Healing Country: weaving knowledge systems to meet climate challenges
First Nations communities are at the forefront of human induced changes to climate and already experience negative impacts on health, energy, food and water security. This is compromising communities’ connection to culture and country that are fundamental determinants of health and wellbeing. There is growing recognition of the importance and value of bringing together Western […]
The Healthy Environment and Lives Network
The Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL) Network is a catalyst for research, knowledge exchange, and translation into policy and practice to bring measurable improvements to our health, the Australian health system, and the environment.
Extreme heat and pregnancy complications: harnessing the diverse Australian climate and population for global answers
This projects brings together a diverse project team to integrate data from lived experience, environmental epidemiology and biological mechanisms to understand the impact of heat on health in pregnancy. By leveraging the unique Australian climate diversity and our connections via the Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) network, outcomes from this work will be fast-tracked to […]
Decarbonizing the remote primary health care sector: a pilot study in Central Australia
Climate mitigation is key to reducing future climate change related health risks. The remote primary health care sector could play an important role in mitigation efforts by reducing its own carbon footprint as well as by promoting less carbon intensive traditional healing practices followed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This pilot study will […]
DaPPHne (Diagnosing Potentially Preventable Hospitalisations)
The DaPPHne study aimed to determine the proportion of hospital admissions for older people with chronic conditions (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure, diabetes complications and angina) that were deemed to be preventable and to identify potentially modifiable factors driving these particular admissions, in order to develop effective interventions to reduce admissions and improve measures […]
Connecting our Way
Connecting our Way (CoW) will help to establish and maintain the connections to family, culture, country and community that are essential for strengthening Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children’s cultural and social and emotional wellbeing through to adulthood. CoW will offer an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander led, placed-based program that enhances children’s SEWB through […]
Assessing the contraceptive choice and decision-making processes of adolescent and young women in rural and remote New South Wales
Inconsistent and ineffective contraception use contributes to the large numbers of unintended pregnancy rates in Australia, particularly in young people living in rural and remote regions. The oral contraceptive pill remains the most widely used method, despite the more reliable and effective long-acting reversible contraceptives being first line for all reproductively aged women. To improve […]
Self-organising systems to minimise future disaster risk
This project responded to the unprecedented fire and flood events experienced in NSW in recent years, and the increasing burden on communities to respond in times of disaster. We worked with three impacted sites across NSW – the Northern Rivers, the Blue Mountains and the Hawkesbury –over an 18-month period, to better understand the community-led […]
Clean Energy for Healthy Environment and Lives
Clean Energy for Healthy Environment and Lives (CE4HEAL) aimed to increase access and adoption of domestic solar systems and reduce polluting fuel use in rural and remote Australia and India, contributing to cleaner air, affordable and improved energy security, and better health outcomes for rural, remote and Indigenous communities in both countries.
A preference-informed model to improve access and equity in bowel screening for Australia’s First Nations people through home care services
Our objective is to develop a scalable and sustainable approach to increasing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s participation in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program, based on a detailed understanding of their values and preferences for screening. In doing so we will strengthen the evidence base about how to increase screening among under-screened populations.
