Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Health Anu Medical School

The ANU Medical School offers medical students the opportunity to study Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, through lectures, research project opportunities and cultural activities within their 4 year medical program.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health team at the Medical School has three new staff all with a passion and experience in Indigenous health. Dr Stewart Sutherland, Chair of Indigenous Health is a Wiradjuri man with over a decade of experience working in Indigenous health.

In this course students will develop an understanding of the health issues confronting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the 21st century, and their basis in Aboriginal and Torres Strain Islander post-colonization history.

Explain the impact of Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander post-colonization history on Indigenous culture, and the subsequent impact on prevention, definition, diagnosis & treatment of illness. Identify and describe features of overt, subtle & structural discrimination in interactions between patients, health professionals and systems.

The Indigenous Health Stream within the ANU Medical School, allows a small cohort of Indigenous and non-Indigenous students the opportunity to undertake targeted research in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Wellbeing. Highlights.

The ANU Medical School encourages applications from people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent. There are recognised places available each year in the Medicinae ac Chirurgiae Doctoranda (MChD) program, latin for Doctor of Medicine and Surgery to applicants of this background. Applicants from an Aboriginal and/or Torres Islander ...

Indigenous Australians are much more likely to be hospitalised for diseases and conditions than non-Indigenous people. At the ANU Medical School, we are committed to closing the gap by training doctors who have a deep knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health issues. We have integrated the Medical Deans ...

Sep 18, 2015 Now in its sixth year, the program gives medical students experience working in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, teaching them about specific cultural and health care needs.

Our research focus areas include: Research topics. Culture and health. Family and community safety. Cardiovascular health. Smoking, drug and alcohol use. Obesity and nutrition. Research methods. Reframing epidemiological analysis (strengths-based) Quantitative methods capacity building and training. Methods of analysis for small samples.

Internationally-acclaimed Aboriginal researcher and clinician Dr Alex Brown will take up a new appointment as Professor of Indigenous Genomics as part of a new strategic partnership between Perths Telethon Kids Institute and ANU.

It was during these discussions Ms Glover found out about the Jessica King Scholarship, an annual scholarship aimed to assist an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student to undertake the MChD program. Dr King was the first Indigenous graduate of the program in 2014.

Applicants who are Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander may be eligible for Indigenous-specific services, scholarships and/or priority admission. Access to these services is conditional on the provision of confirmation of Aboriginal and/

Overview. Study. Fees. Class. Code HLTH3001. Unit Value 6 units. Offered by ANU Medical School. ANU College ANU Joint Colleges of Science. Course subject Health Science. Areas of interest Anthropology, Australian Indigenous Studies, Medicine, Health. Academic career UGRD. Mode of delivery In Person. Offered in See Future Offerings.

In this course students will develop their understanding of the health issues confronting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the 21st century, and their basis in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander post-colonization history. Students will learn about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and its impact on community ...

My role at SMP is an EA to Stewart, Providing Admin support with the Indigenous Health Stream (IHS) program, Providing Support with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Medical students and working with Indigenous students with their pathway to Medicine. The top three things on my to do list are Catch up with all the tasks on the handover notes

The Northern Territory has the highest proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people relative to total population size at 30.8%.4. 120,000. 44%. Western Australia 52,000. 339,500. live in inner/outer. South New South Wales regional areas Australia. 9,500. ACT.

About the event The Heart Health Yarning Tool is a shared decision-making tool designed to support conversations between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their health professionals about cardiovascular risk. This tool provides a shared decision-making approach for health professionals to discuss cardiovascular risk and explore risk reduction options in a ...

The ANU College of Health and Medicine comprises the Research School of Psychology, the ANU Medical School, the John Curtin School of Medical Research and the Research School of Population Health. ... The University actively encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Studying Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, I sought to learn the truth about Australias history and the resilience of First Nation peoples. I sought to challenge my personal understanding of self and place. All of these lessons have been uniquely facilitated by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit.

18 August 2017. Members of the ACT Government were on hand when the ANU Medical School awarded its 2017 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholarships at a ceremony held at University House on Friday 18 August 2017.

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Health Practitioners work with communities, families, and individuals of all ages. They work autonomously and in teams with other health professionals, including medical doctors, registered nurses and midwives, dentists, psychologists, allied health professionals; and with policy ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health. An undergraduate course offered by the School of Medicine and Psychology. HLTH3001. Academic Year . 2025 . 2025. 2024. 2023. 2022. 2021. 2020. 2019. 2018. 2017. 2016. 2015. 2014. CodeHLTH3001. Unit Value6 units . . Academic Codes . Offered bySchool of Medicine and Psychology.