Healthy Development Adelaide event

Closing the Gap: Data Sovereignty, Ownership and Sharing. 

The National Agreement on Closing the Gap has been built around four Priority Reforms that have been directly informed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. These reforms are central to the National Agreement and will change the way governments work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities.

This forum focuses on Priority Reform 4: Shared Access to Data and Information at a Regional Level.

Outcome of this reform is for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to have access to, and the capability to use, locally-relevant data and information to set and monitor the implementation of efforts to close the gap, their priorities and drive their own development.

Target of this reform is to increase the number of regional data projects to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to make decisions about Closing the Gap and their development.

Our speakers will present around this reform and how better support the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with focus on women, children and young people.

OUR SPEAKERS

Peter Worthington-Eyre, Chief Data Officer / Executive Director, Office for Data Analytics, Department of the Premier and Cabinet on Data for communities by communities.

Kim Morey, co-lead, Wardliparingga Aboriginal Health Equity Theme and Courtney Theseira, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) on Indigenous Data Sovereignty – why its required for Closing the Gap.

A/Professor Courtney Ryder, Discipline Lead, Injury Studies, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University on In Action – Registry Data, Survey Design and Indigenous Methodologies.

Jessie Sleep, Chief Executive, Far West Community Partnerships on Implementing Data Sovereignty on the ground - a grass roots case study.

OUR CHAIR
Professor Carol Maher (HDA Co-Convenor), Professor of Population and Digital Health, Medical Research Future Fund Investigator / Deputy Director of the Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA), University of South Australia.

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