This research partnered with Aboriginal Elders to co-design and implement a 13-week online unit aimed at educating non-Indigenous health care providers on culturally respectful and safe dementia care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The involvement of Elders in guiding content, delivering weekly Zoom sessions, and evaluating students’ work was highly valued, leading to the unit’s recognition and availability nationally and internationally through the University of Tasmania.
The article discusses the impacts of climate change on the Torres Strait Islands in Australia and the culturally appropriate responses identified by the Torres Strait Islander community.�
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Volume 49, Issue 3, June 2025, 100239
The authors highlight how the Indigenous view of health has always understood the interconnects among people, animals and the environment, which is the foundation of what is now a western concept called “One Health”. They call for Indigenous understandings of the connection to be embedded into One Health approaches. They propose that future studies utilise local Indigenous seasonal calendars, which are often based on environmental cues, to help understand the seasonal effects of zoonoses.
Sudden cardiac death is more common and coronary heart disease and rheumatic heart disease are the most common causes in First Nations Australians in the Northern Territory of Australia under the age of 40 years. The authors contend that there is a need for First Nation Australians specific local guidelines for a comprehensive pre-participation Heart-Health assessment.
This study found that Māori, Pasifika, and patients from low socioeconomic areas are underrepresented among presentations to sports medicine clinics in Auckland, New Zealand. Multiple strategies are needed at a system and provider level to address these inequities.
S. Bhattacharya & G. Nikitas, Energy and Climate Change: Our New Future, 2025, Pages 197-224
This chapter supports SDGs 7, 11, and 13, by providing an overview of wind energy and current challenges and opportunities, with a particular focus on offshore wind energy which is an increasingly important part of the energy transition.
Massimiliano, Rosa-Clot & Tina, Progress in Floating Photovoltaic Systems, 2025, Pages 1-23
This chapter supports SDGs 7, 11, and 13, by providing an overview of floating photovoltaics as a major segment within photovoltaics, reviewing the current situation and future potential of floating PV as a key area of solar energy.
The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 2025, 100415
This article examines the concept of "anticipatory solastalgia" - the distress felt in the present about expected future environmental decline due to climate change.
Describes the sharing of sand drawings or sand stories practised by the Pitjantjatjara community of Central Australia, among others. Sand stories can provide education on traditional Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing, but are also commonly used to process personal episodic experiences and multiple aspects of sand stories mirror modern psychotherapeutic techniques.
