Community co-design reports

Co-design is central to OurDNA. Our workshops are just part of a process of working in partnership with community members to make sure that the program meets their needs.

At our workshops, community members help adapt the program to suit them. They tell us how we can reach members of their community, and what the best ways to do so are. By working together, we're ensuring OurDNA is delivered in a way that is appropriate for their community.

 

Filipino community

In partnership with the Filipino community in Sydney and Melbourne, we’ve conducted:

  • Two information sessions
  • Three co-design workshops
  • On-going consultation and awareness raising activities

Vietnamese community

In partnership with the Vietnamese community in Sydney and Melbourne, we’ve conducted:

  • Two information sessions
  • Two co-design workshops
  • On-going awareness raising activities

 

Do you have questions?

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At the moment, Australians from the following ancestry groups are under represented or entirely missing in genetic resources:

  • East African (e.g., Ethiopian, Ghanaian, Kenyan, Mauritian, Somali, South Sudanese, and Sudanese)
  • North African and Middle Eastern (e.g., Assyrian, Chaldean, Egyptian, Iranian, Iraqi, Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian and Turkish)
  • Oceanian (e.g., Fijian, Mãori, Papua New Guinean, Samoan, and Tongan)
  • South-East Asian (e.g., Cambodian, Filipino, Indonesian, Malay, Thai, and Vietnamese)

Australian doctors have also told us that it is hard to find information about these ancestry groups in the resources and databases they use to diagnose genetic and health conditions. 

OurDNA is working to engage with the communities underrepresented in genetic resources. Visit this page to check which communities we are actively working with.

While we are not working directly in Indigenous communities, we are an active member of the ALIGN and CONNECT consortia, national Indigenous-led efforts that are working to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in genomic medicine and research.

We provide technical advice for the development of genomic data infrastructure for nationally consistent, culturally appropriate, ethical storage, management, and sharing of genomic data to benefit Indigenous Australians.

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