The health and wellbeing of Indigenous and Tribal peoples around the globe: Ensuring and promoting best practice in research

TY - JOUR

T1 - The health and wellbeing of Indigenous and Tribal peoples around the globe

T2 - Ensuring and promoting best practice in research

AU - Griffiths, Kalinda

AU - Diaz, Abbey

AU - Whop, Lisa J.

AU - Cunningham, Joan

N1 - Funding Information: One especially important signal of priority is funding. Doing research requires resources, both human and otherwise, and lack of resources can be an important impediment to conducting the right research by the right people in the right way. Although we did not specifically request information about funding, this was routinely provided by authors in the Funding section of the manuscript template. For the papers included in the Special Issue, funding sources varied widely. Some papers reported no external funding for the project, while others reported project funding from highly competitive grant bodies and/or from universities, local health districts/boards, state and national government departments, charitable trusts, and non-government organisations. In addition, there was substantial ‘people support’ for many authors, including fellowships and scholarships from national research funding bodies, universities, and other organisations. Some funding bodies have explicitly made research on the health and wellbeing of Indigenous and Tribal peoples a priority in recent years. For example, in Australia, the NHMRC has earmarked at least 5% of its research budget for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research [51]. This target was reportedly met in 2008 and subsequently exceeded [52], although it must be noted that not all of the funds have been awarded to projects led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers. In New Zealand, the Health Research Council (HRC) has a range of mechanisms to advance Ma¯ori knowledge, resources, and people and to support Ma¯ori sovereignty in research. For example, since 2019 all research proposals submitted to the HRC are scored on their potential to contribute to Ma¯ori health advancement, and grants are available to support communities to undertake research that meets their specific needs [53]. Initiatives such as these send a clear signal to the research community about the importance of work in this area. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2022/1/1

Y1 - 2022/1/1

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85121709304&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.3390/ijerph19010261

DO - 10.3390/ijerph19010261

M3 - Editorial

C2 - 35010521

AN - SCOPUS:85121709304

VL - 19

JO - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

JF - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

SN - 1660-4601

IS - 1

M1 - 261

ER -