The History of Community Controlled Health Sector in Queensland

Project Staff

Dr Bronwyn Fredericks  (Monash University and QAIHC)

Professor Wendy Brady (Charles Darwin University)

Ms Mary Martin (QAIHC)

Project Outline

The History of the Community Controlled Health in Queensland project is being undertaken by the Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council (QAIHC) and is funded by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). All Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Health Services in Queensland have been identified as possible participating sites for this project.

The project aims to document:

• Models of Indigenous governance;
• The differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous governance and management and what constitutes success or failure of a health service;
• The historical impacts that community controlled health services have had on community leadership, engagement, relationships, and the demographics of particular geographic regions;
• The assistance provided to the development of other health services and organisations and Indigenous health advocacy and activism in Queensland;
• The unwritten and undocumented knowledge of a period of time including that which is in current oral history accounts.