Our community partners

Our community partners are helping us co-design approaches that meet their communities' needs. This means we work with a group of community members to figure out how to best reach, talk with, and invite people from their community to take part in OurDNA.

Our partners are also driving recruitment in their communities by inviting community members to take part and working with us to organise OurDNA community events. With their help, we hope to engage thousands of Australians from diverse communities to be part of OurDNA and shape the future of healthcare.

We are also working closely with representatives from the multicultural sector who are advising us on program-wide decisions. With the Australian Multicultural Health Collaborative, an initiative of the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia, we have brought together the OurDNA Multicultural Consultation Group: advisors who are helping us to ensure community interests are central to OurDNA, providing input on things like how we share data.

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Our key partners (organisations)

Our key partners (individuals)

Filipino community

  • Cesar Bartolome (PCC-NSW)
  • Grace Liston (PCC-NSW)
  • Mila Cichello
  • Maureen Santiago (PCC-NSW)
  • Ria Velasquez

Vietnamese community

  • Anh Linh Pham (VWA in NSW)
  • Jessica Thai (AVWA)
  • Thao Ha (AVWA)
  • Tracey Tran
  • Van Trinh

Lebanese community

  • Amira Issa
  • Bereha Khodr
  • Kamal Hadid
  • Leila Alloush (VASS)
  • Lina Hassan (VASS)
  • Wafa Jeha 

Samoan community

  • Loudeen Lam
  • Malia Seumalu

Tongan community

  • Sālome Feimoefiafi

Fijian community

  • Katarina Driu

 

Our bicultural staff

  • Mi Nguyen (AVWA) 

 

OurDNA Multicultural Consultation Group

  • Abdisa Kalbesa
  • Basim Alansari
  • Dina Kerr
  • Dr. Jerome Babate
  • Dr. Saba Nabi OAM
  • Joyce Cho
  • Naseema Mustapha
  • Nidia Raya Martinez (Australian Multicultural Health Collaborative)
  • Sylvia Coombe

 

Special thanks to

  • Australian Arabic Council (Will Abdo)
  • Australian Lebanese Medical Association
  • David Joshua Delos Reyes
  • Australian Lebanese Association Incorporated
  • Thuy Linh Duong
  • Victorian Lebanese Community Council (Michael Kheirallah)

 

Our event partners

  • Adhika and Kababaihang Rizalista Inc.
  • Alpha Phi Omega
  • Ateneo Alumni Association Australia
  • Australian Vietnamese Health Professionals Association of NSW
  • Bayanihan in Melbourne Inc.
  • Filipino Australian Friendship Association of Geelong INC (FAFAG)
  • Filipino Australian Seniors Association
  • Filipino Ballers Club Melbourne
  • Filipino Nurses Diaspora Network
  • Filipino Student Council
  • NARRA Filipino group
  • Philippine Australian Sports and Culture (PASC)
  • Philippine Fiesta of Victoria Incorporated
  • Pilipino Elderly Association of South East Region (PEASER)
  • Sydney Sonatas
  • The Empowered Australian Multicultural Society Inc. (TEAMS)
  • Vietnamese Student Association
  • Young Generation Seniors (YG Seniors)

 

Our contributors

  • Angie Tran
  • Annie Bui
  • Bianca Burton
  • Chung Nguyễn
  • Cynthia Nguyen
  • Danna Ingaran
  • Darci Ve'etūtū
  • David Joshua Delos Reyes
  • Francis Nguyen
  • Han Le
  • Hanniel Almasco
  • Hoang Tran
  • Jessica Thai
  • Joanna Marie Li
  • John Cichello
  • Jonathan Nguyen
  • Kayla Tran
  • Kenneth M. Baba
  • Le Tam Tu
  • Maria Adriano
  • Mike Ariel Plaza
  • Moni Manu
  • Peter Cichello
  • Pita Feimoefiafi
  • Phung Ngo
  • Ricky Nguyen
  • Thanh Nguyen
  • Thuy Nguyen Le
  • Tony Vu
  • Ysrael Camacho
  • Zuong Dang

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OurDNA o se galuega faailoga a le Centre for Population Genomics. O le Nofoaga Autu ua faatuina ia:

  • Aofia ai nu'u e le'i fa'atusalia i su'esu'ega faa-genomic;
  • Su'esu'e le aoga ma le soifua maloloina talafeagai o kenera o le tagata; ma
  • Fa'aleleia le su'esu'ega ma togafitiga o fa'ama'i o le kenera.

