Background
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ear and Hearing Health Data and Reporting Advisory Group (EHHDRAG) was established in 2023. The Group provides expert guidance to the AIHW on the reporting of information about ear and hearing health of First Nations people. This includes:
- providing expert advice on the analysis and reporting of information in the Ear and hearing health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people series of reports and ensuring the reports are relevant to ear and hearing health policy and services
- identifying data gaps and other relevant data sources
- providing expert advice on ear and hearing health conditions and their determinants, and ear and hearing health policy and services.
Meetings
The EHHDRAG is chaired by Professor Kelvin Kong. The meetings are generally online and held up to twice each year.
Membership
The EHHDRAG is a multidisciplinary group whose members are appointed because they are experts in the ear and hearing health of First Nations people from a clinical, policy, research, service-delivery or advocacy perspective.
Membership as at 12 June 2024 (names are listed alphabetically by surname)
Member name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
Dr Fadwa Al-Yaman | AIHW |
Assoc Prof Amarjit Anand | NT Health |
Ms Anne-Marie Banfield | National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) |
Dr Chris Brennan-Jones | Head of Ear Health, Telethon Kids Institute Associate Professor, Curtin University |
Ms Claire Clack | Department of Health and Aged Care |
Ms Michele Clapin | Hearing Australia |
Mr Dennis Conlon (Moppy) | Deadly Ears Queensland |
Mr Mark Fitzpatrick | Telethon Speech and Hearing |
Prof Hasantha Gunasekera | NSW Health and University of Sydney |
Prof Kelvin Kong (Chair) | University of Newcastle |
Clinical Assoc Prof Jafri Kuthubutheen | University of Western Australia WA Country Health Service, Department of Health |
Ms Rose Lougheed | Justice Health NSW |
Prof Catherine McMahon | HEAR Centre, Macquarie University |
Mr Jamie Newman | Orange Aboriginal Medical Service |
Prof Stephen O’Leary, MBBS, BMedSc, PhD, FRACS | William Gibson Chair and Head of Otolaryngology, The University of Melbourne National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia) Practitioner Fellow |
Mr Timothy Saunders | National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) |
Dr Jacqueline Stephens | Flinders University |
Assoc Prof Valerie Sung | Murdoch Children's Research Institute |
Ms Valerie Swift | Telethon Kids Institute |
Contact us
Secretariat support for the EHHDRAG is provided by the Eye, Ear and Hearing Health Unit in the First Nations Health and Welfare Group at the AIHW.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ear and Hearing Health Data and Reporting Advisory Group Secretariat
AIHW GPO Box 570
Canberra ACT 2601
Email: [email protected]