Category: Indigenous Health

  • Implementing marra ngarrgoo, marra goorri: The Victorian Aboriginal Health, Medical and Wellbeing Research Accord

    Artist: Trina Dalton-Oogjes Description by the artist: The Artwork shows the connection between Community, land and water. Bunjil and the Elders watching over the gatherings. Footprints, Emu and Kangaroo tracks are moving us forward, together, towards a new way of being.

    Led by the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO) in partnership with the Victorian Department of Health, marra ngarrgoo, marra goorri: The Victorian Aboriginal Health, Medical and Wellbeing Research Accord (‘marra ngarrgoo, marra goorri’ or the ‘Accord’) was successfully launched on Wednesday 11 October in a ceremony at Treetops, Melbourne Museum. VACCHO Executive Manager … Read more

  • Creating the right environment for success

    Creating an environment where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healthcare practitioners and researchers feel welcome and supported at work is critical to improving equality across all aspects of the healthcare sector. Initiatives to create these kinds of environments have been particularly successful at both the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Melbourne Medical School at the … Read more

  • Healing Country

    As we adapt to climate change, it’s essential that we recognise the deep knowledge First Peoples bring in managing and adapting to environments over millennia

  • ALG joins MACH Board

    As the nation celebrates NAIDOC Week, MACH welcomes the Aboriginal Leadership Group

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