Cultural Safety

Creating and sharing culturally-appropriate therapeutic practice guides

Cultural Elements Project

Year granted: 2020 Organisation location: Preston, VIC Themes: Family and Community health, Cultural safety and respectful systems Project summary: VACCA provides a number of child…

Community-driven empowerment through mabu liyan

Closing the data and knowledge gap

Year granted: 2020 Organisation location: Broome, WA Themes: Community health and wellbeing, Sovereignty Project summary: This project built on the Yawuru Wellbeing Project to contribute…

Investigating cross-cultural responses to the introduction of the HPV vaccine

The aim of the project was to identify issues among parents and guardians from three cultures in Australia, as well as General Practitioners (GPs) in…

Establishing the prevalence of HPV infection – WHINURs

The human papilloma virus (HPV) is the most common viral sexually transmitted infection. The formulation of appropriate recommendations for use of prophylactic HPV vaccines in…

Putting cross-cultural policy into practice

The objective of this study was to consider 'What policies, processes and practices would increase the relevance of mainstream agencies to Indigenous and culturally diverse…

Better Indigenous Genetic (BIG) Health Services project

Project aims To work with clinical genetic health services to develop more effective models for meeting the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. …

Managing Two Worlds Together: Improving the Aboriginal Patient Journey

April 2026 update Lowitja Institute is pleased to share an update on the ongoing development of the Health Journey Mapping (HJM) and Managing Two Worlds…

Nindilingarri Cultural Health Services: health promotion evaluation

Fitzroy Crossing is more than 2500km to the north of Perth on the Fitzroy River in the tropical Kimberley region and is roughly half way…

Ethics and protocols for a family-based microbiome study and social health history project

Engaging Australia’s First Peoples in the development of ethics and protocols for a family-based microbiome study and social health history project Project Aim: To establish…

Revitalising Health for All: Learning from comprehensive primary health care experiences (Melbourne)

This small research project is part of a larger international project, the Revitalising Health For All project funded by the Teasdale-Corti Global Health Research Partnership…