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I Understand**This competition has closed** Win an incredible ticket package to Garma Festival, in our exclusive Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association (AIDA) members competition! Worth up to $7,000 each, we have two prize packages available: one for an AIDA Indigenous Medical Student member; a second for an AIDA Indigenous Medical Doctor (Fellows or non-Fellows) member. This is a … Continued
This is the next video in the new series featuring our members. Please meet Dr Taslena Tapim from the Dauareb tribe of the Meriam Nation in the Torres Strait. The AIDA member is a first year intern at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, NSW and hopes to return home and work as a doctor … Continued
The Specialist Trainee Support Program (STSP) in the Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association (AIDA) is receiving $4 million funding over four years, according the 2024-25 Federal budget announcement. Increased investment in Indigenous health care is crucial for Closing the Gap and improving the overall well-being of Indigenous communities. This funding will enable AIDA to continue working … Continued
The Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association (AIDA) is calling on the federal government to include medical students in the cost-of-living support for teaching, nursing and social work students and create financial parity. The lack of financial support for medical students during their placements is a barrier to some Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students enrolling in medical studies and contributing … Continued
Dr Natalie Pink is a Nyikina woman (familial ties to the Kimberley) and born on Kaurna land, where she has lived most of her life. Dr Pink is a fellow of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) and she has been an AIDA Board Director for two years. We asked Dr Pink … Continued
The Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association (AIDA) has proudly brought together 20 Torres Strait Islander Doctors and medical students with local Community leaders and state and federal politicians as part of AIDA’s Igiliyawa – Custodians of Life 2024 Program – which is running for five days starting on Monday 29th April. To open the program on … Continued
This is the first video in a new series featuring our members. Please meet Dr Tatum Bond, from the Ngajanji people of the southern Atherton Tablelands. Dr Bond is the first female Indigenous Fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine in Queensland.
The Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association (AIDA) welcomes the release of the Productivity Commission’s report on Closing the Gap. We commend the Commission’s analysis and recommendations calling for the government to share power with the Aboriginal Community Controlled sector and embed accountability to drive positive change. AIDA Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Donna Burns recognises that the … Continued
The Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association (AIDA) has recently welcomed 400 people to nipaluna (Hobart) to celebrate its annual conference, bringing members and partners to lutruwita for the first time since 2010. Conference highlights included keynote speeches from an Aboriginal owned and operated social enterprise The Kings Narrative and NAIDOC Person of the Year 2023, Professor … Continued
A Statement from the Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association “On Saturday the 14th October 2023 we all witnessed the news of an unequivocal ‘NO’ vote to the ‘Voice to Parliament’ with heavy hearts, knowing that the nation has denied us, as Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people, the right to have a direct say, politically, on … Continued