Indigenous Healthcare Workers
At only eight years old, Brianna Ozies had already decided she wanted to be a doctor. The proud Djugan woman had firsthand experience of the Indigenous health gap in her hometown of Derby, so she was...
Winners for the 2025 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker and Practitioner Excellence Awards were announced at a ceremony in Darwin on Saturday.
Professor Pat Dudgeon has been honoured with an Australian Mental Health Prize. Since its foundation by UNSW Sydney in 2016, the Prize has honoured advocates, clinicians, researchers, peer workers and...
James Cook University is celebrating the homecoming of Professor Roianne West, a Kalkadunga and Djunke woman, who joins the University as Professor of Nursing and Midwifery, based on her ancestral Cou...
Courtney Smith-Garbutt of the Bullinah Aboriginal Health Service was named Rising Star in Rural/Remote Health at the 2025 National Rural and Remote Health Awards on Wednesday evening.
23-year-old soon-to-be doctor Shakayla Walley-Wihongi, with a team of scientific powerhouses, has blazed a trail in the treatment of syphilis.
Universities Australia has welcomed the federal government's decision to remove caps on Commonwealth Supported Places for First Nations medical students through the Education Legislation Amendment (In...
Fourteen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders have been named Churchill Fellows for 2025. They will travel the world to bring back ideas that strengthen culture, communities, and Country.
A chance encounter with some dear friends after a holiday in Mparntwe/Alice Springs led Queenslander Jacob Murray, a proud Noonuccal and Kombumerri man from the Quandamooka Nation, to a new chapter in...
The federal government has announced a $24.6 million investment for new cancer research grants for First Nations communities. The government, working with Cancer Australia, will allocate the funding t...
Northern Territory Primary Health Network's new 'Health Workforce Needs Assessment 2025 – GP Workforce', a report that outlines "the critical challenges and opportunities" facing primary healthc...
For CQUniversity students Gwendelyn Mick and Shontara Hill, studying health care is more than a career; it's a commitment to their community, their culture, and each other.
Southern Cross University's Birthing On Country initiative - known as SISTABIRTH - has secured the support of three regional and remote Aboriginal health services to help deliver improved maternity ca...