Join the University of Queensland Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and the University of Sydney Poche Centre for Indigenous Health on for a seminar featuring guest speaker Dr. Suzanne L. Stewart, PhD, C.Psych, Professor, University of Toronto.
The ENDING-STI Synergy project: Targeting sexually transmissible infections in regional Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities using a precision public health approach.
In this seminar, Roslyn will share her wealth of experience and expertise in fostering meaningful and impactful community engagement within First Nations communities.
Hear how the Portable Health Clinic (PHC) system endeavours to take healthcare facilities, along with remote doctors’ consultancy, to the doorsteps of unreached communities using an advanced telemedicine system.
Prof Xue Li’s work on Big Data Analytics has attracted wide attention. He was listed as one of 50 “The Most Powerful people in Australia" on Big Data by the Financial Review - the Power Issue 2015; the Microsoft Start-Up Q Award 2014, Winner of the Best use of Open Data – QLD Premier’s Awards for Open Data 2014.
The Healthy Cities initiative has been envisioned as a framework to respond to health issues that have emerged due to rapid urbanisation; it places health at the core of local policies to promote health and well-being, equity, and sustainable development.
With an increasing demand for more accessible and efficient healthcare, digital health has become an increasingly important area of focus. In this keynote, A/Prof Sullivan will explore the various digital health initiatives that are currently being explored at the Queensland Digital Health Centre.
About the speaker
Professor Craig Munns is the Head, Mayne Academy of Paediatrics and Director, Child Health Research Centre at The University of Queensland. He is also a Senior Medical Office Department of Endocrinology at Queensland Children’s Hospital.
People diagnosed with cancer are at higher risk than the general population of developing cardiovascular disease. This is largely due to increased exposure to cardiovascular risk factors and cancer-treatment related cardiotoxicity.
Dr Judith Dean, a Registered Nurse/Midwife with over 25-years clinical and research experience in sexual and reproductive health (SRH), HIV and other BBV, is a Senior Research Fellow in the UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health.
The Partnership for Justice in Health (P4JH) works to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and justice outcomes through addressing racism at individual, institutional and systemic levels.
A/Prof Renae Kirkham is a senior research fellow and Deputy lead of the Diabetes across Lifecourse Northern Australia Partnership, within the Wellbeing and Preventable Chronic Diseases division of Menzies.
In Australia’s health and medical professions, scopes of practice are diverse and progressive, but they are not used effectively. Our health workforce is a key healthcare resource that are often under-utilised and could help deliver improved access to healthcare, new models of care and better health outcomes.
In the past decade ‘race’ has surfaced in public discourse concerning constitutional reform to limit the capacity of parliament’s race powers to discriminate negatively against Indigenous people and people of colour.
The Inala Indigenous Health Service (IIHS), a mainstream health service has been in operation since 1995. In the first year of operation only 12 Indigenous patients were identified. Today the service has over 10,000 patients registered with around 4,000 regular patients.
Dr Danielle Butler, General Practitioner | Epidemiologist | Health Services Research, Institute for Urban Indigenous Health
Antoinette White, Research Assistant, Institute for Urban Indigenous Health