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Talkin’ Strong The Community newsletter of the Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit ISSUE NO. 13 APRIL 2006 Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit is now seven years old. Rudolph Steiner described human life as going through seven-year cycles, and if the analogy is to be applied to the Unit, it means that we are entering into the phase of young adulthood. In consideration of this, in February the Unit had an ‘action day’ instead of a ‘planning day’, at which we reviewed what we had done, what the sugges- tions had been from Community to im- prove what we do, and to have a firm plan of action for the coming year. The primary point of discussion was how to engage effectively with Community, and how to be responsive to and respectful of Community demands. Our teaching and research continue to be informed by principles of Indigenous community development, and we value and seek close engagement with Community. This distinguishes us from many other academic units in that we aim to imple- ment projects that address Community priorities rather than projects that are driven primarily by the academic inter- ests of researchers. As you will see in this newsletter, the beginning of the year had been a busy period. Students returned to the univer- sity, teaching started for the year, and Onemda staff were heavily engaged in the 4th ASSA Indigenous Postgraduate Summer School (see page 4). The Unit has grown in size and complex- ity over the past seven years and, as we enter the phase of young adulthood as an organisation, hopefully we have grown in maturity as well. There will be opportunities for input into our teaching and learning, research and community development programs as the year goes on, and we hope to continue to listen and learn from the depth of knowledge within the Community. Onemda Update!

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Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit is now seven years old. Rudolph Steiner described human life as going through seven-year cycles, and if the analogy is to be applied to the Unit, it means that we are entering into the phase of young adulthood.

In consideration of this, in February the Unit had an ‘action day’ instead of a ‘planning day’, at which we reviewed what we had done, what the sugges-tions had been from Community to im-prove what we do, and to have a firm plan of action for the coming year. The primary point of discussion was how to engage effectively with Community, and how to be responsive to and respectful of Community demands. Our teaching and research continue to be informed by principles of Indigenous community development, and we value and seek close engagement with Community. This distinguishes us from many other academic units in that we aim to imple-ment projects that address Community priorities rather than projects that are driven primarily by the academic inter-ests of researchers.

As you will see in this newsletter, the beginning of the year had been a busy period. Students returned to the univer-sity, teaching started for the year, and Onemda staff were heavily engaged in the 4th ASSA Indigenous Postgraduate Summer School (see page 4).

The Unit has grown in size and complex-ity over the past seven years and, as we enter the phase of young adulthood as an organisation, hopefully we have grown in maturity as well. There will be opportunities for input into our teaching and learning, research and community development programs as the year goes on, and we hope to continue to listen and learn from the depth of knowledge within the Community.

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Contents Onemda update 1CRC for Aboriginal Health Update 2-3Summer School for Indigenous Students 4MSH (Aboriginal Health) applications 4CDAMS Project update 5Ethics report launch 6Community Partners’ Day 7 Community profile 7New staff 8-9Indigenous Traineeships —Apply Now! 10Social work practice grant 10Our latest publications 11

Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health Update

Melbourne Showcase The CRC for Aboriginal Health (CRCAH) will be holding a Melbourne Showcase on Tues-day 30 May 2006. This will be an opportunity for Community members, policy makers and researchers to get an idea of which CRCAH projects might be relevant in Victoria and to think about how they might get involved.

Convocation VenueEach year the CRCAH has a convocation to bring together people involved with its work to talk about what is being done at a national level. This year’s convocation will be held in Adelaide on 14–16 November 2006.

New Projects EndorsedCommunity, government and research-ers have been involved in developing four project proposals in the comprehensive pri-mary health care, health systems and work-force program. In March, the CRCAH board endorsed three projects, subject to finalisation of project teams and budgets and a quality assurance process. These projects will focus around issues such as:

• models of funding, service provision and workforce arrangements that are in place in different states/territories to support delivery of primary health care services to Aboriginal people;• models currently used to support Aboriginal specific primary health care services at a regional level;• improving local quality assurance and continuing evaluation processes in Aboriginal primary health care services;• regional resources and data collections;• utilising quality assurance/ improvement tools in hospitals;• the needs of Aboriginal patients and staff in a hospital setting;• patterns of health use by Aboriginal people in urban areas; and

• continuity of care for Aboriginal patients.

