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. 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://lens.monash.edu/@medicine-health/2023/09/11/1386072/applying-an-indigenous-paradigm-to-tackle-rheumatic-heart-disease

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