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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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Visitor working on anti-malaria programs for rural Iran 

Published on 29 January, 2004 

Iran's Assistant Professor Fatemeh Rakhshani (pictured right with CQU's Dr Sansnee Jirojwong) is nearing the end of a six-month sabbatical research visit to Central Queensland University Rockhampton.

PhotoID:1257CQU School of Nursing and Health Studies staff have been providing input for the visitor's World Health Organisation research aimed at devising training for malaria health educators.

Assistant Professor Rakhshani is Dean of the Zahedan School of Health at the Zahedan University of Medical Sciences in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

She will present her research findings at the 18th World Conference on Health Promotion and Health Education in Melbourne during April 26-30.

The visitor has also established collaborative research activities with CQU senior lecturer Dr Sansnee Jirojwong, so that issues relating to health among disadvantaged groups in different social and cultural settings can be discussed and compared.

Assistant Professor Rakhshani will be at CQU until March 22.