The university announces staff for its new Discipline of Population Health

It will, “contribute to better health and wellbeing, particularly for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities.”  Five of the six staff in the discipline have Indigenous backgrounds and/or research expertise in Indigenous health (scroll down for the appointments).

Flinders U has a long-standing engagement with Indigenous health and medicine, including in the Northern Territory where it has long-delivered the NT Medical Programme (“student placement and workforce capacity support”) and Regional Training Hub (“medical specialist and rural generalist training”).

Last month Flinders announced its new federally funded, allied health NT placements programme, which “is a testament to Flinders’ long-standing commitment to serving the Territory,” (CMM March 4).

The commitments come as Charles Darwin U develops its bid for a new medical school in the NT.