Partnerships & research
Working with others, on our terms
Good partners strengthen what community controls. Urapuntja has a long record of partnership and research collaboration, always with community consent and community benefit at the centre.
How we partner
Community control shapes how we work with others. Partnerships and research at Urapuntja follow simple principles:
- Community consent first. Nothing about us without us.
- Benefit flows back. Research and projects must leave the community stronger, with skills, jobs, evidence and resources.
- Our data, our story. Indigenous data sovereignty guides what is collected and how it is used.
- Long relationships over short projects. We value partners who stay.
Our history includes significant research collaborations, including work documenting why homelands living and community control produce better health. That evidence has informed policy well beyond Utopia.
Organisations we work with
AMSANT
Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory, the peak body for Aboriginal community-controlled health services in the NT. (Membership to confirm.)
NACCHO
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, the national peak body for the community-controlled health sector. (Membership to confirm.)
Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute
Research collaboration on Indigenous vascular and diabetes health, documented in the service's participation in the Teasdale-Corti primary health care research. (Current status to confirm.)
University of Melbourne
Historical research partnership through the Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, including the 'Revitalising Health For All' comprehensive primary health care project. (Current status to confirm.)
Interested in partnering with Urapuntja?
We welcome conversations with organisations that share our vision of community-controlled health and thriving homelands.
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