Research Alliance for Urban Community Controlled Health Services (RAUCCHS)

In an Australian first, leaders in First Nations health in our capital cities have joined forces.

The establishment of the National Research Alliance for Urban Community Controlled Health Services (RAUCCHS) is an opportunity to bring together researchers and urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled health service (AICCHS) providers to deliver an innovative national Indigenous urban health research agenda.

This research agenda will be developed in consultation from the outset with urban AICCHS (in the first instance urban refers to capital cities) with support from the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH) and the UQ Poche Centre.

The Alliance will utilise the expertise and capacity of its 28 members to achieve transformational changes in systems, policy, and care through world class research that enhances the capacity of AICCHS to achieve their respective and collective
vision for their community’s wellbeing. 

Objectives:

• Ensure culturally valid ethical principles guide the Alliance research agenda.
• Increase connectivity and linkage of urban AICCHS to form a comprehensive health care research network.
• Deliver a research agenda consistent with the values and aspirations of the Alliance members.
• Provide reciprocal capacity building opportunities for members of the Alliance.