Aboriginal Workforce

SAHMRI’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Workforce Strategy is designed to increase the number of Indigenous people within our community across the entire organisation and at all levels. We believe that employing more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will bring great benefits to SAHMRI and the many communities that we work with and for.

Our workforce strategy commits to grow the next generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers by promoting career pathways. We commit to attract young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to a career in health and medical science by being engaging advocates for STEM in our communities. We commit to recruit passionate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to SAHMRI in a variety of roles across the institute. We commit to retain these people by providing an inclusive and culturally safe professional environment while fostering opportunities to become research and community leaders. We commit to develop a level of research excellence, individually and collectively, that delivers impact for Indigenous health care, Indigenous communities more generally, the broader SAHMRI community and society as a whole.