A University of Queensland researcher has secured more than $1.4 million through the National Health and Medical Research Council's (NHMRC) Targeted Call for Research: Commercial determinants of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island health 2023 scheme.
Professor Mark Wenitong will co-design a framework with Indigenous communities to promote healthy food choices and help reduce disease.
Dr Wenitong and his team including Professor Bronwyn Fredericks, Dr Katherine Cullerton and Dr Megan Ferguson aim to strengthen understanding of commercial factors that influence healthy decision making in remote retail environments and develop tools to assist.
Community Enterprise Queensland, Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation, Outback Stores, Health and Wellbeing Queensland, Diabetes Australia and other institutes and universities will collaborate on the project.
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