The CRC for Aboriginal
Health Capacity Development Strategy includes the
following objectives:
- Aboriginal people are encouraged and supported to undertake
studies within the CRC for Aboriginal Health community through
Vocational Education and Training and undergraduate and
postgraduate studies;
- a larger workforce of highly skilled Aboriginal
researchers;
- a health research workforce carrying out high-quality,
high-impact, culturally appropriate research in Aboriginal
health.
The CRC for
Aboriginal Health is committed to providing career pathways for
Aboriginal people to get into health research, and also to train
non-Aboriginal people to be skilled in working in Aboriginal health
research. The following education and training
programs at a number of levels support these objectives.
Scholarships
The CRC for Aboriginal Health offers a range of scholarships at
honours, masters and doctoral levels to encourage Aboriginal
students to enter the health research sector. It is expected that
there will be no more calls for scholarships in the lifetime of the
CRC for Aboriginal Health.
To read about current and past scholarship holders, student
profiles.
Traineeships
The small number of Aboriginal students completing Year 12 means
there are few with the qualifications to enter postgraduate
research training. Traineeships provide a way for many more
Aboriginal people to start on the pathway into health research.
Traineeships are a partnership between the CRC for Aboriginal
Health, its core partners and registered training organisations.
One-year traineeships are available to Aboriginal people in areas
including health services, laboratory technicians, information
technology and small business. They might lead to Vocational
Education and Training qualifications in a health-related
area
Cadetships
The CRC for Aboriginal Health cadetship program is a partnership
between the CRC, its core partners and the National Indigenous
Cadetship Program, which is administered by the Department of
Employment and Workplace Relations.
It is an undergraduate study program that is open to Indigenous
people who are enrolled, or who are planning to enrol, for
full-time study for their first degree. Cadets receive a living
allowance and a work placement, plus mentoring.
Courses
While the CRC for Aboriginal Health does not directly fund courses,
its research partners offer courses in Indigenous health. An
example of the range of courses can be seen in some of the courses
that have been endorsed by the CRC for Aboriginal Health as
in-kind
courses.
Flinders University:
- Teaching and learning topics in Indigenous health in Central
Australia;
- Chronic Condition Self Management Education and training for
Aboriginal Health Workers (and others working in Aboriginal health
programs);
- Graduate Certificate in Health: Diabetes Management
Course;
- Remote Health Practice Program.
Menzies School of Health Research:
- Public Health Coursework Program;
- Social Determinants of Indigenous Health Short Course.
The University of Melbourne:
- Masters of Social Health (Aboriginal Health);
- Integration of Indigenous health into Masters of
Psychiatry/Masters of Psychiatric Medicine.
The University of Queensland:
- Bachelor of Applied Health Science (Indigenous Health).
For the above courses and other courses related to Indigenous
health, we recommend that you go to the websites of our
research partners. Future and current Indigenous students should go
to the Indigenous students’ support units within the
universities.
