The Carumba Institute prioritises knowledge production, which is courageous in its pursuit of justice, grounded in truth telling and of service to Indigenous and Black resistance struggles locally and globally.
Building an Indigenist Health Humanities Collective
This proposal aims to develop Indigenist Health Humanities as a new and innovative field of inquiry, building an intellectual collective capable of bridging the knowledge gap that hinders current efforts to close the gap in Indigenous health inequality. Bringing together health and the humanities through the particularity of Indigenous scholarship, a deeper understanding of the human experience of health will be developed alongside a greater understanding of the enablers to building a transdisciplinary collective of Indigenous health researchers. The potential benefits include a more sustainable, relational and ethical approach to advancing new knowledge, advancing research careers and advancing health outcomes for Indigenous people.
Partnership in Justice Health
This discussion paper was first prepared as a scoping paper designed to assist the Partnership for Justice in Health (P4JH) consider what is offered by existing scholarship about race and racism in the health system, and in particular, to identify a research approach to support the Australian Government’s National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan’s (NATSIHP) vision of ‘a health system free of racism’ (2013).
O'Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination and Global Health
The O'Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination and Global Health is founded on the recognition that racism, rather than race, creates and maintains unjust and avoidable health inequities in countries around the world. The commission will identify and promote the implementation of anti-racist actions and strategies by states, civil society actors, and global health institutions, in order to reduce structural discrimination through targeted research and collaborations that will foster policy dialogue within and across sectors that impact health and wellbeing.
UMeProject - Torres Model of Care
The UMe Project, in partnership with CATSINaM, QUT Carumba Institute and the Torres Strait Nurses Indigenous Corporation, tells the story of the Torres Model of Care through collective storytelling led by Zenadth Kes health practitioners.
The project centres Indigenous people as sovereign knowledge holders, authoring their own stories building the evidence-base for the TMoC.
NHMRC Medical Research Futures Fund Indigenous Health Grant
Awarded in 2024, this research project aims to eliminate racial discrimination and institutional racism experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples within Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Services (CHQ). The initiative focuses on staff training and development, grounded in critical race theory and the structural impacts of race, with Indigenous-led oversight to ensure cultural integrity.
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