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More InformationIf you would like more information about any CRCAH activities and/or resources, please contact Johanna Monk at Onemda.

T: +61 3 8344 0884 E: [email protected]

Development of Chronic Conditions ProjectsIn February, a chronic conditions industry roundtable was held in Melbourne with com-munity and government representatives from around Australia including the Victorian Abo-riginal Community Controlled Health Organi-sation and the Rumbalara Aboriginal Coopera-tive in Shepparton.

The aim of the meeting was to discuss current projects and to identify further research topics. Those topics under consideration for develop-ment into projects are: Aboriginal construct of health; health economics; chronic disease self-management; research transfer; men’s health; smoking; service mix; cardiovascular disease; and nutrition.

Shirley Godwin, our chronic conditions pro-gram manager who has been based in Mel-bourne, has resigned to take up studying Med-icine at the University of Melbourne. We would like to thank Shirley for all her work with the CRCAH and to wish her the best of luck with her studies.

L–R: Mick Gooda, Pat Anderson, Stephanie Bell, Louise Clark, Janelle Stirling and Shane Houston at CRCAH board meeting

Kevin Rowley (Onemda) and Alex Brown (Menzies) at the chronic conditions industry round-table

L–R: Mick Gooda (CEO) ,Pat Anderson (Chairperson) and Stephanie Bell at the CRCAH board meeting in March

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Master of Social Health (Aboriginal Health) . . . Mid-year applications are invitedThis is a new and unique Masters program offered by Onemda. Interested applicants should contact Shaun Ewen ([email protected]) or check out our website. Bursaries may be available through the Indigenous postgraduate bursary scheme.

The School of Population Health, in con-junction with the Australian Indigenous Studies Program and the School of An-thropology Geography and Environmental Studies (SAGES), recently hosted the 4th Academy of the Social Sciences of Austral-ia (ASSA) Summer School for Indigenous Postgraduate Students. Attended by more than 30 Indigenous higher degree students, all of whom are engaged in researching contemporary Indigenous life, culture and issues, the program encourages partici-pants to talk about their areas of study and fosters an excellent mentoring system be-tween the Indigenous students.

Led by both Indigenous and non-Indig-enous leaders and faculty from campuses and institutions around Australia, the sum-mer school focused on topics and course-work in the health sciences and related social sciences. Students, along with their supervisors, came from ten universities for the week-long program, which provides an opportunity for students to explore and fine tune thesis topics and methodologies in a stimulating and supportive setting.

Highlights included Nobel Prize winning scientist Professor Peter Doherty (Microbi-ology and Immunology) discussing career and leadership development with Indig-enous leader, Ms Kerrie Tim (Group Man-ager of Leadership Development in the Of-fice of Indigenous Policy, Canberra), in a session chaired by Dr Maggie Walter (Uni-versity of Tasmania).

Onemda’s Ian Anderson and Professor Ruth Fincher, Dean of Urban Planning at Mel-bourne’s Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, were elected by the ASSA to be co-directors of the summer school. This

Professor Ian Anderson with Laureate Professor Peter Doherty, Dr Maggie Walter and Ms Kerrie Tim with students at the 2006 ASSA Summer School for Indigenous Postgraduate Students (Photo: Michael Silver, Photonet)

Summer school for Indigenous postgraduate students

year saw the Cooperative Research Cen-tre for Aboriginal Health, Darwin, contribute to the event, which is predominantly funded through the Department of Education, Sci-ence and Training.

Developed by Onemda’s Ian Anderson and Shaun Ewen, the summer school was coor-dinated by Ms Heather Winter (SAGES). Stu-dents’ thesis topics included: an investigation of the experiences of recently released Indig-enous people and their experiences in terms of current rehabilitation programs; the adop-tion of African rap culture by young Nunga men; and a collaborative community-based analysis of Anangu song-cycle.

