Media releases
Lowitja Institute launches the Member Community initiative to strengthen research for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing
Lowitja Institute today moved into an important new phase in its work as Australia’s national institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research, launching the Lowitja Institute Members Community portal...
Lowitja Institute celebrates landmark transition to community controlled organisation
Lowitja Institute, Australia’s national institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research, today fulfilled its long-held vision to become an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community controlled organisation. Lowitja...
Racism is killing us: Statement by Pat Anderson AO
The Black Lives Matters protests, here in Australia and across the world, are sounding cries of anguish and anger about the unrelenting impact of racism on our lives. Reflecting on...
Research Seeding Grants program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
Research Seeding Grants program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities A Research Seeding Grants program has been launched by the Lowitja Institute that will put research into Aboriginal and...
Supporting prevention and management of COVID-19 for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO), the Lowitja Institute, and The Australian National University (ANU) are working together to provide practical...
Indigenous experts focus on health and wellbeing solutions at international conference in Darwin
Leading national and international experts in the field of Indigenous health and wellbeing will be in Darwin from 18 to 20 June 2019 for the Lowitja Institute International Indigenous Health...
$10 million funding for the Lowitja Institute is an investment in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing
The Lowitja Institute welcomes the funding announcement in the Budget delivered by the Treasurer the Hon Josh Frydenberg MP. The Institute is Australia’s national institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
Physical activity program for Machado Joseph Disease
Developing a physical activity program for Aboriginal families with Machado Joseph Disease (MJD) living in the Top End of Australia Machado Joseph Disease (MJD), an inherited autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease,...
Healthy skin
Skin conditions and infections can be a contributing factor to a range of illnesses, including renal disease, rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease. Recognising the problems caused by skin infections...
Anaemia prevention in the Northern Territory
Anaemia during pregnancy may cause negative health outcomes for mothers and for infants, so evaluating programs helping to prevent anaemia will help health services and families to understand what works,...
