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A Uniquely Australian Faculty – Indigenous Health And A UniqUely AUstrAliAn FACULTY IndIgenous HealtH and development as tHe Cornerstone COntents FOREWORd FROM THE dEAN, FAcUl TY OF MdHS 01 REFlEcTiON: iNdigENOUS dEvElOPMENT TEAM 02 gOOd NEWS STORiES 03 Victorian Aboriginal Child Mortality Study » McKenzie Post-Doctoral Fellowship » Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Research & Leadership » Student Pathways into Health » Australian Qualifications Framework FRAMEWORkS FOR THE FUTURE 04 TAFE PATHWAY TWO YEARS ON 20 Learning from Thinkers of the Past » The First 1000 Days » Indigenous Pathways into Medicine THE ROAd TO A cAREER iN HEAl TH 22 PREciNcT Partners 08 cOMMUNiTY TRiAlS EXAMiNE cHRONic EAR iNFEcTiON 24 The Faculty and Northern Health » RMH Indigenous Internship » Lowitja Institute MENTORiNg PROgRAM 27 THE UNiqUE STUdY EXPERiENcE OF THE MASTER 12 OF PUBlic HEAl TH HEAlTH SciENcES 28 Interview with former MDHS Physiotherapy student Candice Liddy » TRANSFORMiNg THE FUTURE OF iNdigENOUS HEAl TH 14 Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work Research in the Academy » 20 x 20 » Indigenous Leaders in Health TEcHNOlOgY ANd HEAl TH 30 iMPROviNg iNdigENOUS ORAl HEAl TH 18 POSTScRiPT 34 NOTE ON TERMiNOlOgY This work is copyright. It may be reproduced in whole SiX kEY AcTiON AREAS Our contributors to this report have used or in part for study or training purposes, or by Aboriginal In developing the first RAP in and Torres Strait Islander community organisations various terms for Australia’s First Peoples 2010, the University committed subject to an acknowledgment of the source and no – ‘Aboriginal’, ‘Koori’, ‘Aboriginal and Torres commercial use or sale. Reproduction for other purposes to six Action Areas, each of which Strait Islander’, and ‘Indigenous’ – all of or by other organisations requires the written permission was targeted to contribute to the which are particular to the context in of the copyright holder(s). framework for action developed PARTNERSHiPS cUlTURAl ABORigiNAl ANd ABORigiNAl ANd TEAcHiNg RESEARcH which they are used. Managing Editor: Kristi Roberts by Reconciliation Australia. In REcOgNiTiON TORRES STRAiT TORRES STRAiT ANd lEARNiNg Copy Editor: Jane Yule @ Brevity Comms © Copyright for this guide as a whole is held by the formulating the second RAP, the iSlANdER Student iSlANdER Staff STRATEgiES Design: Nichole Allder @ 22% More Chicken Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University has retained the same six REcRUiTMENT and EMPlOYMENT The University of Melbourne. Action Areas, which are as follows. RETENTiON ISBN 978 0 7340 5142 4 01 Stephen Smith dean’s FOreWOrD 01 efore my arrival in Melbourne in late Melbourne Hospital’s Indigenous Internship 2013, my knowledge of Australian Program, and long-standing research BIndigenous health was limited. Over a long programs such as those at the Lowitja career in health and medicine, however, Institute, are making important contributions I have come to understand the critical towards our mutual goals for reconciliation. role that equity plays in determining the In the critical area of research, our aim health outcomes of both individuals and is to contribute through a range of communities. Work being done by both programs, such as using digital technology Indigenous and non-Indigenous health and to preserve Indigenous culture or solving medical researchers, practitioners, and chronic or endemic health problems like Indigenous community leaders is improving otitis media in young children. So that our understanding of the complex causal our commitment reaches into the future pathways that impact upon Indigenous we are also focusing on research training health. As our community comes to and developing structures that support understand and challenge these health Indigenous students to aspire to and disparities, we will identify and create new succeed in a research career. causal pathways that lead to health and success. The Melbourne Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, created through the generosity This publication outlines some of the many of Greg Poche and Kay van Norton Poche, ways we are working towards reconciliation was launched late in 2014. Part of a across the Faculty: from our employment national network of five centres that practices to our teaching programs, from the Poches have established across our research to our community engagement. Australia, Melbourne’s centre is focusing I have been impressed by the deep level of on developing Indigenous leadership for commitment to reconciliation throughout health. I see the opportunity to create a new the Faculty and the fundamental role it is generation of Indigenous leaders, who will claiming within our organisational culture. exercise influence and generate the change We are creating flexible pathways to