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Professor Allen Ross, Mr Taylor Clark and Ms Anne-Marie Mepham from Orange Aboriginal Medical Services, and Ms Cherie Forgione from Gilgandra Local Aboriginal Medical Service.
The inaugural Executive Director, Professor Allen Ross, MD, PhD, of Charles Sturt University’s newly established Rural and Regional Health Research Institute, is laying a solid foundation to reduce health disparities between country and city people, via a ‘community-partnerships’ approach.
The Institute, based on the Orange campus, has been established to conduct research addressing the rural health gap and aims to transform health outcomes through delivering world class research whille driving its translation locally, nationally, and internationally.
Research from the Institute involves collaborations with Western Sydney University (WSU), the Joint Program in Medicine (JPM), NSW Health, Rural Health stakeholders and other international partners.
The institute has an 11-member Advisory Board, comprising Australian leaders in rural public health, medical research, and industry. It has also established a First Nations Table to ensure that research is conducted with communities and in a culturally appropriate manner.
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