Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet on display at the Perth Health Expo, 2001

The HealthInfoNet went on display at the Perth Health Expo, 2001, held on the Esplanade, Fremantle on 9-10 June. The Health Expo, an annual event organised by the Australian Society for Medical Research, aims to bring health and medical research to the public.

Despite some inclement weather (the start of the Expo was almost washed out!), the HealthInfoNet display attracted a considerable number of visitors. Sam Burrow and Neil Thomson demonstrated the HealthInfoNet‘s Internet site and encouraged people to have a ‘play’ on the Internet.

One of the most interested visitors was Dr. Alan Bernstein, President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The CIHR, Canada’s premier federal agency for health research, has 13 ‘virtual’ institutes, one of which is the Institute of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health. Dr Bernstein was particularly interested in how the HealthInfoNetundertakes its important task of making published, unpublished and specially-developed material about Indigenous health freely accessible to policy makers, service providers, researchers, students and the general community.