Melbourne Poche Centre for Indigenous Health

The Melbourne Poche Centre for Indigenous Health has set a strong foundation toward establishing a new generation of Indigenous health leaders and researchers. Based at the University of Melbourne, a global leader in higher education, we offer Indigenous-led programs that build Indigenous health leadership capital and create academic pathways for PhD and post-doctoral achievement and research impact. Indigenous peoples have always had a strong knowledge economy and intellectual tradition. Interfacing with the western academy, these are assets in our work to transform Indigenous health and ensuring sustainable futures. The Centre draws on tanderrum, a Kulin ceremony for coming together, as the philosophical foundation for our work. As a diplomatic rite, tanderrum was used to grant safe passage and offer access to resources. With place as its foundation, the ceremony uses relationship and negotiation to take carriage of and safeguard Indigenous engagement. Our aim is to build loca...