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Pandemic Influenza Containment Strategies in Aboriginal Communities

  • Research program: Prevention and early intervention
  • Project status: Completed
  • Start date: January 2010
  • Expected end date: December 2012
  • Completion date: December 2012
  • Funded by: NHMRC
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Project Description

Influenza is a serious disease with a much greater impact in Indigenous communities. This project will work with Aboriginal communities in NSW, north Qld and WA on modifying the national pandemic influenza plan to develop control strategies that are acceptable to the culture and circumstances of those communities, A template and acceptable process will then be offered to other Indigenous communities, finally leading to negotiation to modify implementation of pandemic influenza plans.

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External Project Staff
  • Chief Investigator: Richard Speare, James Cook University
  • Chief Investigator: David Durrheim, University of Newcastle
  • Chief Investigator: Adrian Miller, Griffith University
  • Chief Investigator: Komla Tsey,
  • Chief Investigator: Carmel Nelson, Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council
Project Contact

Richard Speare

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Professor Sherry Saggers
Professor
Tel: 61 (0)8 9266 1600
s.saggers@curtin.edu.au
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Sustainable Development Goals and Targets

This project aligns with the following Sustainable Development Goals and Targets:

Related Publications

Massey, P., D., Miller, A., Saggers, S., Durrheim, D., N., Speare, R., Taylor, K., A., Pearce, G., Odo, T., Broome, J., Judd, J., Kelly, J., Blackley, M. and Clough, A., R. (2011). Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and the development of pandemic influenza containment strategies: community voices and community control. Health Policy, 103, pp. 184-190. doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2011.07.004 [RJ813] View web page

Miller, A., Durrheim, D., N., Blackley, M., Broome, J., Clough, A., R., Judd, J., Kelly, J., Pearce, G., Purcell, C., Massey, P., D., Saggers, S., Speare, R., Taylor, K., A. and Odo, T. (2010). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities forgotten in new Australian National Action Plan for human influenza pandemic: "ask us, listen to us, share with us". Editorial. The Medical Journal of Australia, 193, (6), pp. 316-317. doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03939.x [RJ784] View web page