Kerry Arabena |
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| Visiting Research, Fellow Social Health | |
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GPO Box 553 AIATSIS Canberra ACT 2601 |
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Telephone: +61 2 6261 4228 Facsimile: +61 2 6249 7714 |
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| Email Kerry Arabena |
Kerry Arabena is a descendant from the Merriam people in the Torres Strait.
Kerry has previously been the Executive Director of an Indigenous health service and other political agencies, including the Pintubi Homelands Health Service and the Apunipinna Cape York Health Council. She has also been a member of a range of local, state and national Councils and Committees. Having supervised the development and implementation of national strategies, she is a Fellow of the Sir Gustav Nossal Leadership in Health Reform.
Ms Arabena has chaired a number of Boards and Committees, including the International Advisory Committee for Sexual Health and Family Planning Australia, the National Indigenous Australians Sexual Health Committee and is currently the Chairperson of the ACT Health Promotion Board.
Projects she is currently involved in include:
- Adolescent Health
- Civil Societies
- Gross Domestic Happiness: Translating Possibilities
- Reproductive Management: Impact on Indigenous Women's Health and Societies
Recent Publications
(2007) 'Medicare and Major Health Programs Report, March-April 2007', Mainstream Access Section Office for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Canberra.
(2007) 'Death, Dying and Grieving in Our Community: A report on the palliative approach for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the ACT', ACT Health, Canberra.
(2007) 'Before I Forget: The incidence of dementia in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities', Ngoonjook: Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, no. 1, pp. 41-49.
(2007) 'The Universal Citizen', presentation at the Global Ecological Integrity Conference, Delhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada, 24-27 June.
(2006) 'The Universal Citizen: An Indigenous Citizenship framework for the twenty-first century', Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2006/2, pp 36-46.
(2006) 'Beginning the Conversation: Addressing dementia in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities', Alzheimer's Australia, Canberra, available at www.alzheimers.org.au/upload/IndigenousForumReport.pdf.
(2005). Not Fit for Modern Australian Society: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the new arrangements for the administration of Indigenous affairs. Research Discussion Paper No. 16. Canberra: AIATSIS. Available here (pdf).
Arabena, Kerry and K. Mikhailovich. 2005. Evaluating an Indigenous Sexual Health Peer Education Program, Health Promotion Journal of Australia.
(2005) Torres Strait Islander Issues: Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage Report 2005. Seminar paper presented, 21 October, AIATSIS.
(2003) Indigenous Peer Education Training Manual. Canberra: Sexual Health and Family Planning ACT.
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