NewMed is committed to improving the health of Australia’s First Nations people

    Throughout our curriculum, we are building student-centered opportunities to engage in regional, rural, and remote Australia. NewMed seeks to enrich the health opportunities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, Australia’s first people. NewMed aims to integrate the knowledge and practices of Australia’s first peoples into our curriculum and assessment practices as core values:

    • our commitment to graduating culturally safe practitioners
    • our commitment to embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health content throughout the curriculum and ensure that our teaching and learning practices are culturally safe and inclusive
    • our commitment to providing students with opportunities to learn how to address systemic disadvantage, power differentials and historical injustices in their practice
    Health of multicultural Australia
    NewMed acknowledges the rich tapestry of Australia’s multicultural demographic.
    The traditional name for Brisbane, Australia is Meeanjin. It was given by the Turrbal people and means “the place of the blue water lily”.
    The traditional name for Brisbane, Australia is Meeanjin. It was given by the Turrbal people and means “the place of the blue water lily”.

    “We acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands and waterways on which NewMed campuses are situated and where our students live and study.

    We pay respects to Australia's First Nations elders past and present and to future generations whose culture, health, and welfare are reflected in NewMed's core values.”

    Artwork by Professor Brad Murphy a proud Kamilaroi doctor from North-Western NSW, a Rural Generalist with extensive rural and remote clinical experience, now based in Bundaberg, Queensland.