Participant Noritta Morseu-Diop, a fourth-year PhD student, believes the summer school gave her ‘a better grounding in my Indige-nous research methodologies and a greater understanding of the diverse Indigenous re-search methods. This helped to validate the importance of our people actively research-ing our own issues. It was such an honour to meet and spend the week with such wonder-ful and incredibly talented people.’

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As some of you may already know, the Committee of Deans of Australian Medical Schools (CDAMS) Indigenous Health Curric-ulum Project has developed a curriculum to be included in all Australian medical schools. We are now working with the medical schools to ensure that this Indigenous health curricu-lum is introduced with some controls around quality and cultural safety.

We have recently employed two new staff members to assist us with this goal. Davina Woods (CDAMS Project Officer) and Alex-is Wright (LIME, or Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education, Network Project Offic-er) will help us achieve our aim of embed-ding Indigenous health into the regular life of every Australian medical school. You can read more about Alexis and Davina on the new staff profiles on page 9. In the coming months we will undertake the following activi-ties to help us reach our goals:

• Accreditation: we are working with the Australian Medical Council (AMC), the body that accredits medi-cal schools, to ensure its standards comprehensively include Indigenous health. This will mean that when the AMC visits a medical school to ac-credit it, they will know to ask the right questions and interview the right people to get the whole story on how appropriately that medical school is implementing Indigenous health cur-riculum and student support initiatives.

• LIME Network Reference Group: the Network continues to grow, and Alexis will lead the development of this group. This will include establishing web and communications tools so that those who teach Indigenous health in medical schools nationally can be connected, and learn about, and share with others, what is working and what isn’t.

CDAMS Project grows & strengthens

• Staff Development Workshops: we will trial staff development workshops so that medical schools can ensure that those who will be implementing the curriculum have the background and support they need to be able to deliver quality teaching and learning.

• Teaching and Learning Resource Kit: we will collate materials and teaching and learning resources already in ex-istence, as well as identify gap areas, and develop a kit that will support medical school educators in their daily delivery of Indigenous health lessons.

Apart from all of the above, which is surely keeping us busy, we have begun planning for The LIME Connection II—another national convention of medical educators, Indigenous community representatives, deans, faculty administrators, medical colleges, students and workforce policy-makers—to continue professional networking and skills develop-ment. Stay tuned for details, and think about who you might like to nominate for the inau-gural LIME Awards, which will be announced at the LIME Connection II.

For further information regarding the CDAMS Project in general, please contact Davina Woods: T: +61 3 8344 0720 E: [email protected] or for enquiries regarding the LIME Network, please contact Alexis Wright: T: +61 3 8344 0828 E: [email protected]

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Report can be accessed at:

L–R: Dr Kerry Breen (AHEC) and Ms Jill Gallagher (VACCHO) with Paul Stewart and Priscilla Pyett (Onemda)

Dr Kerry Breen (AHEC) launches the Victorian Aboriginal Ethics Project Report

The Victorian Aboriginal Ethics Project Report is the result of research conducted by Onemda’s Paul Stewart and Priscilla Pyett in collaboration with the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO) and funded by VicHealth. The research aimed to find ways of giving Aboriginal people in Victoria more control of how research is be-ing conducted in our Communities.

Monday 28 November 2005 saw the launch of the Victorian Aboriginal Ethics Project Report by Ms Jill Gallagher, CEO of VACCHO, and Dr Kerry Breen, Chair of the Australian Health Ethics Committee (AHEC). Dr Rob Moodie, CEO of VicHealth was an invited guest.

The launch was attended by some of our internation-al, national and local Brothers and Sisters. It signified the importance of giving back to our Community and providing the Victorian Aboriginal Community with a tool (the report) that aims to empower Communities to become more active in the ethical review process of health research involving their Community.

