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Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:
Social determinants of indigenous health.
Bibliography.
Includes index.
ISBN 978 1 74175 142 0.
1. Aboriginal Australians Health and hygiene Social
conditions. I. Carson, Bronwyn.
362.849915
Index by Garry Cousins
Set in 11/14 pt Berkeley by Midland Typesetters, Australia
ISBN-13: 9781741751420 (pbk)
Ian Anderson currently holds the Chair in Indigenous Health at the University of Melbourne, and is the Research Director for the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health. He has been a full-time research academic since 1998, when he established the Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit with external funding from the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation and the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. Ian has worked in Aboriginal health for some 20 years in a number of clinical/health care and administrative/policy roles. He has a long-standing interest in issues of health policy, identity, representation and theory development in the social sciences.
Ross Bailie is a National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellow based at Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin. His current research is focused on improving primary-level health services and environmental health in Indigenous communities. He trained at the University of Cape Town and has worked for several years as a clinician in rural general practice in New Zealand and in accident and emergency wards in South Africa.
Fran Baum is Head of Department and Professor of Public Health at Flinders University. Her numerous publications relate to aspects of research and evaluation in community health, theories of health promotion, healthy cities, social capital and health promotion. She is a commissioner on the World Health Organization commission on the Social Determinants of Health and program leader for the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health Social Determinants research program.
Paul Burgess is a remote medical practitioner working in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. His career in Indigenous health began in 1995 with his involvement in a study demonstrating the health benefits of homelands in central Australia. In 2003 he led a scoping study exploring the health benefits of Indigenous natural and cultural resource management. He is undertaking a PhD through the Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, on preventive health services in a remote Indigenous community.
Bronwyn Carson has a background in psychology, human biology and public health, and has worked in a diverse range of research-related roles at the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin. She has a longstanding interest in the social determinants of health, and has been an active participant in thinking about the health of Indigenous people in this context. She has a strong belief that leadership and language can be powerful tools to build social cohesion and a shared vision in contemporary Australian society.
Richard D. Chenhall is a National Health and Medical Research Council Research Fellow at the Menzies School of Health Research, specialising in medical anthropology. He is currently funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council Fellowship in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research to examine best practice guidelines for evaluating Indigenous residential alcohol and drug programs (#323248). Richard has been engaged in a number of projects related to Indigenous health in Australia and has taught at the Menzies School of Health Research, the London School of Economics and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Kathleen Clapham is an Aboriginal Australian who has worked in Indigenous health research and education for the past thirteen years. She has a PhD in Anthropology, and is employed as Senior Research Fellow at the George Institute for International Health, University of Sydney. Her research interests include injury prevention in Indigenous communities, race and health inequalities, and Indigenous health workforce development. The focus of her current research is the development of resiliency-based interventions to prevent injury and promote safety among Aboriginal children and youth in New South Wales.
Terry Dunbar is an Indigenous Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, Health and Science at the Charles Darwin University. She is currently a member of the National Health and Medical Research Council Australian Health Ethics Committee (AHEC) and a doctoral candidate in the field of Public Health and Research Ethics. She is involved in establishing a research program in the Northern Territory that concentrates on approaches to research which address key issues raised by the agenda for Indigenous research reform in Australia.
Dennis Gray is one of the National Drug Research Institutes two Deputy Directors, and heads the Institutes Indigenous Australian Research Program. He has conducted numerous research projects in the area and is particularly concerned with building the research capacity of individual Indigenous people and Indigenous community-controlled organisations. His research has had practical outcomes for Indigenous people at the local, state/territory and national levels, and his most recent work has focused on alcohol and other drug use, including patterns of use, liquor licensing, the supply and promotion of alcohol to Aboriginal people, and the evaluation of Aboriginal intervention programs.
Natalie Gray is a graduate of both medicine and law and completed a Master of International Public Health (Hons) from Sydney University in 2005. Natalie is currently undertaking specialty training in public health medicine and is a TB Medical Officer at the Northern Territory Centre for Disease Control. She is also Project Manager for the revision of the
