Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory (AMSANT) is the peak body for Aboriginal community controlled health services in the Northern Territory, and includes 26 member services in urban, regional and remote locations. AMSANT is committed to supporting and strengthening the work of its member services through activities including workforce support, quality improvement initiatives, advocacy, policy development and research in order to promote the health and well-being of Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory.
Anyinginyi Health Aboriginal Corporation provides primary healthcare services to the Aboriginal people of Tennant Creek and the surrounding Barkly region. Established in 1984, Anyinginyi’s central objective is to relieve the poverty, sickness, disempowerment, serious social and economic disadvantage, and dysfunction that affects the Aboriginal population of the Region. It is Aboriginal community controlled and governed by a board of directors. Services include primary health care, social and emotional well-being, public health/health promotion, sports and lifestyle, and corporate services. Anyinginyi’s service area stretches north of Tennant Creek to Elliott, eastward almost to the Queensland border and south to Ali Curung.
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute (the Baker Institute) is Australia’s premier medical research institute focussed on reducing death and disability from cardiovascular disease, diabetes and related disorders. Baker Institute Central Australia was established in Alice Springs in 2007 to help address the profound disadvantage experienced by Aboriginal people through evidence-based research, clinical services and education. The Institute places a strong focus on working with local providers to build knowledge and practical contributions to the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Central Australian Aboriginal Congress Aboriginal Corporation (Congress) is a national leader in Aboriginal community controlled primary health care and is the largest Aboriginal community controlled health service in the Northern Territory. Congress provides comprehensive primary health care services and works to change the social, political, economic and environmental determinants of illness impacting central Australian Aboriginal residents. Congress delivers services through specialised divisions in Alice Springs and auspices remote health services in five central Australian Aboriginal communities.
Central Australia Health Service (CAHS) is one of two statutory health services established under the Health Services Act 2014, and is a body corporate. It provides a range of health services, from primary to tertiary, across Central Australia in accordance with its Service Delivery Agreement with the Northern Territory Government Department of Health.
Centre for Remote Health, a joint Centre of Flinders University and Charles Darwin University, contributes to the improved health outcomes of people in remote communities of the Northern Territory and Australia through the provision of high quality tertiary education, training and research focusing on the discipline of Remote Health.
Charles Darwin University (CDU) delivers a broad range of tertiary education to students through its eight campuses and centres in the Northern Territory. As the only university based in the NT, CDU recognises the important role it plays in contributing to and providing leadership in the NT’s intellectual, professional, social and cultural life, and environmental wellbeing, and for meeting the current and future needs for tertiary education, training and knowledge in the Territory.
CRANAplus is the peak professional body for the remote and isolated health workforce in Australia. We are a member-based, not-for-profit organisation that has provided nearly 40 years of education, support and professional services for the multi-disciplinary remote health workforce. Our goal is to support and promote the delivery of safe, high quality primary healthcare to people living in remote and isolated Australia. Our values are Integrity, Social Justice, Excellence, Respect and Inclusiveness.
Flinders University is a leading international university in Australia with a record of excellence and innovation in teaching, research and community engagement. Flinders NT is the home institution for two additional CAAHSN partners, Centre for Remote Health and Poche Centre.
Menzies School of Health Research (Menzies) is one of Australia’s leading medical research institutes dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of Indigenous Australians, and a leader in global and tropical research into life-threatening illnesses, Menzies continues to translate its research into effective partnerships and programs in communities across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
With a history of over 35 years of scientific discovery and public health achievement, Menzies continues its endeavour to break the cycle of disease and to reduce health inequities in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, particularly for disadvantaged populations.
Poche Centre for Indigenous Health is part of a national network of Poche Centres. It contributes to the improved health outcomes of Aboriginal people in remote communities of the Northern Territory and Australia in partnership with Aboriginal communities, through conducting high quality research, education, and training.
Ngaanyatjarra Health Service (NHS), formed in 1985, is a community controlled health service that provides culturally appropriate comprehensive primary health care services to the Ngaanyatjarra people living on the Ngaanyatjarra lands in Western Australia. NHS delivers clinic services at 12 remote locations, runs an aged care facility, and provides a range of supportive health programs. The administration and management of NHS is undertaken from Alice Springs, Northern Territory, the closest major town.
Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council (Aboriginal Corporation) is led by women’s law, authority and culture to deliver health, social and cultural services for all Anangu. NPYWC is governed and directed by Aboriginal women across 26 desert communities in the cross-border regions of WA, SA and the NT.
Nganampa Health Council is an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation operating on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in the far north west of South Australia. Across this area, NHC operates seven clinics, the Tjilpi Pampaku Ngura Aged Care facility and assorted health related programs including aged care, sexual health, environmental health, health worker training, dental, women’s health, male health, children’s health, immunisation, eye health and mental health.
Western Desert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation (Purple House) is an innovative Indigenous-owned and run health service operating from its base in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Purple House’s mission is ‘Making all our families well’. Since the opening of the first dialysis clinic in Kintore in 2004, it now operates 16 remote clinics in NT, SA and WA offers remote dialysis, social support, aged-care and NDIS services, Primary Health care and a mobile dialysis unit called the Purple Truck, which allows patients to head back home to visit family, for festivals, funerals and other cultural business. It also runs a bush medicine social enterprise.
