Indigenous* research

The National Centre for Immunisation Research (NCIRS) conducts a variety of research regarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and vaccine preventable diseases, across surveillance, evaluation and vaccine relevance.

Projects can be generated due to Federal programs/policies, State and Territory initiatives or from consultation with health professionals working within the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service and their affiliates.

Collaboration also occurs with other centres such as the SAX Institute, Menzies School of Health Research, Women's Hospital Melbourne and State and Territory Departments of Health.

Examples of Collaborating Projects

• A cluster of vulvar cancer and vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia in young Australian indigenous women
  (Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne)
• The Study of Environment on Aboriginal Resilience and Child Health (SEARCH)
  (SAX Institute, Sydney)
• Women, Human papillomavirus, Indigenous, Non-Indigenous, Urban, Rural Study (WHINURs)
  (Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne)

Evaluation of the Indigenous VPD Report

The National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) are looking to improve the way they publish national data on vaccine preventable disease (VPD) and vaccination coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

NCIRS would like to find out how national reports on VPDs and vaccine coverage in Australia are being used and ways to improve them.

These reports are published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence about every three years. The current report ‘Vaccine Preventable Diseases and vaccination coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Australia, 2003-2006’ can be viewed online here.

NCIRS would greatly appreciate you taking a moment to complete our brief online survey. All information provided is anonymous and will remain confidential.

To begin this survey, please click here.

Research group

Indigenous Immunisation Coordinator
Telphia-Leanne Joseph

Acting Manager of Surveillance
Robert Menzies



^{* Indigenous is used to incorporate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples}