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I am a proud Njikena Jawuru woman from the West Kimberley, WA. I am a Co-Director of the Molly Wardaguga Research Centre, College of Nursing and Midwifery at Charles Darwin University and an emerging nationally and internationally known leader on Indigenous health with novel ideas on ensuring that First Nations Australia’s a leading the research that that sustainable impacts that improve the health and wellbeing of my people. This is supported by more than 25 years experiences working in the Indigenous health sector. I have devoted myself to be a two-way interpreter of research between the academy and First Nations people and to use research as a mechanism for social, cultural and political change. I consider myself an intellectual warrior for First Nations people and research is the tool that I undertake my warriorship.
My research is co-designed with families, communities and service providers and aims to improve health for First Nations Australians. My current research has a specific focus on ensuring that maternal and infant services are mother-child focused and are informed by an Indigenous epistemology and ontology. This involves describing and assessing the
impact of community investment by empowering First Nation communities to actively be involved to redesign health services which are cultural safe, underpinned by First Nation values and provides an operational framework of First Nation relationality and connectedness to place, people, ceremony and improved health and wellbeing outcomes.
I am the lead Chief Investigator (CIA) for the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) Birthing on Country (announced Oct 2020). The grant is for $2.5M which is CDU’s first CRE. This CRE will enable us to transform health and support services for the ‘best start in life’ for Australia’s First Nations families. To achieve this vision, First Nations ways of knowing, being and doing underpin our reform agenda that is targeting health and support services for families across the first 1,000 days (pregnancy to age two). This will enable widespread knowledge translation and implementation of Birthing on Country Services through our innovative RISE Implementation Framework: Redesign the health service; Invest in the health and research workforce; Strengthen capacity of Indigenous families; Embed Indigenous governance and control in all aspects of the service.
I have also been a Chief Investigator and Associate Investigator on a great number of grants that have been nationally competitive. To date, I have been successfully awarded (either as primary or associate investigator) numerous grants, scholarships, commissioned contracts estimated at $29.5M. The projects that I have lead and been involved have been very diverse and collaborative; for example, a web-based therapeutic program for reducing methamphetamine use randomised control trial, commissioning stronger evaluations of Indigenous health and wellbeing programs, building research capacity in First Nations researcher and community controlled health services and to better understand community preferences and returning birthing services to remote communities in the Northern Territory. Key to this success has been a long-term commitment to genuine engagement that center First Nations communities and industry partners as well as external stakeholders which values the collaborative gain of all partners.
I was recently awarded the prestigious 2019 Churchill Fellowship (due to COVID 19 this has been postponed to 2021). For this fellowship, I have been fully funded to travel to Canada to further develop international collaborations and discuss joint endeavors with researchers who are aligned with the Molly Wardaguga Research Centre goals.
I am a Commonwealth Health Minister appointment to the NHMRC Research Committee (2018-21) and NHMRC Principle Committee Indigenous Caucus (2015-18, 2018-2021) and was on the NHMRC Road Map III (2018) working group. I am also a member of NHMRC working committees i.e. reviewing NHMRC synergy grants, reviewing the Indigenous Research Excellence Criteria, NHMRC Prioritisation Committee and Indigenous Peer Review. This work provides advice and support for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Member of Council and the Chief Executive Officer of NHMRC, to ensure Australia’s major health research funding body supports culturally safe and high-impact research for First Nations peoples.
As a Njikena Jawuru female scholar, I unapologetically undertake and apply the transformative elements for research to work with First Nations people, communities and industry partners to privilege their expertise while utilizing the tools in the academy to ensure that First Nations knowledge is used to drive the research agenda, develop strength based solutions that will have facilitate a thriving and prosperous future for that First Nations people.
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