C R E - S T R I D E

17/12/2025

STRIDEr's!

Report Link:https://mcusercontent.com/5d4c309122977ea0c3d769a32/files/c18c9ede-4763-1351-3761-1baf9116d937/CRE_STRIDE_Final_Report_Web.pdf

"We are proud to share the final report for CRE-STRIDE (2020–2024), capturing our research activities, evaluation findings, and key messages for strengthening systems to improve health equity in comprehensive primary health care.

This report reflects the incredible achievements of STRIDE over the past five years. Together, we have developed evidence and new partnerships for systems strengthening, advanced continuous quality improvement, and created space for Indigenous leadership to flourish. We worked across sectors, embraced creative, non-traditional research outputs, and built research capacity through a community of care and learning.

Our collective efforts informed policy, produced impactful research, and amplified voices that have long called for change. These achievements belong to every person who contributed - communities, health workers, investigators and partners.

A huge thank you to everyone in the STRIDE network who made this work possible."

- Veronica, Ross, Tessa, Ali and Kerryn
On behalf of the CRE-STRIDE team 🌺

🎉 Special shout outs! 🎉

📖 Authors: Tessa Benveniste, Alison Laycock, Kerryn Harkin, Ross Bailie, Veronica Matthews

✨ Contributors: STRIDE Fellas (Caroline Deen, Danielle Cameron, Jasmine Pilling, Kristy Clancy, Kris Vine, Talah Laurie, Vicki
Saunders), STRIDE Evaluation Working Group (Veronica Matthews, Ross Bailie, Tessa Benveniste, Alison Laycock, Emma
Walke, Jodie Bailie, Kris Vine, Roxanne Bainbridge, Deborah Askew), Aunty Lynette O'Donoghue-Feeney.

🎨 Graphic design: Jordan Lovegrove @ Karko Creations

23/09/2025

📣 STRIDEr's! 📣

Please share around or get in touch (if relevant to you and your role) should you be interested in helping us build an eLearning module that's all about continuous quality improvement!

The contacts are below📱📨

16/09/2025

STRIDEr's!

This Australian first is fresh off the press and ready to be shared, today we are shining the spotlight on the new 🌅 National Climate Risk Assessment 🌅

Essentially this report and approach has provided an understanding of who or what might be at risk from a changing climate, across the 11 different regions of our country and helps to paint a national picture for decision makers, to help them better prioritise adaptation actions.

A big congratulations to all involved! 🥳

Report link - there is also an insightful short video that you can watch: https://www.acs.gov.au/pages/41f9b35a4c7041c68d33ee41552b0dce

Other important report links that are a little bit hidden in amongst all of the information, so we've tried to help you out by linking them below individually!

1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Technical Report: https://www.acs.gov.au/documents/af4c85634b8942e6b632bcc498ffabe0/about

In this technical report you'll find a case study of wilya_janta and Kisani Upward's (a fellow academic and recent PhD graduate) work on solastalgia. It's worth having a little read!

2. Communities Technical Report: https://www.acs.gov.au/documents/8c8d736ff83643d79c5b2070645ba8dd/about

3. National Disasters and Emergency Management Technical Report: https://www.acs.gov.au/documents/e5a13d2c202e4390a98f07cbea29cf16/about

In this technical report you'll find some work done by recently appointed Dr. Rebecca McNaught who is another fellow academic and Northern Rivers local!

4. Health and Wellbeing Technical Report: https://www.acs.gov.au/documents/f0a66d60bda14d24843953a448b9f9a2/about

5. Air Quality and Communicable Diseases Technical Report: https://www.acs.gov.au/documents/536dad59fec14b4cb38dc4db954577af/about

6. Governance Technical Report: https://www.acs.gov.au/documents/9f1df59a4ee94f21abef34f7ad85a1bc/about

11/09/2025

STRIDEr's!

Some happy news coming out of the Healing Country project from Turrbal and Yugara Country 🥳

Last week we had such an amazing workshop with our deadly community partners and representatives, the QUT VISER team, and our Healing Country project team.

This meeting was an opportunity to start working on some 'story data maps', which are essentially a collection of respectfully gathered stories of Country's health from three different project sites: Warumungu (NT), Whadjuk Noongar (WA), and Bundjalung Country (NSW).

