Back for the next session at @CATSINaM's #BackToTheFire conference event on Gadigal country - up first is Wiradjuri researcher/academic Professor Juanita Sherwood @CharlesSturtUni on:
Researching us back to life: decolonising our ways back to good health and wellbeing
#BackToTheFire: @WestRoianne welcomes Professor Juanita Sherwood, "close friend, colleague, mentor, warrior" - a nurse, teacher, lecturer, researcher, began in the 1980s at St Vincent's Hospital during the HIV/AIDS crisis
Professor Sherwood says she was at 2002 @CATSINaM meeting that was addressed on Cultural Safety by Maori nurse Dr Irihapeti Ramsden - "decolonisation been a part of everything I've done from that time on"
Decolonisation is about us "taking back our power, exercising our ways of knowing, being and doing, which is vital to our healthcare," says Prof Sherwood #BackToTheFire
Research has had a bad name in our communities for a very long time - Professor Sherwood on how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers/orgs/communities making monumental change now, influencing health settings/academy - "we do hold power here" #BackToTheFire
"People get hurt by not being heard. We need to listen. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been taught to listen...we hold the expertise, the way our people want to do business". Prof Sherwood #BackToTheFire
Professor Sherwood talking about a research project she did: "when you put a mother into prison, you disadvantage a whole extended family". #BackToTheFire
80pc of Aboriginal women in prison have children under 18: "the taking away of their motherhood was so devastated and led to further incarceration": Professor Sherwood #BackToTheFire@MegBastard
Research in our hands take longer because we do it properly, says Prof Sherwood talking about need for safe methods, focus on relationships. Her project demonstrated how ongoing colonisation contributed to every woman's incarceration
"Our organisations do provide the safety and respect - working with our people in prisons": Prof Sherwood #BackToTheFire
Acknowledging that you don't know something "is vital to being able to do research in a decolonising space", says Prof Sherwood.
"If your mind is busy thinking of the next question to ask, you're not listening deeply". #BackToTheFire
Seeking to be 'objective' violates Aboriginal ethics of reciprocal relationships: Prof Sherwood #BackToTheFire
Shift to 'knowledge seeker and knowledge holder' relationship versus 'coloniser and colonised': Prof Sherwood #BackToTheFire
"Make sure you provide info back to community in a way they can access and utilise further down the track," says Prof Sherwood, saying academic papers not the outcome most Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are looking to from research! #BackToTheFire
"Oral history has to be recognised," says Aunty Dulcie Flower - "just because a non-Indigenous researcher has not published on it, doesn't mean it didn't happen" #BackToTheFire
Dulcie Flower talking about "horrifying" levels still of children being taken away from mothers - "it's the nurses who are doing it" in some settings #BackToTheFire
Next up at #BackToTheFire: Melanie Briggs, Dharawal, Bidigal, Wodi Wodi Wandandian on Yuin country from @WamindaSthCoast - Bulwul Balaang (strong women)
"To ensure Aboriginal women and their families are living self-determined lives...be at the forefront of truth telling".
@WamindaSthCoast Cultural Safety is foundational, says Mel Briggs: "If it's not in a document, that document is useless for us." Notes that govt/health authorities always talking re clinical risk, but not cultural risk. Here's link to the RISE framework. #BackToTheFire
Mel Briggs talking about racism in mainstream birthing systems/processes, including fear of having children removed/supervised #BackToTheFire
"We're always being led by community," Mel Briggs says of @WamindaSthCoast work, talking about the need to honour the fight of Elders/ancestors, understand identity and culture....#BackToTheFire
"If woman are in a domestic violence situation, try and get accommodation with family because if they go into a safe house, under NSW law they are deemed homeless and face removal of their children into state care." Warning at #BackToTheFire
. @CATSINaM has a range of scholarships to be offered #BackToTheFire - "umpteen in discussion" says Leeona West.....
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The #ClimateHealthMatters #CroakeyLIVE #AusVotes2025 webinar (5-6pm AEST) will focus on regional communities’ experiences/responses to the climate health crisis, with great panel led by @AlisonVerhoeven, cc @healthy_climate
@AlisonVerhoeven @healthy_climate Despite hard work from health/medical orgs, there's been so little media/political focus on #climatehealth concerns #AusVotes2025. It's a different story at @CroakeyNews. Check all our coverage here: croakey.org/category/elect…
And so to end: final session set to begin for #MedicalRadiationSciences2025 #ASMIRTNZIMRT2025
Panel Discussion – The role of AI in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy: Expert Insights Panellists: Daniel Johnstone, Andrew Murphy, Courtney Ryder, Daniel Sapkaroski, Nick Woznitza
Moderated by Craig Rispin #MedicalRadiationSciences2025 #ASMIRTNZIMRT2025
What should we start doing? What should we stop doing? What should we continue doing? Questions to lead this panel discussion #MedicalRadiationSciences2025 #asmirtnzimrt2025
Day 3 #ASMIRTNZIMRT2025 opening in the Mammography stream, hearing about cultural safety and health equity from Lisa Te Paiho (Te Aitanga a Mahaki, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Maniapoto) is National Program Manager, BreastScreen Aotearoa #MedicalRadiationSciences2025
A familiar but important slide from Lisa Te Paiho #ASMIRTNZIMRT2025 #MedicalRadiationSciences2025
Definitely not equity of access on breast screening for Maori and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women #ASMIRTNZIMRT2025 #MedicalRadiationSciences2025
Day 2 at #ASMIRTNZIMRT2025 - starting off with a very timely session on the forthcoming national lung cancer screening program which will begin being offered to eligible patients from July 2025 - background here health.gov.au/our-work/nlcsp
Alan Malbon telling us that Cancer Australia initially proposed a two-step eligibility process: former was both age and smoking history-based, latter was through the application of a risk assessment.
#MedicalRadiationSciences2025 #ASMIRTNZIMRT2025
Later revised to: patients aged 50-70 years eligible for screening if they had a smoking history of at least 30 pack-years and either continued to smoke or had quit smoking within the past 10 years
Final session for Day 1 at #ASMIRTNZIMRT2025
#MedicalRadiationSciences2025
A focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Maori health and wellbeing.
Hearing from Lisa Te Paiho (Te Aitanga a Mahaki, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Maniapoto), BreastScreen Aotearoa & Jamaine Fraser, Te Whatu Ora Hauora Māori Services Directorate, both representing MiRO (Māori in Radiation Oncology at #ASMIRTNZIMRT2025 #MedicalRadiationSciences2025
More here re MiRO (Māori in Radiation Oncology #ASMIRTNZIMRT2025 #MedicalRadiationSciences2025
We're at the historic Aboriginal Advancement League in Naarm/Melbourne, on the lands of the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin nation for the launch of the 2025 report from the @closethegapOZ #CloseTheGap2025
The 2025 @closethegapOZ report is titled: Agency, Leadership, Reform: Ensuring the Survival, Dignity and Wellbeing of First Nations Peoples
@closethegapOZ Wominjeka: Wurundjeri Elder Uncle Tony Garvey welcomes today’s #CTG2025 launch to Country, talks about his pride in standing up for his people, in the footsteps of his Elders and ancestors, who have nurtured this land over 60,000 years.