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Prof

Kerry Arabena

Honorary
science & technology
life sciences & biomedicine
humans
oceanic ancestry group
australia
male
female
adult
health services, indigenous
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Prof

Kerry Arabena

 
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Medicine, Dentistry And Health Sciences
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Projects

Displaying the 30 most recent projects by Kerry Arabena.

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Give Where You Live Community Grant - Wadawurrung Project

2018 - 2019
Completed
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Healing The Past By Nurturing The Future: Learning How To Identify And Support Indigenous Parents Who Have Experienced Complex Childhood Trauma

Complex childhood trauma causes profound and long-lasting effects on physical, social and emotional wellbeing, which can be triggered during..

2018 - 2021
Active
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The Microbiome Story: Understanding The Role Of Microbiome In Narrating Intergenerational Health And Wellbeing Among Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Families

2017 - 2019
Completed
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Building The Evidence Base Of First 1000 Days Australia: An Evaluation Of Implementation Outcomes

This project aims to evaluate the implementation of a coordinated, community-based approach to service engagement, conceived of and led by I..

2017 - 2019
Completed
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Building The Evidence Base Of First 1000 Days Australia: An Evaluation Of Implementation Outcomes

This project aims to evaluate the implementation of a coordinated, community-based approach to service engagement, conceived of and led by I..

2017 - 2020
Active
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Building The Evidence Base Of First 1000 Days Australia: An Evaluation Of Implementation Outcomes

This project aims to evaluate the implementation of a coordinated, community-based approach to service engagement, conceived of and led by I..

2017 - 2020
Active
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Centre For Research Excellence To Promote Safer Families: Tailoring Early Identification And Novel Interventions For Intimate Partner Violence

Partner violence damages the health of families, particularly children. We aim to make all families safer by generating new knowledge from e..

2017 - 2022
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Centre For Research Excellence To Promote Safer Families: Tailoring Early Identification And Novel Interventions For Intimate Partner Violence

Partner violence damages the health of families, particularly children. We aim to make all families safer by generating new knowledge from e..

2017 - 2022
Active
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First 1000 Days

2017 - 2019
Completed
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Healthy Country Healthy People

2016 - 2017
Completed
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Exploring Potential Impacts Of Family Empowerment And Ncd Prevention Strategies On Achieving Early Life Equity For Indigenous And Tribal Peoples In Australia And Indonesia - Srp03

2016 - 2019
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Early Childhood Service Integration

2016 - 2019
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First 1000 Days Indigenous Household Survey

2016 - 2017
Completed
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Lowitja Institute Student Scholarship Agreement - Thorpe

2016 - 2019
Completed
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The Lowitja Institute Crc Co-Funding Scholarship Program

2016 - 2018
Completed
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Lowitja Institute Student Scholarship Agreement - Munro Harrison

2016 - 2018
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Building A Simulation Model To Improve Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction And Treatment For Indigenous Australians

This project will primarily focus on developing health economic simulation models to assess different methods for preventing and treating ca..

2016 - 2019
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Evaluation Of Gathering Place Model In Victoria

2015 - 2016
Completed
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Unfitness To Plead And Indefinite Detention Of Persons With Cognitive Impairments: Addressing The Legal Barriers And Creating Appropriate Alternative Supports In The Community

2015 - 2018
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Evaluation Of The Aboriginal Gathering Places In The Eastern Metropolitan Region Of Melbourne

2015 - 2016
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Cervical Self Collection Pilot Project

2015 - 2018
Completed
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Healthy Parks, Healthy People - Aboriginal Wellbeing Project

2015 - 2015
Completed
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Development Of Gatekeeper Training To Improve The Capacity Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Communities To Prevent Youth Suicide

This project aims to develop and evaluate suicide gatekeeper training courses for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and for ..

2015 - 2019
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Tidda'S Count To Ten Project

2014 - 2015
Completed
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Understanding Barriers And Facilitators To Postpartum Care For Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Women With Gestational Diabetes

2014 - 2016
Completed
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The Lowitja Institute Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Health Crc

2014 - 2019
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Engagement Methods And Policy Analysis

2013 - 2014
Completed
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Engagement Methods And Policy Analysis

2013 - 2014
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Supporting Access Health To Better Meet The Needs Of Aboriginal Clients In St Kilda

2013 - 2013
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Onemda Vichealth Koori Health Unit - Vichealth

2009 - 2017
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Project Types

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Research Contracts

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Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 37 most recent scholarly works by Kerry Arabena.

