Tagged with Closing the Gap

Professor James Charles has been instrumental in developing new national guidelines for diabetes-related foot disease, the first in more than a decade.

Set fireside beneath a magnificent celestial tapestry, a new virtual reality experience from Griffith University’s First People’s Health Unit invites you to listen and learn hands-on about knowledge from 20,000-years ago. Professor James Charles, Director of Griffith’s First People’s Health Unit (FPHU), is honouring the wisdom and work of his Elders this NAIDOC week as […]

Our First Peoples Health Unit turns five on Tuesday 25 August, and Director, Professor Roianne West, says while the unit has come a long way, there’s much more to do.

Higher levels of education and improved healthcare crucial to closing the gap

Australia’s first dedicated Indigenous theme park attraction highlights the strong role tourism can play in helping to ‘Close the Gap’, researchers at the Griffith Institute for Tourism believe. Tourism lecturer, Dr Sarah Gardiner, says the Dreamworld Corroboree project, which opened on the Gold Coast on Friday, is a showcase that can be followed by tourism […]