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What is the Australian Multicultural Health Collaborative?
The Collaborative works at the national level to voice the broad health and wellbeing needs, including research, of Australia’s culturally, ethnically, and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities.
The Collaborative represents the voices of a wide range of CALD health and well-being issues at the national level through a formal membership structure. This structure includes CALD consumers, health and wellbeing services, health and social care practitioners, researchers, and organisations and institutions primarily focused on health for CALD populations. The Collaborative also welcomes ‘mainstream’ services and organisations with a significant commitment to CALD health and wellbeing as members and enters into partnerships with relevant national organisations. The title ‘Collaborative’ signifies the manner in which members work together – in genuine collaboration on agreed priority areas, drawing on each other’s focus areas and expertise on specific issues.
The Collaborative acknowledges the important work of RHeaNA, FASSTT, SCoA, RCOA and the Migrant and Refugee Health Partnership and looks forward to supporting and promoting their activities.
Read our Foundation Document
For more information, read the Foundation Document and a one page overview on how the Collaborative works.
Our People
The Group has been formed to guide the initial establishment of the Collaborative. Members reflect the membership categories of the Collaborative: consumers; health and wellbeing services; practitioners; and researchers.
Over time an ongoing governance structure will be developed for endorsement by members.
