Onemda staff lead and/or contribute to a wide variety of projects, ranging from large and nationally significant to small and community-driven. Below we have listed our current and past projects thematically with links to project summaries for more information. In addition to these thematic areas, overarching aims of community development, capacity development and knowledge exchange are common to most projects.

ALL THEMES:

• Aboriginal Health Policy
• Research processes and health information systems
• Aboriginal Community Development and Health
• Aboriginal Health Workforce
• Determinants of health (from health care to social): identification, intervention and evaluation

Also see Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Tobacco Control projects and student projects

LIST OF ONEMDA PROJECTS BY THEME:

THEME: Aboriginal health policy

Current Projects:

• International comparative analysis of Indigenous health performance measurement
• Indigenous health rights
• Examining a core assumption of policy and services for older Indigenous Australians

Past Projects:

• Indigenous health in a fragmented policy environment: The Victorian case
• Workshop on Economics and Indigenous Australian Health
• ABCDE: The policy environment

THEME: Research processes and health information systems

Current Projects:

• A mortality profile of Victoria's Aboriginal (and non-Aboriginal) children 1998-2008 using an innovative method and research process
• Aboriginal identification in administrative and statutory databases in Victoria that describe infant, child and young people’s health
• Accreditation and quality systems for Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services
• Support systems for quality Indigenous primary health care
• Developing Sustainable Aboriginal Health Research Practice
• NATSISS Family Violence Analysis

Past Projects:

• Designing a Victorian Aboriginal Child Health, Development and Wellbeing Survey
• Promoting ethical research with Indigenous communities
• Victorian Aboriginal Ethics Project
• VACCHO Advice to researchers: a web-based resource
• Models of community engagement and knowledge transfer - Universities working with and for Communities
• Collaborative participatory research in Aboriginal health
• Building the capacity of local Aboriginal Communities to develop population health initiatives
• Ethics of Aboriginal health research (NHMRC)
• Review of the Partnership Between mainstream and Indigenous Organisations in the Victorian Indigenous BBV/IDU Training Project

THEME: Aboriginal Community Development and Health

Current Projects:

• Resource development for the Improving care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Patients (ICAP) Program
• Good News Stories from Koori Maternity Services
• Making healthy choices for ourselves: Partnerships for healthy eating and physical activity in Aboriginal Communities

Past Projects:

• Billabong Evaluation Project
• We can like research… Koori Health Research Workshops
• From Mainstream to Margins Conference capacity development support
• Ngernila Koories Kila Degaia (Listen up to Koories Speak about Health): Oral history project

THEME: Aboriginal health workforce

Current Projects:

• Capacity Development in Indigenous Public Health
• The Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) Network
• Multisite Evaluation of Indigenous Health Teaching in Medicine
• NHMRC Short Term Exchange – Process Evaluation of Indigenous Health Teaching
• From Colonisation to Conciliation: A collaborative examination of social work practice with Indigenous populations

Past Projects:

• Medical Deans Indigenous Health Project
• Kulin Wellbeing at Coranderrk: An online role-play
• Curriculum Innovations in Indigenous Australian Public Health

THEME: Determinants of health (from health care to social): identification, intervention and evaluation

Current Projects:

• Improving the culture of hospitals
• Reducing smoking amongst pregnant Aboriginal Women in Victoria: an holistic approach
• Building and supporting community led partnerships to respond to Indigenous family violence in Victoria
• A framework for addressing ethnoracial discrimination in Victoria
• Constructing spatially sensitive anti-racism templates
• Predicting heart disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (Heart Health Follow Up - NT)
• Health Indicators Project
• Improving Mainstream Diabetes Care for Urban Indigenous Australians
• Improving access to hepatitis C treatment services for disadvantaged groups - recognising and responding to hepatitis C in Indigenous communities in Victoria
• VAHS young people's project
• Evaluating practice to reduce discrimination affecting culturally and linguistically diverse communities
• Building capacity of Indigenous Family Support Workers (FSWs) in Victoria
• ACE Prevention: Indigenous Health

Past Projects:

• A Demographic and Socio-medical History of the Aboriginal People of Victoria, 1800–2000: Colonisation and Epidemiological Transition
• Healthy pregnancies, healthy babies for Koori communities
• Racism and the Health of Indigenous Australians
• Identifying Psychosocial Mediators of Health among Indigenous Australians
• Developing nutrition and physical activity guidelines and interventions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
• Use of emergency departments by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
• STI/BBV prevention and treatment & Koori people in prison
• Trends in Indigenous Chronic Disease Death Rates in the Northern Territory

Also see Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Tobacco Control projects and student projects