Indigenous Medical Professionals
Cancer Care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples on the Gold Coast will be strengthened by the appointment of McGrath Cancer Care Nurse, Kayalia Marks, a proud Yuwaalaraay woman and exper...
Curtin University has marked a significant moment for Aboriginal health and education with the graduation of three Indigenous doctors. Jaaron Davis, Daisy Alps and Arkayla McPhee have completed the fi...
In a bright new building designed to shape the future of health in the Northern Territory, Jobe Bonney stood quietly among leaders, lecturers and his fellow students.
Research from the National Centre for Healthy Ageing's Living Labs Research Program, led by Associate Professor Ayse Zengin from Monash University, has identified unique perspectives and beliefs on bo...
A Pilbara-based Aboriginal health practitioner has been awarded a prestigious scholarship to undertake further study in Indigenous research. Sharon Lockyer, a proud Nyul Nyul woman from Beagle Bay, is...
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...
Rates of dementia in remote and rural Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are among the highest recorded globally - and by 2051, the number of First Nations peoples over 50 living with d...
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland announced on Tuesday that Dr Natalie Netzler has secured a prestigious Mana Tūānuku Research Leadership Fellowship worth $1.
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...
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...