Consulting
Lowitja Consulting delivers tailored fee-for-service advice and assistance that contributes to our vision of being ‘an authoritative and collective voice for the benefit of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ health and wellbeing’.
A business unit within Lowitja Institute, Lowitja Consulting is driven by our values to:
- undertake projects that deliver benefit to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- prioritise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership and capacity strengthening
- generate, translate and connect knowledge across sectors, geographies, services, governments, not-for-profit organisations and communities to provide advice based on expert knowledge, evidence, and research.
Our service offerings
Lowitja Consulting offers services in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing policy, and organisational development. Our management consulting and advisory services are delivered through work on policy development and analysis, research, stakeholder consultation, evaluation, training, strategic planning, and ethical frameworks and process.
Our services are designed to draw upon and strengthen our research and reflect Lowitja Institute’s research principles in maintaining a focus on beneficence, workforce development, engaging end users, and measuring impact.
Recent projects
Targeted Translation Research Accelerator (TTRA) program
Following our work on the Targeted Translation Research Accelerator (TTRA) Program for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in 2022-23, which saw Lowitja Consulting partner with MTPConnect to complete a Needs Assessment and Prioritisation process for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-specific Round 3 of the TTRA Program, we are continuing to support the successful grant applicants throughout the course of their funding agreements.
Round 3 of the TTRA program (a Medical Research Future Fund initiative that aims to develop or progress innovations in preventative, diagnostic, therapeutic, and/or disease management care for diabetes and cardiovascular disease) resulted in $5.9 million in grant funding being awarded to six projects. Many of these are led by or undertaken in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community controlled organisations. Our role at Lowitja Consulting is to provide mentorship, capability building, project management support, and knowledge translation guidance to the six research teams to ensure their research findings are of greatest benefit to our communities’ health and wellbeing. In addition, Lowitja institute has co-facilitated a Community of Practice for awardees to provide the opportunity to share knowledge, experience, and challenges across projects to strengthen the research outcomes.
New South Wales Aboriginal Health Plan Refresh
Lowitja Consulting was engaged by the Centre for Aboriginal Health (within the NSW Ministry of Health) to support the development of a new statewide Aboriginal Health Plan. Led by a partnership between the Centre for Aboriginal Health and the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of NSW, this process also received guidance from an Aboriginal Health Plan Advisory Committee that comprised senior leaders from Aboriginal community controlled health services and Local Health Districts across New South Wales, Aboriginal specialist leaders from within the Ministry of Health, and representation from Stolen Generations and Aboriginal LGBTIQ+ community organisations.
Lowitja Consulting’s work on the new Aboriginal Health Plan involved analysing the results of an extensive consultation process with Aboriginal people and organisations across New South Wales, as well as relevant national and state-level strategies and Local Health District plans targeted at Aboriginal health, to develop a detailed set of nine Ppriority reform areas and strategic directions that were iteratively tested and refined with the Advisory Committee. With the support of beyond… Kathleen Stacey & Associates and SB & Associates Consultancies, we also undertook a process of mapping priority domains of action between these documents to maximise alignment of the new Aboriginal Health Plan and support effective coordination of activities in the implementation phase.
Contact us
If you would like to know more about working with Lowitja Consulting, please contact (03) 8341 5555