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Ecosystem services for human health in Oceania

Rosemary A McFarlane, Pierre Horwitz, Kerry Arabena, Anthony Capon, Aaron Jenkins, Stacy Jupiter, Joel Negin, Margot W Parkes, Sala Saketa

Journal article  |  2019  |  Ecosystem Services

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Parenting after a history of childhood maltreatment: A scoping review and map of evidence in the perinatal period

Catherine Chamberlain, Graham Gee, Stephen Harfield, Sandra Campbell, Sue Brennan, Yvonne Clark, Fiona Mensah, Kerry Arabena, Helen Herrman, Stephanie Brown, Judy Atkinson, Jan Nicholson, Deirdre Gartland, Karen Glover, Amanda Mitchell, Caroline Atkinson, Helen McLachlan, Shawana Andrews, Tanja Hirvoven, Naomi Ralph, et al.

Journal article  |  2019  |  PLOS ONE

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Development and Use of Prediction Models for Classification of Cardiovascular Risk of Remote Indigenous Australians.

An Tran-Duy, Robyn McDermott, Josh Knight, Xinyang Hua, Elizabeth LM Barr, Kerry Arabena, Andrew Palmer, Philip M Clarke

Journal article  |  2019  |  Heart, Lung and Circulation

BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death for Indigenous Australians. There is widespread belief that..

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Australian health professionals' statement on climate change and health

Kerry Arabena, Fiona Armstrong, Helen Berry, Peter Brooks, Tony Capon, Brendan Crabb, Alessandro Demaio, Peter Doherty, Sharon Lewin, Selina Lo, Alan Lopez, Celia McMichael, Barbara McPake, Rob Moodie, Terry Nolan, Tilman Ruff, Peter Sainsbury, Linda Selvey, David Shearman, Fiona Stanley, et al.

Journal article  |  2018  |  The Lancet

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Identifying the prevalence and predictors of suicidal behaviours for indigenous males in custody

Stephane M Shepherd, Benjamin Spivak, Kerry Arabena, Yin Paradies

Journal article  |  2018  |  BMC Public Health

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Re-development of mental health first aid guidelines for supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders who are experiencing suicidal thoughts and behaviour

Gregory Armstrong, Natalie Ironfield, Claire M Kelly, Katrina Dart, Kerry Arabena, Kathy Bond, Nicola Reavley, Anthony F Jorm

Journal article  |  2018  |  BMC Psychiatry

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My island home: place-based integration of conservation and public health in Oceania

Aaron Jenkins, Pierre Horwitz, Kerry Arabena

Journal article  |  2018  |  Environmental Conservation

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Completing the cervical screening pathway: Factors that facilitate the increase of self-collection uptake among under-screened and never-screened women, an Australian pilot study

E McLachlan, S Anderson, D Hawkes, M Saville, K Arabena

Journal article  |  2018  |  Current Oncology

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Self-collection for under-screened women in a National Cervical Screening Program: pilot study

M Saville, D Hawkes, E Mclachlan, S Anderson, K Arabena

Journal article  |  2018  |  Current Oncology

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Suicidal behaviour in Indigenous compared to non-Indigenous males in urban and regional Australia: Prevalence data suggest disparities increase across age groups

Gregory Armstrong, Jane Pirkis, Kerry Arabena, Dianne Currier, Matthew J Spittal, Anthony F Jorm

Journal article  |  2017  |  Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

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Care co-ordination interventions to improve outcomes during pregnancy and early childhood (up to 5 years)

NA Strobel, K Arabena, CE East, EM Schultz, M Kelaher, KM Edmond, SJ Eades, C Chamberlain

Journal article  |  2017  |  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

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Re-development of mental health first aid guidelines for supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who are engaging in non-suicidal self-injury

Gregory Armstrong, Natalie Ironfield, Claire M Kelly, Katrina Dart, Kerry Arabena, Kathy Bond, Anthony F Jorm

Journal article  |  2017  |  BMC PSYCHIATRY

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An Introduction from Kerry Arabena, the New IAEH President

Kerry Arabena

Journal article  |  2017  |  EcoHealth

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Health and wellbeing outcomes of programs for Indigenous Australians that include strategies to enable the expression of cultural identities: a systematic review

Sarah MacLean, Rebecca Ritte, Alister Thorpe, Shaun Ewen, Kerry Arabena

Journal article  |  2017  |  Australian Journal of Primary Health

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Oceania

Kerry Arabena, Jonathan Kingsley

Journal article  |  2016  |  EcoHealth

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Hands Make Us Human

Kerry Arabena

Journal article  |  2016  |  EcoHealth

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Addressing structural challenges for the sexual health and well-being of Indigenous women in Australia

Kerry Arabena

Journal article  |  2016  |  Sexually Transmitted Infections

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'What hope can look like': The First 1000 days - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families.

