Public Health & Tropical Medicine
Kootsy Canuto
- Principal Research Fellow, Indigenous Men's Health Promotion
- kootsy.canuto@jcu.edu.au
Lynsey Brown
- Adjunct Senior Lecturer
- lynsey.brown@jcu.edu.au
Ali Isin
- Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
- ali.isin@jcu.edu.au
Kerrianne Watt
- Adjunct Professor
- kerrianne.watt@jcu.edu.au
David Plummer
- Adjunct Professor
- david.plummer@jcu.edu.au
Karla Canuto
- Professor, Indigenous Health Promotion
- karla.canuto@jcu.edu.au
Andreas Neumayr
- Adjunct Professor
- andreas.neumayr@jcu.edu.au
Jack Seaton
- Adjunct Lecturer
- jack.seaton@jcu.edu.au
Gary Jones
- Adjunct Senior Lecturer
- gary.jones1@my.jcu.edu.au
Oyelola Adegboye
- Adjunct Associate Professor
- oyelola.adegboye@jcu.edu.au
Community-led Health Promotion in the Torres Strait
Throughout the isolated communities of the Torres Strait (Zenadh) the rates of chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes and
chronic renal failure are skyrocketing. During invited community visits in 2023, we confirmed that health restoration is an
urgent priority for Maluilgal (the tribal people of the Maluilgau region – Badu, Mabuiag and Moa Islands). Tribal leads have
initiated a movement called Kikirriu dan Walmai (KDW), which means “our health is resurrected”. KDW will be led by a team
chosen by the Tribal leads and who will honour and respect the cultural governance and protection required to meet the
KDW objectives. As a Torres Strait Islander researcher and recognised national leader in Indigenous health promotion and
building Indigenous research capacity, I have been endorsed by Tribal leads of KDW to work with stakeholders and Maluilgal
to lead a program of work to restore wellness. My Investigator research program will reduce chronic disease risk factors
through community-led evidence-based health restoration initiatives in the extremely remote and under resourced
communities. This will be achieved by identifying health promoting priorities for each community, building the capacity of
local community-based researchers, collaborative co-design health promoting initiatives, implement and evaluate the
initiatives and the translation of knowledge.
The evaluation of restorative health initiatives will include anthropometric and metabolic risk markers, such as weight, blood
pressure and cholesterol and measures of social, cultural and emotional wellbeing. These initiatives will provide evidence to
support the upscaling and transfer of the processes to other communities of Zenadh and beyond. Anticipated outcomes will
be the research activity training and upskilling of local Maluilgal community members and the implementation and evaluation
of sustainable effective health initiatives that will restore well-being to their communities.
Evaluation of the Allied Health Rural Generalist Program 2017-2019
- 2021
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Researchers:Katrina BirdSue Devine
Treatment of the lung injury of drowning: a systematic review
- 2021
- BioMed Central
- Researchers:Sue DevineRichard Franklin
A scoping review of female drowning: an underexplored issue in five high-income countries
- 2021
- BioMed Central
- Researchers:Sue DevineRichard Franklin
Epidemiology of unintentional fatal drowning among migrants in Australia
- 2021
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Researchers:Richard FranklinSue Devine
Active Transport in the Tropics: setting the scene in Townsville
- 2017
- James Cook University
- Researchers:Jemma KingRichard FranklinJulie ParisonAnthony LeichtHelen Boon
Safer hospital infrastructure assessments for socio-natural disaster - a scoping review
- 2021
- Cambridge University Press
- Researchers:Richard Franklin
Mapping inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding in low- and middle-income countries, 2000–2018
- 2021
- Nature Publishing Group
- Researchers:Richard Franklin
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