A ground-breaking $1.5m project developed in partnership between the Sax Institute and three NSW Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs) will support Aboriginal people in living longer and healthier lives. Working in partnership with Aboriginal communities, the project will evaluate and enhance prevention programs that, in contrast to many current initiatives, are centred around Aboriginal … Read more
The Sax Institute is proud to join the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community in celebrating NAIDOC Week 2022, and expresses solidarity with its aim to achieve a just and healthy future for all Aboriginal people. The theme for this year’s NAIDOC Week, which runs from Sunday 3 July to Sunday 10 July, is ‘Get … Read more
A new study has found Aboriginal families in urban and regional New South Wales regularly experience food insecurity and has identified five key contributing factors that need to be addressed. The research – led by Aboriginal Doctoral researcher Simone Sherriff and senior researcher Sumithra Muthayya from the Sax Institute – is based on collaborative work … Read more
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The Secured Unified Research Environment (SURE) is an online workspace for analysing and sharing health data from many sources, including hospitals, Medicare and cancer registries.SURE puts the right data in the right hands – offering custodians a flexible way to share health data with the research community, while also giving researchers access to pre-approved linked … Read more
The past few years have seen a growing interest across the research and policy worlds in the concept of co-production. This is a model of research in which researchers and key stakeholders collaborate, bringing different expertise to address shared problems. Key stakeholders can be patients, the public, clinicians, service providers or policy makers who work together with researchers to develop the agenda, design and implement the research, and interpret the results.
This year’s National Reconciliation Week, which kicks off on Wednesday, 27th May, celebrates a milestone: it is the twentieth anniversary of the momentous reconciliation walks of 2000, when many thousands Australians came together to walk on bridges and roads across the nation to show their support for a more reconciled country. This year’s theme – … Read more
A new era of community-led health research is set to begin this year, with two more Aboriginal Medical Services (AMSs) teaming up with the Sax Institute for ground-breaking research into healthy Aboriginal ageing.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers are leading research that empowers Indigenous women to share their stories of health and wellbeing. But what happens when health researchers relive the trauma of their participants?
Aboriginal communities have long called for research methods that embrace Aboriginal leadership and expertise, and challenge traditional researcher-driven approaches. But how do we get it right?
