Ethics and politics of Indigenous health: talking with Lisa Whop about epidemiology, research agendas and racism in Australia

In this episode we talk with Lisa Whop about the politics of Indigenous health research, who gets to do it, and how epidemiology and biostatistics do not simply produce neutral data.

Associate Professor Whop is from the Wagadagam tribe and Panai Clan of Mabuiag Island in the Torres Strait. She is an NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow and epidemiologist at the Australian National University and Australia’s leading authority on cervical cancer control in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.

Artwork & Audio
Music by City Plaza - Dan Bodan
Photo by Anshu A on Unsplash

References

• “Towards global elimination of cervical cancer in all groups of women” (Lancet Oncology)
• The Blackfulla Test (IndigenousX)
• "The answer to Indigenous vulnerability to coronavirus: a more equitable public health agenda" (The Conversation)
• “Indigenous Australian women’s experiences of participation in cervical screening” (PLOS One)
• “Now we say Black Lives Matter but … the fact of the matter is, we just Black matter to them” (Medical Journal of Australia)

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