The Victorian Aboriginal Ethics Project Report out-lines six models aimed at increasing Community control of research ethics and informing Communi-ties of each model’s strengths and weaknesses. The six models are:

• A Victorian Aboriginal Ethics Committee, which would include Aboriginal Elders and lay people, and would be registered with the NHMRC.

• An Aboriginal Ethics Adviser, who would monitor all aspects of the project and how it affects the Community.

• A register of trusted experts, that could be called upon on a needs basis.

• A project-specific Ethics Advisory Group, set up whenever new research is considered.

• An Aboriginal Health Research Ethics Advisory Committee.

• Aboriginal representation on Human Research Ethics Committees.

Aboriginal Communities and organisations are invit-ed to consider how these options might be useful to them.

The authors would like to thank staff from both Onemda and VACCHO, and all of the guests, for mak-ing this launch such a success.

Victorian Aboriginal Ethics Project Report

Copies of the Victorian Aboriginal Ethics Project Report can be accessed at: http://www.chs.unimelb.edu.au/koori/

Hard copies available from:Nicole Waddell T: +61 3 8344 0813E: [email protected] or Paul Stewart T: +61 3 8344 0808 E: [email protected]

Ian Anderson addresses guests at the launch

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Peter can be contacted at VACCHO on:T: +61 3 9419 3350 E: [email protected]

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Liz Cavanagh & Matt Don-icci entertain the crowd

L–R: Kevin Rowley, Karen Adams and Ian Anderson (Onemda), Tim Moore and Peter Waples-Crowe (VACCHO Policy Officer) and Bev Greet (VACCHO Sexual Health Team Co-ordinator) enjoy the gathering

On 15 December 2005, Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit and the Centre for Health and Society organised a celebration with all of our community partners.

Staff within Onemda and CHS collaborate with a range of Community organisations, their staff, clients and members, in the investigation both of the social fac-tors that impact upon health and the resultant health disparities. We highly value these partnerships and the Community Partners’ Day was an opportunity both to acknowledge these relationships and to celebrate them together.

Along with great food, terrific entertainment was pro-vided on the day by Liz Cavanagh accompanied by Matt Donicci.

Community Partners’ Celebrations

Community Profile

Peter Waples-Crowe

Peter Waples-Crowe works at the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO) as a Policy and Public Health Officer. He was born in Sydney, grew up in Wollongong (NSW) and is a descendant of the Ngarigo people of the Snowy Mountains.

Peter has been employed at VACCHO for the past couple of years but gained a lot of his interest and skills in research and public health while working on various projects with many mobs in New South Wales. He currently convenes the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander special interest group of the Public Health Association of Australia.

Peter has enjoyed working with many different Aboriginal communities through-out New South Wales and Victoria, and feels that by interacting with other mobs that you end up learning a lot about cultural protocols and the diversity that is Indigenous Australia. He is also an artist and had a solo show at the Koorie Heritage Trust in 2005.

Guests enjoy the food and entertainment

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Kevin Rowley (far right below) is a Senior Research Fellow in the Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit. He has an academic background in the biochemistry, pharmacology and, more recently, epidemiology of cardiovascular health and disease. Kevin has been involved in the evaluation of Community-directed health interventions with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people since 1994. He has local, interstate and international collaborations with academic institutions and Aborigi-nal community-controlled organisations. Kevin is currently a leader of the CRCAH Chronic Conditions Program.

Kevin’s research includes medical, biological and social aspects of heart health as they relate to Aboriginal peoples and other population groups in Australia, and the ways in which health programs can be de-signed and evaluated with all these issues considered. Because of the long-term nature of heart disease and the complex influences on heart health, the responses to this issue are also necessarily complex and long-term in nature. Through the use of biomarkers of diet and blood vessel health, social indicators and Community-level health indicators, Kevin’s research aims to identify ways of improving heart health out-comes by influencing policy, service delivery and individual behaviours. He has a strong interest in the communication of research outcomes into ways that are accessible and useful to participating Communities, service organisations and individuals.

