An Australian first trial of an anti-racism intervention at a major public hospital: acceptability, feasibility, and outcomes development.

This project aims to develop/pilot/evaluate an anti-racism intervention to address racism as experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in hospital care. We will engage with health consumers to better understand experiences of care at Caboolture Hospital, including health consumers who have reported incidents of racism, to identify factors contributing to racism at the three broad levels where racism occurs within healthcare settings, and to guide the intervention co-design. We will engage with service area staff to understand experiences with incidents of racism within their service areas and with hospital leadership to better understand the institutional constraints/enablers for adopting anti-racist strategies and practices. Co-design workshops will co-develop flexible activities to wrap around the core intervention components, design strategies to foster translation of learnings into everyday care and identify potential indicators to help track/measure intervention anti-racism outcomes. We will pilot the anti-racism intervention in two service areas, and evaluation activities will assess the feasibility/acceptability of the pilot. Lastly, exploratory work will be undertaken to inform future scalability.   

2022 Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Indigenous Health Research Grant

$980,279

January 2024- May 2026.

Chief Investigator

• Prof James Ward Director, UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health james.ward@uq.edu.au
  
  

Investigators

• Prof Anthony Shakeshaft, Professor of Indigenous Health Services Research, UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health a.shakeshaft@uq.edu.au

• Mr Paul Stewart CEO, Lowitja Institute Paul.stewart@lowitja.org,au

• Dr Shea Spierings, Research Fellow, UQ Centre for Indigenous Futures s.spierings@uq.edu.au

• Ms Erika Langham, Research Fellow, First Nations Cancer and Wellbeing Program, School of Public Health e.langham@uq.edu.au

• A/Prof Abdullah Mamun, Principal Research Fellow, UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health a.mamun@uq.edu.au

• Dr Thuy Frakking, Acting Research Director, Research Development Unit (RDU), Caboolture, Kilcoy & Woodford Clinical Directorate, Metro North Health Thuy.frakking@health.qld.gov.au

• A/Prof Xiang-Yu Hou, Principal Research Fellow, UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health x.hou@uq.edu.au

• Dr Saira Sanjida, Research Fellow, UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health s.sanjida@uq.edu.au

• Ms Karlene Willcocks, Executive Director, Caboolture, Kilcoy and Woodford Clinical Directorate, Metro North Health Karlene.willcocks@health.qld.gov.au

• Ms Sherry Holzapfel, Executive Director, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Metro North Health Sherry.holzapfel@health.qld.gov.au

• Dr Anton Clifford-Motopi, Senior Research Fellow, UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health a.clifford@uq.edu.au

• Mr Kaava Watson, Director Network Development, Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH) Kaava.watson@iuih.org.au

Coordinators

• Ms Natasha Lee, Research Fellow, UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health natasha.lee@uq.net.au

• Dr Richard Violette, Research Fellow, UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health r.violette@uq.edu.au

UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health

Caboolture Hospital, Metro North Hospital and Health Services

Institute for Urban Indigenous Health

Lowitja Institute

Prof James Ward james.ward@uq.edu.au

Natasha Lee natasha.lee@uq.edu.au