K arabena, S Panozzo, R Ritte

Journal article  |  2016  |  Developing Practice: the child youth and family work journal

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Exploring Aboriginal patients' experiences of cardiac care at a major metropolitan hospital in Melbourne

Linda Worrall-Carter, Karen Daws, Muhammad Aziz Rahman, Sarah MacLean, Kevin Rowley, Shawana Andrews, Andrew MacIsaac, Phyllis M Lau, Samantha McEvedy, John Willis, Kerry Arabena

Journal article  |  2016  |  Australian Health Review

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An Australian model of the First 1000 Days: an Indigenous-led process to turn an international initiative into an early-life strategy benefiting indigenous families

R Ritte, S Panozzo, L Johnston, J Agerholm, SE Kvernmo, K Rowley, K Arabena

Journal article  |  2016  |  Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics

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Exploring Ecosystems and Health by Shifting to a Regional Focus: Perspectives from the Oceania EcoHealth Chapter

Jonathan Kingsley, Rebecca Patrick, Pierre Horwitz, Margot Parkes, Aaron Jenkins, Charles Massy, Claire Henderson-Wilson, Kerry Arabena

Journal article  |  2015  |  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

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Climate change: impact on country and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture

Kerry Arabena, Jonathan 'Yotti' Kingsley

Book Chapter  |  2015

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Primary health-care responses to methamphetamine use in Australian Indigenous communities

Sarah MacLean, Angela Harney, Kerry Arabena

Journal article  |  2015  |  Australian Journal of Primary Health

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Becoming Indigenous to the Universe Reflections on Living Systems, Indigenity and Citizenship

Book  |  2015

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Post-normal reconciliation - using science to reframe the reconciliation agenda

Kerry Arabena

Journal article  |  2015  |  Australian Aboriginal Studies

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The First 1000 Days: catalysing equity outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children

Kerry Arabena

Journal article  |  2014  |  Medical Journal of Australia

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Building evidence about effective health promotion in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

Kerry Arabena, Kevin Rowley, Sarah MacLean

Journal article  |  2014  |  Australian Journal of Primary Health

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Treatment guidelines, training and information resources about methamphetamine (ice) use for Victorian Aboriginal communities

A Harney, S MacLean, K Arabena

Report  |  2014

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Future initiatives to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Kerry Arabena

Journal article  |  2013  |  Medical Journal of Australia

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The Lowitja Institute: building a national strategic research agenda to improve the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Kerry Arabena, David Moodie

Journal article  |  2011  |  MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA

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Forests as landscapes for reconciliation

Kerry Arabena

Journal article  |  2011  |  AUSTRALIAN FORESTRY

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All knowledge is indigenous

K Arabena

Book Chapter  |  2010

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Life B’long Ali Drummond: A life in the Torres Strait

Kerry Arabena

Journal article  |  2008  |  AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL STUDIES

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Evaluating Australian Indigenous community health promotion initiatives: a selective review.

Katja Mikhailovich, Paul Morrison, Kerry Arabena

Journal article  |  2007  |  Rural and remote health

Effective health promotion interventions are critical to addressing the health needs of Indigenous people. We reviewed published a..

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Preachers, policies and power: the reproductive health of adolescent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia.

Kerry Arabena

Conference Proceedings  |  2006  |  Health Promotion Journal of Australia

The sexual abuses of Indigenous peoples are not a new phenomenon. Many historical documents attest to the active ruination of the ..

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Evaluating an indigenous sexual health peer education project.

Katja Mikhailovich, Kerry Arabena

Journal article  |  2005  |  Health Promotion Journal of Australia

ISSUE ADDRESSED: Many Indigenous Australians are dealing with a wide range of sexual health issues including contraception, HIV/AI..

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The Well Person's Health Check: a population screening program in indigenous communities in north Queensland.

Geoffrey Miller, Robyn McDermott, Brad McCulloch, Dympna Leonard, Kerry Arabena, Reinhold Muller

Journal article  |  2002  |  Australian Health Review

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Public Health and Health Services
Indigenous Health
Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)
Health and Support Services
Clinical Health (organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions)
Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine
Social Work
Ecology
Oncology and Carcinogenesis
Specific Population Health (excl. Indigenous Health)

News

Displaying the 4 most recent news articles by Kerry Arabena.

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Emotional abuse of children is a growing problem in Australia

Kerry Arabena

June 1, 2016
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Indigenous reconciliation in Australia: still a bridge too far?

Kerry Arabena

May 18, 2016
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1000 days to close the gap

Kerry Arabena

April 20, 2016
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Closing the Gap – good policy or just target practice?

Elizabeth McKinley, Kerry Arabena, Ian Anderson, Hugh Taylor, Marcia Langton, Nikki Moodie

March 10, 2016

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Credentials

Positions

Honorary

Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health

Education

Doctor of Philosophy Environmental Science

Australian National University

Graduate Diploma Arts (Aboriginal Studies)

University of South Australia

Bachelor of Social Work

Queensland University of Technology

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