There is urgent need for truth telling and self-determination to address the actualities and inter-generational health and wellbeing impacts of racial discrimination in Australia’s health services and complex health system. Singular interventions that particularly focus on quantifying Indigenous people's morbidity and mortality and inequalities, as opposed to addressing the inequities that cause them, is a key and much needed paradigm shift in the way Indigenous health research is approached.
This unique Indigenous-led project was a collaboration with five Indigenous and four non-Indigenous CI researchers, with five AIs, to understand Indigenous people's’ experiences of discrimination when accessing health services.
This project was funded by an NHMRC Ideas Grant.
Aims
- Examine Indigenous Australians’ lived experiences of discrimination when accessing health services before, during & after the COVID-19 public health emergency, to develop impactful public health and human rights policy, and legal guidance briefs.
- Generate understanding of section 37 (right to access health services without discrimination) in Queensland’s new Human Rights Act (2019) among Indigenous Australians & co-design an Indigenous right to health interpretation.
- Explore Indigenous people and health sector, understandings of the potential familial implications of the use of genomics in healthcare and personalised medicine, to provide regulatory guidance for the ethical & rights-based deployment of genomic technologies.
Professor Maree Toombs
Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney
Dr Claire Brolan
School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland
Dr Caitlin Curtis
Research Fellow, Centre for Policy Futures, The University of Queensland
Dr Kelly Dingli
Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council
Professor Sandra Creamer
Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
Mr Gregory Pratt
The Council of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research
Professor Wendy Hoy
Royal Brisbane Clinical Unit, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland
Avelina Tarrago
Professor Joshua Byrnes
Centre for Applied Helath Economics, Griffith University