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SESSION 103: <br/>Global health informatics

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Saturday, July 8, 2023

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

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Workshop

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This session contains one 40 minute workshop.

Workshop: Best practice in digital health research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

This workshop is an opportunity to engage with the Indigenous Health Team from CSIRO’s Australian e-Health Research Centre (AeHRC). Through established partnerships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Organisations, the Indigenous Health Team are exploring the feasibility of digital health to complement existing models of care for significant health priorities including hypertension and gestational diabetes. A relational approach to research partnerships by the team prioritizes respect, fosters co-design and local capacity building. CSIRO’s Indigenous Health Team are also leading a program of research to determine best practice in digital health with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Development of the best practice framework draws on scientific literature, Delphi processes and community stakeholders to ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people determine the cultural safety and relevance of digital health interventions.

This workshop will include key presentations and interactive segments designed to stimulate discussion and personal reflection about cultural safety and best practice in digital health interventions with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Key components of the workshop are outlined as follows.

Acknowledgement of historical and contemporary contexts of health and medical research
Current digital health research trials with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Organisations
Re-framing digital health conventions and research - towards a relational approach that upholds culturally safety
A best practice framework for digital health with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people - the significance of this work and the early learnings

Speaker

Dr Sankalp Khanna FAIDH

Team Leader - Health Intelligence

Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO

Session chair

Biography

Sankalp Khanna is a Principal Research Scientist and leads the Health Intelligence team at the CSIRO Australian e-Health Research Centre. His research is focused on applying Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques to model, analyse, predict, simulate and optimise patient flow through Australian public hospitals and develop explainable algorithms for delivering decision support that clinicians can interpret and trust. Solutions developed by Sankalp have helped reshape workflow and policy in hospitals in Australia and overseas. Sankalp is also Adjunct Associate Professor at the Queensland University of Technology and Griffith University, the Secretary of the Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) Steering Committee, and a founding Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health.

Andrew Goodman

Postdoctoral Fellow

Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO

Workshop: Best practice in digital health research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

9:00 AM - 9:40 AM

Presentation

Biography

Andrew Goodman is an Aboriginal man from beautiful Iningai Country in Western Queensland. Andrew is finalizing his PhD that has been a collaborative project with Wuchopperen Health Service in Cairns and Mulungu Aboriginal Corporation Primary Health Care Service in Mareeba. The project has assessed the appropriateness, feasibility, and effect of utilising a CSIRO-built smartphone and web-based interactive system (mHealth platform) specifically tailored for the clinical management of hypertension with patients and service providers in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Health Organisation. Andrew has also held Research Officer roles with Queensland Cardiovascular Research Network, Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council, and the Indigenous Cardiovascular Outreach Program.

Prof Ray Mahoney

Visiting Scientist

Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO

Workshop: Best practice in digital health research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

9:00 AM - 9:40 AM

Presentation

Biography

Professor Ray Mahoney, Professor of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Discipline Lead of Population Health & Visiting Scientist, Australian eHealth Research Centre (AEHRC), CSIRO. Professor Mahoney is a Bidjara man with family ties to Central West Queensland who has worked extensively to implement best practice CVD care, particularly for Indigenous people. Professor Mahoney has developed and implemented a range of research projects with key strategic Indigenous community-controlled organisation partners and Hospitals. Including establishing a multi-agency research partnership, an e-Health Research Collaboration focused on establishing a best practice framework to guide and inform culturally safe eHealth interventions with Indigenous people. Professor Mahoney has led the codesign of Mixed Methods Evaluations of integrated care trials with an Aboriginal Health Service & Hospital that includes data linkage.