Aboriginal Leadership Group

Priorities of the ALG include:

• Advance the cultural safety, quality and impact of Victorian Aboriginal healthcare and health research across the MACH partnership
• Identify opportunities for Aboriginal leadership, governance, capability and capacity building within healthcare and health research across MACH partners
• Provide advice to the MACH Board on Victorian Aboriginal community needs and priorities and identify opportunities to integrate these into healthcare and health research
• Provide guidance on implementation of marra ngarrgoo, marra goorri: The Victorian Aboriginal Health, Medical and Wellbeing Research Accord across MACH partners
• Foster the development of health services research through processes led by Aboriginal people working across the MACH health service network
• Aim to ensure that Intellectual Property and cultural knowledge is held by the owner for research across MACH partners involving Aboriginal participants or researchers

Note: The ALG Executive Committee chooses to primarily focus on health care and health research pertaining to the Victorian Aboriginal communities as the MACH network spans across lands for which Victorian Aboriginal communities are the Traditional Custodians. The Committee understands that research conducted across the MACH Network may extend nationally and internationally, and may include other Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Communities.