Indigenous researchers appointed to the NHMRC’s Research Committee
Current topicThe following summary has been adapted from the 23 June 2003 Ministerial media release.
Two prominent Indigenous researchers, Dr Sandra Eades of the Menzies School of Health Research and Associate Professor Jacinta Elston, of James Cook University, have been recently appointed to the National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) Research Committee.
The NHMRC’s Research Committee is responsible for the allocation of funds from the Government’s Medical Research Endowment Account, to facilitate health and medical research and training in Australia.
The Federal Minister for Health and Ageing, Senator Kay Patterson, announced the appointments of Dr Eades and Associate Professor Elston. She commented that:
‘Their knowledge of Indigenous health issues and their experience in research will be invaluable as the NHMRC implements the outcomes of the Research Agenda Working Group’s Road Map for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research.’
Dr Eades has been a member of Project Grants Committee, Chair of the previous Research Committee’s Indigenous Health Research Panel (Projects) and member of the joint OATSIH/SRDC Research Agenda Working Group (RAWG). Dr Eades is a well-established Indigenous researcher with links throughout Australia. Dr Eades is currently a member of the reference group for ‘Mapping Australian Science and Innovation System’. Based at the Menzies School in Darwin she is a member of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Committee of the Northern Territory.
Associate Professor Elston is based at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Queensland. Her research interests include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce education and development, health priorities for Indigenous peoples and breast cancer in Indigenous women for which she currently holds grants from the Kathleen Cunningham Foundation. She has been an expert reviewer for NHMRC and a member of the joint OATSIH/SRDC Research Agenda Working Group (RAWG).
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