Lowitja Institute Australia's National Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research

About Lowitja Institute Australia's National Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research

The Lowitja Institute is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisation working for the health and wellbeing of Australia's First Peoples through high impact quality research, knowledge exchange and by supporting a new generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health researchers. It is host to the Lowitja Institute Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health CRC until June 2019, with funding of $25million over five years.

The Institute emerged from a history of Cooperative Research Centres first established in 1997, funded by the Australian Government CRC Programme. The Institute and its predecessor CRC organisations have led a substantial reform agenda in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research by working with communities, researchers and policymakers, with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people setting the agenda and driving the outcomes. At present, the Lowitja Institute CRC works in partnership with twenty-two Participants around Australia, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health organisations; State, Territory and Australian government departments; and academic research institutions.