SAHMRI
- SA Health and Medical Research Institute
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Location:
SA
- Contact phone: Full time Join one of Australia’s leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander led health research teams and help drive meaningful change. As a Senior Research Fellow within Wardliparingga, you will lead impactful, community driven research that advances health equity and improves outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across Australia. The Wardliparingga Aboriginal Health Equity Theme (AHE) , located on the lands of the Kaurna people at SAHMRI, is a leading national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led unit dedicated to wellbeing and achieving health equity among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia through quality and safe health and medical research. Our program of research responds to community priority areas; chronic disease, social and emotional determinants of health, aged care and healthy ageing.
It is governed and done in partnership withAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Our research is meaningful, rigorous, and translational. Our methodological strengths lie in population health, implementation science and health services research.

About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Research Fellow to join Wardliparingga Aboriginal Health Equity Theme and contribute to the delivery of impactful, community led research that advances health equity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across South Australia and nationally. In this role, you will provide research leadership across a diverse portfolio of projects delivered in partnership with health services, communities and key stakeholders. Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, you will lead and contribute to high quality mixed methods research,



translating evidence into meaningful improvements in health services, policies and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
- Support the development and implementation of research activities
- Lead and build on our decade of research by providing leadership, coordination and oversight to research across a range of research activities.
- Provide high-quality research support to project team members to successfully achieve research milestones and outputs.
- Prepare resources and/documentation required to successfully keep collaborating organisations, research partners and Chief Investigators engaged and informed.
- Lead the preparation of ethics applications, service and site agreements, reporting and study documentation and dissemination of research outputs and outcomes.
- Attract and assist with the preparation of applications for external refereed research grants.
- Promote scholarship and integrity and support a culture of excellence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research.
- Foster and support local and national links and strategic team-oriented relationships that build understanding and skills with relevant research institutions, universities and community bodies including health and workforce services and government collaborators, that assist in the advancement of research objectives.
- Ensure research and other outputs are compliant with National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)



and Australian Vice-Chancellors’ committee (AVCC) guidelines and principles of research conduct with vulnerable or disadvantaged groups and in keeping with the principles of the South Australian Aboriginal Health Research Accord.
- Communicate research findings and assist with the development and implementation of knowledge translation activities, within high impact peer-reviewed journals, at conferences and within committees and other bodies relevant to the role. About You The successful candidate will possess the following key attributes:
- PhD in Public Health, Health Services Research, Epidemiology, Health Science or a related discipline a clinical qualification would be of value
- Deep understanding of the Australian health system, including the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Sector, Hospitals and Aged Care
- Demonstrated experience in successfully meeting research project milestones to completion, supervising, and working with Aboriginal organisations and healthcare services.
- 7 years minimum experience in a health-related research field.
- Demonstrated experience in the conduct of all stages of the research process
- Sound knowledge of population health relevant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and ability to utilise evidence-based information sources to the design and delivery of research projects
- Demonstrated experience in design and conduct of qualitative and quantitative research methods.
- Experience co-designing and implementing a research project within Australian primary health services and/or hospitals in a research lead capacity.
- Experience in working within a research team, as well as taking the lead on research projects.
- Direct line management of a research t

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