These stories and data will then be displayed in an interactive website format that uses different mediums such as graphic art, animations, sound, and soundbites of Elders yarning with researchers, weaving together experiences of a changing climate and its impact on local animals and community health.

The link below has a deadly video that explains the project and the positive impact of the collaborative work we are doing. You can also find the summary report of our last three-day meeting on Bundjalung Country, along with presentations from our beautiful service partners on the work they and we are doing!

Happy reading STRIDEr's 🥳

Healing Country project link: https://ucrh.edu.au/project/healing-country-weaving-knowledge-systems-to-meet-climate-challenges/

28/07/2025

Congratulations WiOT! Team 🥳

Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949840625000336

Good morning!

We have just had our paper published with the deadly The Lowitja Institute's 'First Nations Health & Wellbeing: The Lowitja Journal' 🥳

Thank you to the beautiful communities we worked with for sharing their stories and knowledges and to the team for their persistence. We are very excited to have this paper published - so please share around!

Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949840625000336

23/06/2025

STRIDEr's - a call out 🗣

Please share around!

This Scholarship is a powerful opportunity to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and researchers who are committed to improving cancer outcomes for Indigenous communities. It aims to grow the next generation of leaders in cancer-related fields by building skills, knowledge, and leadership capacity.

Up to four scholarships will be awarded annually between 2024 and 2026. Successful applicants will receive:

⭐️ Up to $120,000 AUD per year, for up to three years

⭐️ Up to $5,000 AUD per year in tailored academic and wellbeing support

⭐️ Ongoing funding – no need to reapply each year

The program is administered by Aurora, in partnership with Cancer Australia, and funded by the Australian Government.

Who can apply? Applicants must be:

⭐️ Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander

⭐️ A health professional, graduate student, or early-career researcher

⭐️ Enrolled in full-time postgraduate study or research in a cancer-related field (Please note: Postgraduate medical students are not eligible in 2025)

⭐️ Undertaking study or research that contributes to improved cancer outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

Applications must be submitted by Friday 12 September 2025.

Link: https://aurorafoundation.com.au/our-work/indigenous-pathways-portal/scholarships/first-nations-cancer-scholarship/

23/06/2025

STRIDEr's!

Happy Monday - here are some of our latest collaborative outputs for you all to have a read through and share around 🥳

1. STRIDE Evaluation Summaries: These visual summaries delve deep into the collaborations statistics, successes, how we achieved them and who we achieved them with!

2. The Journey of a Manuscript: A resource created for students and academics alike! Publishing and writing is a huge part of our everyday lives when studying and working - this poster has all of CRE-STRIDE's collective tips and tricks for you.

Link: https://cre-stride.org/publications/ 😌

18/06/2025

STRIDEr's,

🥳 Abstract Call Out! 🥳

What this conference aims to do:
"Reimagine Indigenous futures through knowledge and praxis"

Conference link: https://indigenous-futures.org/news-events/ifc-conference-2025

Share around!

12/06/2025

STRIDEr's - some very exciting news coming from the CQI (continuous quality improvement) space 🥳

A newly published book on Continuous Quality Improvement in Primary Health Care has just been published by Sydney University Press. The authors; Alison Laycock, Lynette O'Donoghue and Ross Bailie collectively send out their heart-felt gratitude to the many friends and colleagues who have enabled and contributed to the 25 years of work that forms the basis for this book!

Alison, Lynette and Ross, a very big congratulations from us all 🤩

Croakey Article link: https://www.croakey.org/new-book-puts-focus-on-improvement-and-innovation-in-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-primary-healthcare/

Hard copy version available at https://lnkd.in/gteTUf_c

Also, pdf and eBook editions are available online on Google, Apple Books and Amazon.

It is available on JSTOR via: https://lnkd.in/g9sjSTjq with access via ProQuest and online Open Access still to come.

06/06/2025

STRIDEr's!

Share this grant opportunity around to any deadly early career Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers that you know 🥳

More information down below via the weblink ⬇️

Weblink: https://asthma.org.au/find-funding/grants-available-to-support-early-career-first-nations-researchers/

03/06/2025