Community Engagement

Working together so all Australians can benefit from genetic medicine

Partnering for an equitable future

OurDNA is partnering with multicultural communities to build an equitable future for genomic medicine in Australia. We can’t do this work without you!

Our community partners are helping us co-design recruitment approaches that meet their communities’ needs. With their help, we hope the OurDNA program will enable thousands of diverse Australians to be part of genetic research.

We are working closely with representatives from the multicultural sector to ensure that multicultural communities’ interests are central to everything we do.

Our approach to inviting communities

OurDNA invites communities that are underrepresented in global databases and have a high clinical need for genetic data. We aim to include all underrepresented groups eventually, but we're starting with a few.

There are many Australian ancestry groups that need to be represented in genetics research. In the program’s first few years, we are starting work with some of the larger communities whose ancestries come from the underrepresented regions. But we don’t intend to stop there!

With the participation of our initial priority communities, we are developing an inclusive model for genomics research. We hope this will soon allow us to invite many more diverse Australians to be part of OurDNA.  

Who are we working with?

OurDNA works with community partners to ensure that the program meets communities’ needs and serves their interests.

Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia (FECCA)

Philippine Community Council of NSW (PCC-NSW)

View our co-designed reports