Time to celebrate

We recently reached a significant milestone, with more than 10,000 respondents having completed the Mayi Kuwayu survey!

As always, thank you to our partners, collaborators, ambassadors and community members in continuing to engage with the Mayi Kuwayu Study. In times of uncertainty it is heartening to see how invested our communities are in our work.

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Community benefit key in securing funding partnership

Associate Professor Ray Lovett welcomed a major funding boost for Mayi Kuwayu, with the Ian Potter Foundation injecting $590,000 into the Study. The amount will be matched by the Australian National University’s College of Health and Medicine, and Chancelry. Ray said it was vital to ensure that data from the Study was used to benefit communities and to help guide policy into the future.

Read the full release here.

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Watch this space

The Mayi Kuwayu Study team want to ensure that the Mayi Kuwayu data can make as many positive changes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing as possible. As such, we want to support other organisations in conducting their own Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing studies.

We are currently in the process of updating our website with all the information you’ll need on applying for and receiving Mayi Kuwayu data, subject to approval by our Data Governance Committee.

Keep an eye on the MK Study website, as these documents will be available any day now!

Visit here.

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MK partners rise to new challenges

At the request of Tangentyere Council, Alyson Wright convened a training workshop on “Supporting Public Health Responses” that used specially designed Aboriginal Health Worker COVID-19 training modules. The workshop was attended by Aboriginal community-based workers from Tangentyere, Menzies School of Health Research and health practitioners from the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress and the Central Australian Public Health Unit. The training involved presentations from Dr Belinda Greenwood at the PHU and Karen Johnson, AMSANT Infection Control Trainer. Tamara Riley and Meru Sheel also gave presentations.

These modules, developed by MK researchers Alyson and Bobby Maher, have been hugely popular across the sector, and continue to be used for training purposes. They are available via the link below, and are suitable for the general population as well as health service employees.

Read more about our training module here.

Below: Participants receive their certificates at the Tangentyere Council training day.

Picture shows Ray Lovett and Emily Colonna on a MK field trip to Mutawintji community, Broken Hill in 2019.