Three years ago, cardiologist and Monash PhD student Jessica O'Brien began an important heart research project looking at ways to understand a potentially fatal but preventable disease affecting mainly young Indigenous Australians - rheumatic heart disease. Director of Gukwonderuk, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences PhD Candidate, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Then, two-thirds of the way into it, everything changed. After all her clinical and research training in a biomedical system, O'Brien underwent a kind of academic and cultural awakening in terms of Indigenous health and the problems with what the researchers describe as an overwhelmingly "colonial" health system.

https://www.miragenews.com/indigenous-paradigm-employed-to-combat-1081374/

#miragenews