O le Nofoaga Autu ose fuafuaga faatasi e le o maua - ni-tupe mama mai le lua o a'oga su'esu'e ta'utaua a Ausetalia: o le Garvan Institute of Medical Research i Sini ma le Murdoch Children’s Research Institute i Melepone.

OurDNA ma fa'alapotopotoga e aofia ai vaega ole tupuaga e tele lava ina misi i su'esu'ega fa'afomai. Matou te galulue fa'atasi ma fa'alapotopotoga tu'ufa'atasi, ta'ita'i o nu'u ma fa'alapotopotoga e fausia punaoa o su'esu'ega fa'a kenera e fai ma sui o nu'u uma.

O punaoa tau kenera o loo fausia e le OurDNA o le a mafai ai e tagata Ausetalia uma mo tupulaga o lumanai e manuia mai le alualu i luma i su'esu'ega faafomai.  

OurDNA e faatupeina e:  

  • Nofoaga autu mo le fa'alapotopotoga faavae mo Population Genomics:  Fa'alapotopotoga o Su'esu'ega Fa'afoma'i i Garvan ma le Fa'alapotopotoga o Su'esu'ega o Tamaiti i Murdoch.
  • Tagata e foa'i tupe i la matou suesuega
  • Fa'aputugatupe mo Sue'su'ega Fa'afoma'i a le Malo Ausetalia ile lumana'i (foa'i 2015969) (CIA Daniel MacArthur, 2022-2027) mai le Misiona a le Soifua Maloloina mo le Lumana'i a le Genomics ma le Soifua Malolina Fa'aleatunu'u Pulega o Su'esu'ega Fa'afoma'i (NHMRC fesoasoani i tagata sailiili 2009982 (CIA Daniel MacArthru, 2022-2026}. O mea uma o lo'o i totonu o lenei pepa fa'asalalau ole matafaioi a le tusitala ma e le atagia ai manatu o le Commonwealth of Australia po'o le NHMRC.
  • O le polokalame OurDNA e maua mai foi le lagolago mai le Google’s Digital Future Initiative. Faitau atili e uiga i le galulue fa'atasi iinei.

OurDNA o loo fa'atupeina nei seia oo i le faaiuga o le 2027. O le fa'amoemoe e fa'aauau la matou galuega seia o'o ina avea uma sui fa'alapotopotoga i Ausetalia mo le OurDNA database ma fa'ataitaiga ia avanoa mo le umi e mafai ai mo tagata su'esu'e.

I le taimi nei, o tagata Ausetalia mai vaega o augatuaa o loo mulimuli mai o loo i lalo o le sui poo le misi atoa i mea tau punaoa o le:

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

Ua ta'u mai foi e foma'i Ausetalia ia i matou e faigata ona maua fa'amatalaga e uiga i nei auga tuaa i vaega i punaoa ma fa'amaumauga latou te fa'aaogaina e su'esu'e ai tulaga fa'a kenera ma le soifua maloloina.

O lo'o galulue le OurDNA e fa'afeso'otai ma nu'u e le o fa'aalia i punaoa fa'avae. Asiasi i lenei itulau e siaki po'o fea le nu'u o loo matou galulue malosi fa'atasi.

E ui ina matou le galulue sa'o i totonu o nuu Indigenous, ae o matou o se sui malosi o ALIGN ma CONNECT consortia, taumafaiga a le atunuu o loo taitaia e le atunuu o loo galulue e faamalosia tagata Apoliki ma Torres Strait Islander i vailaau ma su'esu'ega.

Matou te tu'uina atu fautuaga fa'apitoa mo le atina'eina o fa'amaumauga fa'apitoa mo  fa'alapotopotoga talafeagai fa'ale-aganu'u, teuina lelei fa'aleaganu'u, pulega, ma le fefa'asoasoa'i o fa'amatalaga genomic e manuia ai tagata Indigenous Australians.