About our programs
We partner with First Nations peoples to run critical programs that improve healthcare across Queensland.
We empower the First Nations health sector to increase access to care, support prevention and expand community services, across 4 priority areas.
Eliminating racism
We’re changing how we work to better support First Nations peoples.
Our initiatives focus on:
- making services more culturally safe, inclusive and accessible
- shifting cultural capability into practice
- creating statewide anti-racism learning and development opportunities
- positioning anti-racism into policy.
Reshaping the system
We’re reshaping the health system to meet the needs of First Nations peoples.
Our initiatives focus on:
- prioritising partnerships with First Nations-led health services
- improving how health care services and other social services work together
- strengthening regional and community based care to reduce emergency department visits and shorten hospital stays.
Transforming care
We’re improving models of care to reduce the impact of long term illness and improve quality of life.
Our initiatives focus on:
- preventing and treating acute rheumatic fever early to reduce rheumatic heart disease in remote communities
- expanding healthy housing programs to more communities.
Strengthening our workforce
We’re empowering our First Nations workforce to provide best practice innovative care across service boundaries.
Our initiatives focus on:
- providing improved pathways to health careers
- supporting the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce to provide clinically and culturally safe care
- embedding First Nations perspectives across the health system
- building capability across the First Nations workforce by supporting professional development
- supporting the implementation of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce (Queensland Health) Certified Agreement.