Poche Centre for Indigenous Health

Our mission is equitable health and wellbeing for Indigenous peoples through research excellence.

The UQ Poche Centre is part of the national Poche Indigenous Health Network, together with Poche Centres at the University of Melbourne, the University of Sydney, the University of Western Australia and Flinders University in Adelaide and Alice Springs.

We exist to provide national and international leadership in Indigenous health research and research workforce development to improve life expectancy and transform health inequities and injustices in Australia and other international settings.

With a mandate to respond to challenges in Indigenous health, the Poche Centre undertakes and facilitates a broad range of transdisciplinary research activities to improve health systems and determinants of health. Prioritised on the life-course, our research agenda is aligned with the needs of the Centre’s partners and aims to develop the next generation of researchers to rise to the challenge of Indigenous health research.

Our research

Focusing on Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, we undertake multidisciplinary research to enhance understanding of diverse health issues affecting Indigenous peoples, reduce health inequity and improve health outcomes.

Our team

We are a multidisciplinary team of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous researchers working together to enhance understandings of diverse health issues affecting Indigenous peoples.

Our story

The Poche Centre for Indigenous Health was established in 2015, made possible by the generous support of philanthropists Mr Greg Poche AO and Mrs Kay Van Norton Poche AO.

“We know that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s health will only improve when our mob leads the way. "It's about ensuring communities drive the research agenda, making sure that we’re supporting our peoples to become the future leaders in health research, done by us, for us, with us. It’s also making sure that our research has direct impact, creating real change and transforming health inequities that have been here too long."