Leah Johnston (middle below) has a background in information tech-nology, which required her to travel extensively and exposed her to Indigenous cultures and Communities in south-eastern Australia. She currently works as a Research Assistant on several projects, including the Health Indicators Project with Kevin Rowley and a number of Vic-torian Aboriginal peak bodies. Leah has a strong interest in visual and performing arts.

Rachel Reilly has recently completed a Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology. She has worked with Aboriginal community organi-

sations in the Goulburn Murray region on a project examining the role of such organisations in contributing to the health, wellbeing and strength of Communities. Rachel’s cur-rent role is as a Research Of-ficer on projects including the Heart Health Project, a health promotion and research pro-gram conducted in collabo-ration with several Commu-nity-controlled organisations. In addition to her research activities, Rachel practices as a health psychologist in the Community health sector.

New Staff

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Davina Woods is the granddaughter of a baby boy stolen in the 1880s from the Kuku Yulangi peoples of far north Queensland. Having previously lived in Brisbane and Gladstone in Queensland, she has lived on Kulin country since 1990.

An educator by trade, Davina has a Diploma of Teaching, a Bachelor of Education and a Master of Arts. Her MA thesis examined how Australian Indigenous Studies is an investment in Australia’s cultural, social and human capital.

Davina is interested in history; sociology, includ-ing education as a tool for socialisation; and, most recently, social psychology, particularly how people develop attitudes, not only towards others but also about themselves. and how unproductive mindsets can be changed.

Working collaboratively with Maori, Native Americans and people from Pacific Nations, Davina has represented Indigenous Australians internationally. Nationally she has worked on bettering employment, education and training for Indigenous Australians working in the education industry as teachers or para-professionals. Her national work has included membership of the national executive of the Australian Curriculum Studies Association. At the local level, in Gladstone, Queensland, Davina was a member of the Aboriginal and Islander Housing Cooperative’s Board. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Ilbijerri Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Theatre Cooperative based at the Art House in North Melbourne.

A family-oriented individual, Davina supports her sons’ rugby union aspirations by being the chair of the marketing and fund-raising committee of the Northern Rugby Union Football Club.

Davina’s position is as the CDAMS Project Of-ficer for the Indigenous Health Curriculum Project

Phase II. Based at Onemda, the project is focused on supporting Australian medical schools to imple-ment a nationally accredited curricu-lum framework for Indigenous health in undergraduate medicine, which was developed during phase 1 of the project.

Alexis Wright is the Coordinator of the LIME (Leaders in Medical Edu-cation) Network, which is a project of the Commit-tee of Deans of Australian Medical Schools (CDAMS) and Onemda. Alex-is will be working in one of two newly created positions to implement the Australian Medical Council accredit-ed CDAMS Indigenous Health Curriculum Framework for medical schools to develop and deliver Indigenous health content in core medical education. Alexis is a member of the Waanyi people of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria and is a firm supporter of the Indigenous rights of the region. She has worked in many different parts of the country as an Indigenous researcher, administrator and educator. Her work includes the research and planning of the Northern Territory Aboriginal Constitutional Convention, ‘Today We Talk About Tomorrow’, held in Tennant Creek in 1993, and the Kalkaringi Convention of 1998. In 2001–02, Alexis was the senior research manager on the Central Australia Indigenous Community Initiative Injury Prevention Project for Tangentyere Council, Centre for Remote Area Health and Flinders University.Alexis is the author of essays and articles that have been published in various anthologies and journals. Her novels are Plains of Promise (1997), Carpentaria (2006) and Rara Avis (in progress), and a short stories’ collection Le Pacte de Serpent (The Serpent’s Covenant, 2002). Her non-fiction books are Grog War (1998) and Croire en L’incroyable (Believing the Unbelievable, 2000), and she was the compiler and editor of Take Power (1998). Alexis regularly speaks in forums on writing in Australia and overseas, and is currently undertaking postgraduate studies at RMIT in Creative Media where her research involves the role of Indigenous story-telling.

