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The Poche Centre for Indigenous Health Network Meeting

The Poche Centre for Indigenous Health Network Meeting. July 2013. Director. Kylie Gwynne. The Poche Centre for Indigenous Health. Three-year Strategy: Healthy kids, Healthy teeth, Healthy hearts. Background Salkeld Review 2012 Appointment of Director

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The Poche Centre for Indigenous Health Network Meeting

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  1. The Poche Centre for Indigenous Health Network Meeting July 2013 Director Kylie Gwynne

  2. The Poche Centre for Indigenous Health Three-year Strategy: Healthy kids, Healthy teeth, Healthy hearts • Background • Salkeld Review 2012 • Appointment of Director • Implementation of Recommendations from the Salkeld Review • Key elements • Building on foundations, expanding in all areas • Linking all of the activities of the Poche Centre to the Strategy • Funding research across health-related disciplines • Establishing Poche Scholars in each of the health disciplines and in health economics • Creating certainty (3 years) and mutuality for all service delivery arrangements • Integrating opportunities for students • Establishing new governance arrangements • Developing a policy voice

  3. The Poche Centre for Indigenous Health Governance • Board - Accountability • To provide advice, direction and accountability • Meet quarterly • Key Thinkers Forum – Policy Voice • To consider contemporary research and issues in Indigenous health • Meet three times/year • Executive Academic Working Group – Research • To provide advice on development and implementation of the Poche Centre research strategy • Meet twice/year • Poche Clinicians/Scholars Exchange – Clinical services • To provide advice on opportunities, issues and challenges of providing health services • Meet twice/year

  4. The Poche Centre for Indigenous Health Three-year Strategy: • We provide services with communities in each of our priority areas • Healthy kids – speech pathology, occupational therapy, ENT • Healthy teeth – oral health promotion, preventative dental, dental treatment • Healthy hearts – visiting cardiology service including portable echo machine

  5. Three key priorities: healthy kids, healthy teeth, healthy hearts

  6. Research We support research by: • Funding research projects • Providing scholarships, supporting higher research degree students and post-Doctoral Fellows • Developing alliances with established research teams and supporting researchers in Aboriginal health symposia • Seeking the advice of the Poche Executive Academic Working Group • Hosting Aboriginal health research forums • Hosting regular Poche Clinician/Poche Scholar exchange meetings • Joint collaborations.

  7. Research Funding • We are investing in five post doctoral research positions for the next three years • Health economics • Health sciences • Nursing/midwifery • Dentistry • Public health • We are supporting three scholarship recipients • Phd and Masters for the Lililwan Project at Fitzroy Crossing, WA • Mphil in midwifery

  8. Research Research Priorities • Over the coming three years we will invest in research in the following areas: • Health economics • Oral health • Preventing and treating heart disease • New approaches in allied health and multidisciplinary practice • Program evaluation • Community capacity building • Children’s health including social and emotional well being • E-medicine • Culturally competent service delivery.

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