The Centre of Excellence for Aboriginal Digital in Health
What is CEADH?
The Centre of Excellence for Aboriginal Digital in Health (CEADH) is a member network of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations peak bodies across Australia. CEADH members advocate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Digital in Health.
What is Aboriginal Digital in Health?
The phrase “Aboriginal Digital in Health” means digital health solutions are self-determined by and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
CEADH works to ensure digital health solutions and infrastructure are culturally safe. CEADH works on the principle that good models of Aboriginal Digital in Health Care are also good models of Digital Health for everyone.
Transformation of health service delivery for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities is our purpose
We aim to transform health service delivery for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities by advocating and developing culturally informed digital health solutions.
Here’s why this work matters:
Discrepancies in health outcomes between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous populations persist, underscoring the need for more effective integration of digital health solutions.
IDSov & IDGov
There is an urgent need to strengthen Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDSov) and Indigenous Data Governance (IDGov) to ensure that solutions in digital health are self-determined and community-led.
Empowerment through
self-determination is our focus
Empowerment through self-determination: Evidence confirms the effectiveness of self-determining strategies in addressing health outcome gaps.
Culturally appropriate digital health strategies including prevention, early intervention incorporating SEWB, and capacity-building programs, are essential for sustainable impact.
National Digital Health Strategy alignment: CEADH advocates for a national digital health strategy that truly aligns with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities’ needs, emphasising culturally safe service delivery.
Innovation and collaboration: CEADH supports the CSIRO Sparked Community Initiative, aiming to foster digital innovations in healthcare. However, a gap exists in specialised Aboriginal-led dialogue, which CEADH aims to fill.
Customisation to Community needs: Recognising the unique cultural, linguistic, and regional diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, CEADH pursues a flexible, decentralised approach to technology integration in health care, ensuring that solutions are locally adaptable yet centrally informed.
Visions and goals
of CEADH
Foster national collaboration on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Digital in Health research, innovation, and workforce development.
Strengthen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander governance and leadership in digital health across all State and Territory jurisdictions.
Promote and support delivery of State and Territory led flagship initiatives that integrate with the national digital health framework.
Support community-controlled digital health solutions that advance better cultural safe health outcomes and equity through better access to health and wellbeing care and treatments.
Be a national hub for knowledge exchange, standards-setting, and advocacy that enables local adaptation and priority setting for digital in health.
Advance principles Indigenous Data Sovereignty to ensure they underpin all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Digital in Health activities.
Our commitment:
Applying a shared vision, recognising each jurisdictional partner is functioning at a different discovery, foundational, intermediate and advanced stage of digital health maturity.
Moving forward with purpose:
CEADH will support community-led and cultural safe health and wellbeing innovation to advance health equity through digital health solutions in alignment with Closing the Gap Priority Reform.
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Acknowledgement
The Centre of Excellence for Aboriginal Digital in Health (CEADH) acknowledges Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders both past and present.
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