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Apply now for our 2025 scholarship opportunities
Lowitja Institute is delighted to open our 2025 suite of scholarships open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and early career researchers. Scholarship rounds are offered across three categories:...
Lowitja Institute 4th International Health and Wellbeing Conference 2025
Our 4th International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference is fast approaching. Join us from 16–19 June 2025 on Kaurna Country in Adelaide, South Australia, for an inspiring gathering of leaders,...
Discussion paper: Cultural Safety in Australia
Lowitja Institute recently published a new discussion paper that highlights the critical need to improve access to quality healthcare, addressing the social determinants of health, and elevating the importance of...
Lowitja O’Donoghue Foundation celebrates second anniversary
On 1 August 2024, Lowitja Institute’s Board, management and staff respectfully acknowledge and remember our namesake and co-patron, the late Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue AC CBE DSG on what would have...
Lowitja Institute partners with the Medical Journal of Australia to privilege Indigenous voices
Today the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) will release a special issue that highlights and recognises Indigenous leadership and excellence in health and medical research. This inaugural collaboration between Lowitja...
Chair Selwyn Button pays tribute to health advocate Cleveland Fagan
On behalf of the Board of Directors and staff at Lowitja Institute, we offer our sincerest condolences to the Fagan, Singleton and Malcolm families, along with the broader community of...
WA Police and WA Country Health Service apologise for 2014 death in custody
WARNING: This post contains the name of an Aboriginal person who died in police custody Ten years after an Aboriginal woman died in custody from untreated injuries, Western Australian authorities...
Supporting research on HIV and viral hepatitis: apply now for a GLOWS Medium or Large Research Grant
Applications are now open for Round 1 of the GLOWS Medium and Large Research Grants. The Guiding Local Opportunities for Wellbeing (GLOWS) Seeding Grant stream aims to provide Aboriginal and...
Discussion paper: Ethics in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research
Lowitja Institute’s latest policy discussion paper, Ethics in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research, has identified a suite of reforms needed to ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
Connection, culture, and comprehensive support: reshaping kinship care in Southeast Queensland
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Service (ATSICHS), based in Brisbane, is engaged in an ambitious research project through which it seeks to reshape the way that Aboriginal...
