]
December 1, 2008 – 2:37pm
Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Units latest Talkin’ Strong newsletter is available. For a copy of the newsletter click here.
November 28, 2008 – 10:34am
The Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Tobacco Control (CEITC) has published a new report called Indigenous Tobacco Control in Australia: Everybody’s Business – National Indigenous Tobacco Control Research Roundtable Report, 2008
This is a report of a roundtable meeting held in Brisbane in May 2008 by CEITC and the CRCAH and was a follow on to the 2007 meeting. [...]
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 [...]
October 7, 2008 – 10:24am
On Tuesday 7th October Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit launched their latest community report, We can like Research…In Koori hands at the Koorie Heritage Trust. This report builds on our 1999 report We Don’t like research…But in Koori hands it could make a difference. For a copy of the report click here.