Category: Research
... populations face significant challenges in achieving good health. As a result, this population experiences earlier death and more ... complex health conditions, communities of low socioeconomic status, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people residing in ... end-of-life care, dementia, substance abuse, and mental health. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health Aboriginal and Torres ...
Category: News & Articles
... a Hunter researcher will fund a first-of-its kind program to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander fathers to quit smoking when their ... a Hunter researcher will fund a first-of-its kind program to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander fathers to quit smoking when their ... Associate with the University’s School of Medicine and Public Health and HMRI affiliated researcher, Dr Parivash Eftekhari, said the ...
Category: Research
The vision: optimal health for all women. We study maternal health, sexual and reproductive ... The Inquiry into Support for New Parents and Babies in NSW regarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families. Policy makers about the ... evaluation of a novel cervical cancer screening program with Walgett Aboriginal Medical Service and Family Planning NSW. The Chronic ...
Category: News & Articles
... in federal funding to establish a new committee to help improve health outcomes for First Nations people. The University of Newcastle in ... Associate Professor Michelle Kennedy. “All research involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be deemed safe and respectful by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples,” Wiradjuri woman and ...
Category: News & Articles
... research that translates to better treatments and better access to health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. To mark and celebrate ... and throat (ENT) model, based in metropolitan, rural and regional Aboriginal community controlled health services, enabling improvement in ...
Category: News & Articles
Hunter New England Health clinician and researcher Nicole Turner was honoured at the recent 2014 NSW Aboriginal Health Awards for her work in encouraging nutritious eating, ... and researcher Nicole Turner was honoured at the recent 2014 NSW Aboriginal Health Awards for her work in encouraging nutritious eating, ...
Category: General
... an insight into the importance of eliminating the gap in Indigenous health and the work that’s being done here in the Hunter to benefit ... event will explore the link between health and education outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Hear from Ear Nose and ... Media is a middle ear infection that disproportionately impacts Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, with many affected by ...
Category: General
... needs and priority populations. These include maternal and infant health, pain, drug and alcohol, mental health, and older person care. All projects supported in our program ... infectious disease clinicians, pharmacists, rural clinicians, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Key elements of the trial ...
Category: News & Articles
... of NSW, Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO will open a new Arts for Health exhibition at John Hunter Hospital on Friday night, which ... a program designed to improve the health outcomes of expectant Aboriginal mums. Her Excellency, The Governor of NSW, Professor Marie ... a program designed to improve the health outcomes of expectant Aboriginal mums. The Gomeroi gaaynggal program, led by Professor Roger ...
Category: News & Articles
... million grant to the University of Newcastle’s Gomeroi gaaynggal health centre at Tamworth and Walgett, enabling it to continue operating ... funding will ensure the program can continue to work with local Aboriginal mothers to better understand chronic diseases in the ... Tamworth centre has supported more than 250 expectant mothers, using Aboriginal art as the medium to providing ante-natal medical and ...