learning necessary to transform the health landscape and careers for Indigenous students and for Indigenous Australia, as a great privilege providing support that is tailored to the for this Faculty. needs of the student. Our teaching programs Each of the activities detailed within these featured here work to provide medical and pages also work towards reconciliation other health practitioners with the skills by embedding our commitment into the needed to strengthen the culture and health organisational culture of our staff, students of Indigenous communities through and partners. Ensuring our aims for their practice. reconciliation are fixed in our core purpose Creating opportunities for Indigenous people – to improve the health of individuals and to work at the University is equally important communities throughout the world – is and collaborative work by our Indigenous essential to our success. But once European settlers arrived, The background design represents ABOUT THE ARTWORk Development and Human Resources teams, The Wurundjeri people used fire heavy stock grazing marked the the intergenerational knowledge that I hope that, as you read the stories in together with Murrup Barak, are doing just to manage the land and to promote rapid decline of the Myrnong, among forms our thinking about health and these pages, you will join me in celebrating that with a program providing essential new growth that would provide other plants, hinting at the health wellbeing. The flower is growing in the commitment and achievements entry level positions for Indigenous TAFE the right conditions for particular ramifications that were to come. a basket that is being embraced and of our staff and students in this greatly Despite this decline, the Myrnong nurtured, representing a renewal graduates. Our whole Faculty staff mentoring tuberous plants to grow, such important endeavour. as Myrnong (or yam daisy). As a has survived under the harshest of of culture and knowledge. program is also in place to assist staff with principal part of the diet, Myrnong conditions in selected areas or as the development of their career. Professor Stephen Smith Shawana Andrews was intensely harvested and used seedlings in Indigenous nurseries. Dean, Faculty of Medicine, We also place great value on the activities as both a root vegetable and herb, This image depicts the Myrnong Dentistry and Health Sciences which contributed to a good diet of our many research and clinical partners. flower, which represents Aboriginal The University of Melbourne and good health. Recent initiatives such as the Royal health, development and knowledge. 01 01 Shaun Ewen 02 Kristi Roberts reFleCtiOn GOOD neWs IndIgenous storIes development team Victorian Aboriginal Child McKenzie Post-Doctoral Student Pathways into Health Mortality Study Fellowship Lena-Jean Charles-Loffel finished her first year A landmark six-year study undertaken by Simon Graham has been awarded a of the Master of Public Health course after 01 The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and As highlighted throughout this report, our researchers in the Centre for Health Equity three-year McKenzie Post-Doctoral completing a Bachelor of Arts (BA) (Extended), Health Sciences is to be congratulated for its Indigenous leaders and emerging leaders at the Melbourne School of Population and Fellowship based in the Melbourne School majoring in Sociology, at the University in 2013. leadership, initiatives and innovation in the are diverse and come from many health Global Health has identified that the gap in of Population and Global Health, with an This huge achievement signifies the importance area of Indigenous development and health. fields. This, coupled with exceptional the Aboriginal infant mortality rate in Victoria Associate position in the Melbourne Poche of both the BA (Extended) and the Bachelor Framed by the University of Melbourne’s collegiality from our non-Indigenous is higher than first thought. Centre for Indigenous Health. His research of Science (BSc.) (Extended) in providing a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), this report colleagues, is crucial for sustaining growth focuses on STIs and viral hepatitis among pathway for motivated and aspiring Indigenous The study provided data on infant mortality, highlights some of the work undertaken and ensuring a lasting impact. Aboriginal Australians. students who do not meet the regular entry by Faculty staff, students and precinct and the postneonatal and childhood mortality requirements for the BA or BSc. It is a four-year As the title on the front cover suggests, only partners to improve health outcomes rates of the Victorian-born Aboriginal Simon’s PhD involved working with Aboriginal degree with integrated academic development, by recognising and embracing the fact that for Indigenous
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