ReviewHuman resources for health2019
Capacity building of the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health researcher workforce: a narrative review.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Mechanisms to build research capacity in the rural health workplace: a realist synthesis.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- A Systematic Review Exploring Empirical Pharmacogenomics Research Within Global Indigenous Populations.Molecular genetics & genomic medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Family-centred interventions for Indigenous early childhood well-being by primary healthcare services.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
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- A scoping review of research capability building: impact on health workforce attraction and retention in rural and remote Australia.Human resources for health · 2026Article
- Indigenous Culture and Health in UDRH Research: An Indigenous-Led Narrative Review.The Australian journal of rural health · 2026Review
- Evaluation of the research capacity and culture within the allied health workforce in Northern New South Wales Local Health District: a cross-sectional observational study.BMC health services research · 2025Observational
- Social determinants of oral health in an indigenous community of Chile: preliminary data of a mixed qualitative and quantitative study.BMC oral health · 2025Article
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- Indigenous Health Research Mentorship within Post-Secondary Institutions in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- "It's research, our input can grow": identifying health research priorities with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities-study protocol.Research involvement and engagement · 2023Article
- From Deficit to Strength-Based Aboriginal Health Research-Moving toward Flourishing.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Laying the foundations of community engagement in Aboriginal health research: establishing a community reference group and terms of reference in a novel research field.Research involvement and engagement · 2022Article
- Research capacity-building for clinicians: understanding how the research facilitator role fosters clinicians' engagement in the research process.Health research policy and systems · 2022Article
- Addressing the need for indigenous and decolonized quantitative research methods in Canada.SSM - population health · 2021Article
- A community-based co-designed genetic health service model for Aboriginal Australians.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundThis paper provides a narrative review that scopes and integrates the literature on the development and strengthening of the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health researcher workforce. The health researcher workforce is a critical, and oft overlooked, element in the health workforce, where the focus is usually on the clinical occupations and capabilities. Support and development of the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health researcher workforce is necessary to realise more effective health policies, a more robust wider health workforce, and evidence-led clinical care. This holds true internationally. It is critical to identify what approaches have resulted in increased numbers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in health research, stronger local community partnerships with universities and industry, and research excellence and have contributed to evidence-led health workforce development strategies.
methodsThe search was for peer-reviewed journal articles between 2000 and early 2018 on capacity building of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health researcher workforce. Databases searched were CINAHL (EBSCO), PubMed, PsychINFO, LIt.search, and Google Scholar, combined with manual searches of select journals and citations in the grey literature. A coding scheme was developed to scan research coverage of various dimensions of health research capacity building.
resultsTwenty-four articles were identified. Eight focused on strengthening research capabilities of community members. A recurrent finding was the high research productivity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health researchers and strong interest in furthering research that makes a substantive contribution to community well-being. Action-based principles were derived from synthesis of the findings. Generally, research capacity building led to numerous gains in workforce development and improving health systems.
conclusionsThere is a shortage of literature on health researcher workforce capacity building. National-level research on capacity building strategies is needed to support the continued success and sustainability of the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health researcher workforce. This research needs to build on the strengths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers. It also needs to identify clear and robust pathways to careers and stable employment in the health workforce, and health researcher workforce more specifically. This need is evident in all settler colonial nations (e.g. Canada, United States of America, New Zealand), and principles can be applied more broadly to other minoritised populations.
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