Developing and Supporting the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Allied Health Workforce and Being a Culturally Responsive Health Practitioner

Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA) is a national, member-based Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander allied health organisation. IAHA leads sector workforce development and support to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

This presentation will focus on some of the key initiatives and strategies that IAHA is undertaking across the country to grow, support, strengthen and transform the health sector. This presentation will touch on the IAHA National Health Academy, which is developing the local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workforce in the allied health assistance sector, and the importance of the assistant workforce space for health and wellbeing outcomes.

We will introduce IAHA’s Cultural Responsiveness in Action Framework, an evidence-based framework that focuses on action-orientated and strength-based outcomes. It is aimed at critical self-reflective practice identifying one’s impact on another. We will also offer an insight of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health sector, identify current strategies being implemented nationally, and give you an insight of a IAHA’s Cultural Responsiveness in Action Framework for you to begin or continue your journey as a culturally responsive health practitioner.

This free webinar will include the above presentation and then plenty of time for Q&A and discussion.

Meet our Key Speakers:

Dr Susan Nancarrow, CEO, HealthWork International + The Allied Health Academy

Susan is an allied health professional, health services researcher, recovering academic and the Chair of the Allied Health Assistants' National Association (AHANA). Susan has more than twenty years of international health services research, expertise and analysis, with a particular interest in the health workforce, models of health service organisation and delivery and the sociology of the professions.

Jed Fraser, Indigenous Allied Health Association (IAHA)

Jed Fraser is a proud Bidjara and Mandandanji man with family and cultural connections to Southwest Queensland, particularly Charleville and Augathella. His culture, connection to Country, his family and ancestors make up who he is. He grew up on Yugerra/Jagera and Turrbal country, Meanjin (Brisbane) but now lives on the beautiful lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people in Canberra. Jed is a Senior Project Officer with Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA) where he co-ordinates programs and initiatives to grow, support and transform the allied health sector. His professional life has been in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health sector and has held a sessional academic position at QUT. Jed's qualifications include a Master of Public Health (Health Promotion), a Bachelor of Exercise Movement Science, a Diploma of Sport Development and Certificate IV in Fitness and is currently studying a Masters of Indigenous Business Leadership.

Developing and Supporting the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Allied Health Workforce and Being a Culturally Responsive Health Practitioner

Meet our Key Speakers:

Dr Susan Nancarrow, CEO, HealthWork International + The Allied Health Academy

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