• Sharing Our Stories

  For the Fitzroy Stars Football Club, football is more than a game. The club nurtures a culture that promotes healthy lifestyles and offers pathways to employment. Its just one local Koori organisation in Melbourne working to benefit the social and emotional wellbeing of community members.   Such work has been documented in a new film, Sharing Our Stories, Building on Our Strengths produced by Onemda Vic Health Koori Health Unit and the faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences. Click on the link to listen to the Sharing Our Stories podcast.

• The knowledge economy and Aboriginal health development
  

  The University of Melbourne, Dean's lecture series May 2008
  Synopsis: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd recently pledged to close the Indigenous health gap by 2030. A fundamental step in the process of addressing health and social disadvantage is the production and exchange of knowledge. The university sector has a key role in developing Indigenous health knowledge, as the basis for innovation, workforce development and evidence-based policy and practice. However, if this role is to be fulfilled, universities need to change their approach to development of the health workforce, research and health information systems, and capacity exchange with Indigenous communities.A strong advocate of Aboriginal-led health initiatives for Indigenous people, Ian Anderson has worked in Aboriginal health for 19 years as a health worker, educator and general practitioner. In this presentation he will illustrate approaches to this challenge by drawing on examples of work being undertaken both at the University of Melbourne and elsewhere. Click on the link to listen to the podcast on the Knowledge Transfer website within the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.

• Researching Indigenous Health in Australia and New Zealand

The University of Melbourne's Up Close Podcast number 48, September 2008 - download podcast or transcript here
This podcast is a wide-ranging conversation with Ian Anderson and Assoc. Prof. Papaarangi Reid, Tumuaki (Maori Dean) in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland , New Zealand. Topics discussed included the role of universities in educating Indigenous health professional, and in educating non-Aboriginal Australians about Aboriginal health; Aboriginal health disadvantages, but also health gains made over the last couple of decades; the evolution of the Aboriginal community controlled health sector; Indigenous health research and statistics here and in New Zealand, among other topics.