Onemda host several important national teaching and learning projects.

* Indigenous Public Health Curriculum Projects

Onemda in partnership with the Institute for Koorie Education at Deakin University and funded by the Public Health Education and Research Program of the Department of Health Ageing (Commonwealth) is engaged in a long term project to develop Indigenous public health capacity. This has involved two major projects:

• (1) A PHERP Innovations Project: " Innovations in the design and delivery of curricula on Indigenous Australian public health for: (i) existing PHERP programs; and, (ii) Indigenous Australian student cohorts" (2003–05).

• (2) A PHERP Contested Round Funding Project: " Indigenous Public Health Capacity Development " (2006 – 2008)

  Both projects are directed towards the development of public health capacity in Aboriginal health. Both are concerned with developing the capacity of non-Aboriginal people working in this sector, and, most importantly, developing pathways for Aboriginal people into health professional training at all levels.

• Medical Deans Indigenous Health Project
  
  The Medical Deans Australia New Zealand (formerly CDAMS, the Committee of Deans of Austral ian Medical Schools), has partnered with the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing ( DoHA) to implement the Indigenous Health Project, which is proudly hosted by Onemda.
  The major aim of Phase 1 of the Project was to develop a nationally agreed curriculum framework for the inclusion of Indigenous health into core medical curricula.
  Phase 2 of the Project will see medical schools supported in terms of their development and implementation of Indigenous health content in their curricula, using the curriculum framework as a guide.
  
  
• The Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) Network
  The Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) Network is being developed by the Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand through their Indigenous Health Project, and is managed by the  Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit. 
  
  
• From Colonisation to conciliation: A collaborative examination of social work practice with Indigenous populations.
  
  This project makes a major contribution to the strengthening of Australia's social and economic fabric by contributing to Indigenous wellbeing. It will bridge the gap between the needs and rights of Indigenous families and communities,and social work understandings and practices in relation to these needs and rights. The practice framework will ensure that social workers practice in more culturally appropriate ways, thus redressing some of the fundamental difficulties between Indigenous and non Indigenous peoples. The project directly contributes, therefore, to the major national research priority of promoting  and maintaining good health. This project is funded by an ARC grant.
  
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