Advances in First Nations Injury

Edited by:
Sarah Derrett, PhD, University of Otago, New Zealand
Courtney Ryder, PhD, Flinders University, Australia

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This Collection will address Advances in First Nations Injury in Injury Epidemiology, a peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to advancing the scientific foundation for injury prevention and control.

First Nations peoples have occupied and cared for their ancestral lands since time immemorial. Ongoing colonisation continues to impact on First Nations communities globally, through significant health inequities, where injury is a leading cause of morbidity and premature mortality. Injuries are preventable, targeted co-designed research with First Nations communities is needed to understand and appreciate overall injury burden, but also for community owned and driven prevention and support programs.

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to the following Sustainable Development Goals: 3 - Good Health and Well-being, 10 - Reduced Inequalities, 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities, 13 - Climate Action, and 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.

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Meet the Editors

Sarah Derrett, PhD, University of Otago, New Zealand

Sarah is a Pākehā (non-Indigenous) researcher from the Ngāi Tahu Māori Health Research Unit at the University of Otago, Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu (New Zealand; NZ). She is an active researcher; her research is focused on health system experiences, disability, injury-related rehabilitation, health-related quality of life outcomes, using both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Currently, Sarah is co-PI, with Professor Emma Wyeth, of two longitudinal injury cohort studies focused on health and disability outcomes for injured New Zealanders – the Prospective Outcomes of Injury Study (POIS) and the Trauma Outcomes Project; both studies have a specific focus on outcomes for injured Māori (the Indigenous people of NZ). She teaches qualitative research methods, has been a member since 2001 of the international EuroQol Group responsible for widely used measures of health including the EQ-5D, sits on various health advisory groups, is a Trustee of Bowel Cancer New Zealand, and the Kōputai Lodge Trust Board (a community mental health respite services provider).

Courtney Ryder, PhD, Flinders University, Australia

Dr. Courtney Ryder is the Discipline Lead for Injury Studies in the College of Medicine and Public Health and Aboriginal injury epidemiologist. Her research is leading new ways of working with Indigenous Data through knowledge interface methodology and Indigenous Data sovereignty to change the deficit discourse surrounding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health statistics. While Ryder is involved a chief investigator on a range of injury projects, she currently holds a NHMRC investigator grant focused on transforming injury for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children through innovative knowledge gain and co-designed interventions. With over decades experience in cultural safety and Aboriginal health education, Ryder is viewed as a transformative educator having designed and coordinated large and complex topics, both internal and online, pertaining to Aboriginal health and social health sciences in the Master of Public Health, Doctor of Medicine, Nursing, Midwifery, Health Science and Public Health programs at Flinders. Work which has transformed student learning in this space, and is presently being used to train clinicians.

About the Collection

Dear Colleagues,

First Nations peoples have occupied and cared for their ancestral lands since time immemorial. With over 476 million First Nations peoples globally, representing over 5000 distinct cultures speaking an estimated 7000 languages across 90 countries.¹ Despite this sovereignty, ongoing colonisation continues to impact on First Nations communities globally, through significant health inequities, where injury is a leading cause of morbidity and premature mortality. Injuries are preventable, targeted co-designed research with First Nations communities is needed to understand and appreciate overall injury burden, but also for community owned and driven prevention and support programs.

This collection also relates and advances research surrounding the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which has been adopted by all United Nations Member States. Specific SDGs for this Collection include: Goal 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Goal 10 – Reduced Inequalities, Goal 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13 – Climate Action, Goal 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.

For this Collection we are seeking articles from First Nation Government and non-Government Organisations, First Nation Elders, health professionals (including health workers and practitioners) and researchers (including postgraduate student researchers), or non-Indigenous researchers working on programs and research with and for First Nation communities. We welcome submissions which address innovation and advances in the way in which injury research is developed and implemented with and by First Nations communities. This includes relevant methodology (Indigenous knowledges and methodologies), viewpoint/discussion articles are also welcome. Articles which are led (first authored) by First Nation authors are especially sought (see: www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/about-us.html).

If you would like more information about this call please contact the Co-Editors: Courtney Ryder (courtney.ryder@flinders.edu.au) and Sarah Derrett (sarah.derrett@otago.ac.nz).

References

United Nations (2023). International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.

Submission Guidelines

This Collection welcomes submission of research articles (quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods), viewpoint/discussion articles, scoping or systematic literature reviews, and methodology articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal.

Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “Advances in First Nations Injury" under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.