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Both traineeships are identified as positions for an Indigenous Australian and are covered by an exemption granted under the Equal Opportunity Act 1995. Application no. A347/2005

More information plus position descriptions can be found on the Onemda website: www.chs.unimelb.edu.au/kooriThe closing date for both positions is Friday 12 May 2006.

Searching for best Social Work practices

Trainee in IT (Website Administration)

The Trainee in IT will develop skills and experience in a range of multi-media support tasks, working with staff in Onemda, while expected to complete a part-time TAFE Certificate III or Certificate IV in Information Technology (Website Administration) or an equivalent training/study program. The Trainee will report to the Centre Manger and will work on several specific multi- media projects, including assisting with the content management of websites, maintaining mailing lists, assisting with publications and other office administration tasks as required. The Trainee may also undertake work with partner organisations of Onemda.

The Centre for Health and Society has joined with Melbourne’s School of Social Work in an international ARC Linkage Grant, ‘From colonisation to conciliation: A collaborative examination of social work practice with In-digenous populations’.

The grant is inspired by the CDAMS In-digenous Health Curriculum Development Project, and led by Chief Investigators Dr Louise Harms of the School of Social Work and Ms Angela Clarke of Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit. It is partnered with Mel-bourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital (Chief Social Worker Ms Jane Miller), Mercy Hospi-tal for Women (Chief Social Worker Ms Jane Middleton) and the School of Social Work at Michigan State University (Professor Gary Anderson and A/Professor Suzanne Cross) in the United States of America. Dr John Whyte has been appointed as the Research Fellow for the project.

Trainee in Business Administration The Trainee in Business Administration will develop skills and experience in a number of administrative tasks, working with staff in the Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit located within the Centre for Health and Society (CHS), while also completing a part-time TAFE Certificate III or Certificate IV in Business Administration or an equivalent training/study program. The Trainee will report to the Centre Manager and have responsibility for processing routine financial transactions, preparing correspondence, maintaining hard copy and electronic filing systems, sorting mail and providing a reception service for CHS and Onemda.

Indigenous Traineeship Positions at Onemda

The project is based on the recognition that the social work profession, along with many others, has a complex history of working with Indigenous people and that one of the fac-tors in maintaining this problematic relation-ship is the marginalisation of Indigenous is-sues within mainstream social work practice. Building on this, the project will collaborate with Indigenous community representatives and Elders, social work practitioners and ac-ademics across Australia, the USA, Canada and New Zealand to identify how social work practice can enhance, rather than inhibit, In-digenous wellbeing.

In addition to collaborating with Indigenous communities, the project will review current social work approaches related to Indigenous issues across Australia’s twenty-two Schools of Social Work (SSW), and develop recom-mendations for the Australian Association of Social Workers and the SSW.

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Our Latest Publications

Discussion Paper 14 Terry Dunbar & Margaret Scrimgeour

Ethical Assessment of Indigenous Health Research: A Review of the Literature

Victorian Aboriginal Ethics Project Report Paul Stewart & Priscilla Pyett,

November 2005 This report outlines how Aboriginal people can have more control of the ethics of research that is carried out in, or impacts on, Aboriginal Communities in Victoria. Six different models have been developed

through Community consultations, individual interviews and focus groups with key people, and a literature review.

Discussion Papers

Community ReportsExpenditure on Health Services for Aboriginal and Torres

Strait Islander People in the Loddon Mallee Region of Victoria, 2004

Michael Otim & John DeebleMarch 2006

This report estimates expenditures on hospital, medical, pharmaceutical and community health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait

Islander people in the DHS Loddon Mallee Region in 2004.

Discussion Paper 13 Katrina Alford

Comparing Australian with Canadian and New Zealand Primary Care Health Systems in Relation

to Indigenous Populations: Literature Reveiw and Analysis

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