Funders
Our work is supported with funds from a variety of sources, with our 'core' funds provided by the Australian Department of Health and Ageing's Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH). OATSIH also provides special funds to enhance our work in the area of social and emotional wellbeing. Our work in the area of substance use is supported by the Department’s Drug Strategy Branch. Specific research activities are supported by funds and/or collaboration from a variety of sources. These are shown below under 'Other funders'.
As well as those shown, we are grateful to:
- the National Heart Foundation of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program, whose support in the past assisted development of our sections on cardiovascular disease, physical activity and overweight and obesity; and
- the health authorities of New South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania, which, along with OATSIH, supported development of our section on nutrition.
Major funder
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Australian Department of Health and Ageing
The Department aims to achieve better health and active ageing for all Australians through the promotion, development and funding of health and aged care services for the Australian public.
Other funders
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Government of Western Australia
The Western Australian Department of Health’s Office of Aboriginal Health supports our section devoted to the heath of Indigenous Western Australians, and the Western Australian Indigenous Health Promotion Network.
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Pratt Foundation and Variety, the children's charity
The expanded features of our section on ear health and hearing, undertaken in partnership with the Menzies School of Health Research, are supported by a grant from the Pratt Foundation administered by Variety, the Children's Charity
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enHealth Council
A grant from the national enHealth Council supports the development and maintenance of a section devoted to the evidence base for Indigenous environmental health practitioners. The grant is administered by the Western Australian Department of Health's Environmental Health Directorate
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Consortium of government road safety authorities
The development of the resource on Indigenous road safety has been made possible with funds provided by a consortium comprising the Roads and Transport Authority of New South Wales, Queensland Transport, the Western Australian Office of Road Safety, the South Australian Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure the Northern Territory Department of Planning and Infrastructure, VicRoads, the ACT Department of Territory and Municipal Services and the Australian Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government.
Our host institution
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Edith Cowan University
Edith Cowan University (ECU) is a large multi-campus institution serving communities in Western Australia and a significant cohort of international students. ECU has more than 20,000 students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Approximately 4,000 of these are international students originating from over 90 countries.
We are very grateful to Edith Cowan University, which has been extremely supportive and encouraging of our work over the years since we were established in 1997. The HealthInfoNet is a part of Kurongkurl Katitjin, ECU’s Centre for Indigenous Australian Education and Research.
