Aboriginal Leadership Group

The Aboriginal Leadership Group (ALG) is an advisory committee of the board to ensure that cultural safety for Aboriginal researchers and communities are a MACH-wide priority. The committee ensures that MACH continues its focus on furthering culturally safe healthcare and health research pertaining to Victorian Aboriginal communities, who are the primary communities represented in the MACH Network. The ALG have collated references to develop a resource to promote ethical conduct of research in Indigenous health.
Ethical conduct and practice in Indigenous health research

As an advisory committee to the MACH Board, the ALG informs and guides key priorities and strategies to achieve implementation of the best research evidence into health services in line with the Victorian Aboriginal community’s needs. This will be achieved through the MACH Strategy focus areas of precision care, developing efficient healthcare solutions and nurturing future health leaders.

Chair

Uncle Graham Atkinson

Community Elder

Prof Sandra Eades

The University of Melbourne

MACH SUPPORT

Michelle Iddles

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The ALG will have oversight of the MACH Strategy in relation to its application to the Aboriginal community and will advise the MACH Board accordingly on issues of cultural safety, community engagement and strategic collaboration central to its consideration. MACH is also represented at the national-level Australian Health Research Alliance’s Indigenous Research Network (IRNet) and Capacity Building group by the ALG Chair, A/Prof Luke Burchill.

Priorities of the ALG include:

  • Advancing the cultural safety, quality and impact of Victorian Aboriginal healthcare and health research (particularly that arising from the MACH Network and its hospital affiliates)
  • Identifying opportunities for Aboriginal leadership, governance, capability and capacity building within health care and health research across MACH partners
  • Identifying opportunities to integrate Aboriginal priorities for health care and health research
  • Developing strong partnerships with the Australian Health Research Alliance (AHRA), the Indigenous Research(er) Capacity Building Network (IRNet) and the Indigenous Health Research Fund
  • Providing strategic advice to the MACH Network on Victorian Aboriginal community needs and priorities
  • Working with the other Victorian translational centres, Monash Partners and Western Alliance, and AHRA to influence Aboriginal health policy at a state and federal level.

Name: Affiliations: Bio:
A/Prof Shawana Andrews The University of Melbourne
Uncle Graham Atkinson Indigenous Elder Representative
Ms Karen Bryant Northern Health
Prof Cath Chamberlain The University of Melbourne
A/Prof Lilon Bandler The University of Melbourne, LIME
Mr Shayne Bellingham LIME
Dr Ngaree Blow The University of Melbourne
Ms Inala Cooper The University of Melbourne
Dr Angela Dos Santos Alfred Health
MsTanya Druce Western Health
Prof Sandra Eades The University of Melbourne
Dr Jacara Egan Royal Melbourne Hospital
Dr Karyn Ferguson The University of Melbourne
Dr Simon Graham Peter Doherty Institute
Dr Glenn Harrison The University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Epworth HealthCare
A/Prof Misty Jenkins WEHI
Ms Jo Luke The University of Melbourne
Dr Mishel McMahon La Trobe University
Mr Alister Thorpe The University of Melbourne
Mr Grady Walsh Royal Melbourne Hospital
Dr Crystal Williams Royal Melbourne Hospital

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