Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health
The Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health (CRCAH) is a partnership between Aboriginal people, communities and organisations, health policy makers, planners and service delivery organisations, and educational and research institutions. It supports research that will lead to improvements in Aboriginal health. Like all CRCs, the CRCAH seeks to make links between industry and research and promotes research transfer - getting research findings into policy, practice and service delivery. The CRCAH is funded between 2003 and 2010.
The University of Melbourne is one of the 12 core partners of the CRC for Aboriginal Health. Professor Terry Nolan, Head of the School of Population Health, represents the University of Melbourne on the CRCAH Board. The CRCAH's Research Director is Professor Ian Anderson, Director of the Centre for Health and Society. Professor Anderson oversees the CRCAH's research direction, and staff at the Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit work on various research projects in collaboration with researchers from other CRCAH partners.
Each partner of the CRCAH has a Link Person who liaises between each organisation and the CRCAH. The Link Person is the first point of contact for each partner. Link people attend regular meetings with the CRCAH staff where problems or suggestions can be raised. Paul Stewart is the Link Contact Person for the University of Melbourne
The CRCAH has made the following contributions to the University of Melbourne:
• Funding projects and scholarships
• Support for in-kind projects such as assistance attending conferences, promoting events, and funding publications.
• Connecting researchers with projects across Australia through the CRCAH networks.
• Holding a Melbourne Showcase where researchers had an opportunity to present their work to researchers and community members
• Occasional University of Melbourne meetings to update staff, students and stakeholders on the CRCAH.
• Regular distribution of fortnightly bulletin and the distribution of the Gwalwa-Gai newsletter every two months, to keep all stakeholders up to date with Aboriginal health research activities and issues.
More information about the CRCAH programs, projects, profiles, publications and events can be found at www.crcah.org.au. Please go to the website to subscribe to the Gwalwa-Gai newsletter.
Staff, students and local stakeholders who would like to be kept updated about the CRCAH (via the fortnightly bulletin, and other means) or who have specific questions or feedback about the CRCAH, should contact the University of Melbourne’s Link Person, Paul Stewart. Paul is based at the Centre for Health and Society and can be contacted on either 03 8344 0808 or pjstew@ unimelb.edu.au.