Podcasts
Taking Indigenous languages seriously, with Prof Rob Amery
Dr Rob Amery
Volume 207, Issue 1: Dr Robert Amery is Head of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide. He discusses the “communication gap” and how to improve shared understandings between health professionals and remote Indigenous people. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.
Dr Lisa Whop, cervical cancer in Indigenous women
Dr Lisa Whop
Volume 206, Issue 2: 6 February, 2017. Dr Lisa Whop is a research fellow at the Menzies School of Health Research. She discusses her research on the time from abnormal Pap smear to clinical followup in Indigenous women. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell. Available as a video here.
Romlie Mokak, the Lowitja Institute
Romlie Mokak
Volume 205, Issue 1: 4 July, 2016. Mr Romlie Mokak, CEO of the Lowitja Institute, Australia's national institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research, discusses racism in the health system, Closing the Gap, Indigenous researchers and medical students, and the Institute's collaboration with The Lancet. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell. Available as a video here.
Dr Katrina Alford
Dr Katrina Alford
Volume 203, Issue 10 - 16 November, 2015. Dr Katrina Alford is a health economist who has authored a Short Report on Indigenous health expenditure in this issue of the MJA. Her findings -- that while health expenditure is rising overall, it is dropping in the Indigenous health sector -- are shocking. With MJA engagement editor, Cate Swannell. Available as a video here.
Professor Hugh Taylor
Professor Hugh Taylor
Professor Hugh Taylor is the inaugural Harold Mitchell Chair of Indigenous Eye Health in the School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne. This podcast accompanies a Perspective coauthored by Professor Taylor in this issue, “Cataract surgical blitzes: an Australian anachronism”.
MJA Centenary Series 4
Dr Lilon Bandler MBBS FRACGP MHPol
In this episode Cate is joined by Dr Lilon Bandler, senior lecturer in Indigenous health education at the Centre for Values, Ethics and Law in Medicine and the Office of Medical Education at the University of Sydney’s School of Medicine. Their conversation canvasses building the number of Indigenous Doctors, the pressure to perform on Indigenous Students and how the role of Indigenous Health Workers is changing. They also discuss the focus of Indigenous Health issues in helping close the gap,...