SHQ acknowledges the Close the Gap campaign as an important step in working towards improved health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. As a group, Indigenous Australians experience widespread disadvantage and health inequality.
To achieve health equality in Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be able to access:
- Quality health care in the location of choice.
- A culturally safe healthcare system that responds to individual need.
- Safe and secure housing
SHQ recognises that to achieve health equality more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are needed in the health work force. To work towards this SHQ is offering an annual scholarship to one Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Doctor and one Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurse to participate in one of our Certificate Programs:
FPAA Certificate in Sexual and Reproductive Health for Medical Practitioners
Certificate in Sexual and Reproductive Health (Nursing)
SHQ will cover the full cost of the course for a doctor and a nurse. Other costs such as travel, accommodation and meals etc. whilst on the course will need to be met by the participant.
Priority will be given to those Doctors and Nurses who identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and who have a strong interest in sexual and reproductive health.
The scholarship is only available to clinicians that work in WA.