Working with EDs and Indigenous communities
Working with EDs and Indigenous communities
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About this event
Like almost all health conditions, the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples living with eating disorders is significant. The most prevalent eating disorder in community is night feeding, and body image upsets. The risks of ED are of course complex, and seemingly more so in Indigenous communities- high levels of food insecurity, and family and community violence can lead to ways of adapting that rob people of health and happiness. Let's talk about binging, food insecurity issues, and the cloak of obesity that some Indigenous people wear.
The webinar will be hosted by Professor Aunty Kerrie Doyle, Associate Dean, Indigenous Health in Western Sydney University’s School of Medicine. A Winninninni/Cadigal/Irish woman, Professor Doyle was one of the first Indigenous women to graduate from Oxford University. She is also the Chair and Research Lead of the Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing Clinical Academic Group at Maridulu Budyari Gumal, the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE); member of the Council of Elders for the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM); and board member for Ngaramura Aboriginal, Maori and Pacific Islander Corporation. Professor Doyle has spent her career dedicated to improving outcomes for Australia’s Indigenous population. Her research interests include: education, promoting applied cultural proficiency research, social determinants of health and Indigenous health. She has published extensively in academic journals, presented papers at national and international