Hospitals and Healthcare

High-potential and gifted Indigenous students are focusing on academics and culture in a program that is opening career paths for the next generation.

The UN has twice called on Australia to dismantle its indefinite detention system for people with cognitive impairments and mental illness, which disproportionately affects Indigenous people.

Appointed head of the incoming administration’s task force on health equity, the Yale University scientist “is not sitting in her ivory tower.”

There is almost no research that is privileging the voices of Aboriginal women and communities in neonatal care

A safe home, a working fridge and access to transport are all needed before western medicine has a chance of working in the long term. But a new way of providing care can help.

In the remote heart of Australia, a small Indigenous-run community group is leading the way in helping treat people "on country".

Researchers call for more spending and shift in health messaging after discovering figures were underestimated by more than 50%

The Wiradjuri woman’s cousin, author Anita Heiss, wants the NSW health system to improve its treatment of Indigenous patients.

Only looking at the size of "the gap" doesn't tell us anything about how things are going for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Instead, it may hide the progress that is happening and decrease people's willingness to adopt healthy practices.