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2009 National Day of Action to Close the Gap and new DVD learning resource

As part of the 2009 National Day of Action to Close the Gap, we are proud to announce a collaboration by Professor Lisa Jackson Pulver and Sally Fitzpatrick from Muru Marri with Lois Meyer from the SPHCM postgraduate team to produce a short documentary 'Ending Indigenous health inequalities within our lifetime', now available online.

This documentary presents the perspectives of a number of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal community leaders and health experts from urban and remote Australia who discuss how to approach the current health disadvantage faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The DVD is inspired by the recent high-profile Close the Gap campaign for Indigenous health equality, the signing of the Close the Gap Statement of Intent, and the commitment of substantial funds towards this end made recently by the Council of Australian Governments. The DVD is designed to be used as a scenario building tool in either face-to-face and via online workshop delivery and is currently being implemented in group assignment work within the elective PHCM9630 Indigenous Health in Australia. The DVD resource has been funded through a Learning and Teaching Grant won by Lois Meyer and Sophie di Corpo from the university and is part of a larger project they are undertaking in developing scenario based learning strategies within the SPHCM postgraduate programs. For more information please contact Lois Meyer at l.meyer@unsw.edu.au.

Closing the Gap video [Streamed and Podcast]

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