UQ researcher promotes health in Indigenous communities

A University of Queensland researcher has secured more than $1.4 million through the National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) Targeted Call for Research: Commercial determinants of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health 2023 scheme.

Adjunct Associate Professor Mark Wenitong will co-design a framework with Indigenous communities to promote healthy food choices and help reduce disease.

Dr Wenitong and his team including Professor Bronwyn Fredericks, Dr Katherine Cullerton and Dr Megan Ferguson at UQ, along with other leading Australian academics, aim to strengthen understanding of commercial factors that influence healthy decision making in remote retail environments and develop tools to assist.

This project will be conducted in close partnership with Community Enterprise Queensland, Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation, Outback Stores, Health and Wellbeing Queensland, Diabetes Australia and other institutes and universities.

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