ICT, Health and Multicultural Australian Communities

My VicHealth funded health communication research at Victoria University involves working with people from a diverse range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds. It will provide policy and practice options for the best use of information communication technology (ICT) to generate awareness around health and wellbeing issues  with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities.

This research focuses on:

  • health promotion with CALD communities such as the Sudanese, Vietnamese and Pacific Islanders
  • diabetes, heart disease, obesity, exercise, healthy eating, mental health and other priority health and wellbeing issues
  • chronic disease self-management
  • community driven health and wellbeing communication
  • use and access of websites, online social networking (Twitter, YouTube, Facebook), mobile phones, GPS technology, DVDs, digital cameras, broadcast media
  • multilingual and culturally appropriate ICT resources
  • language, culture, racism, discrimination
  • use and application of ICT in culturally sensitive and affordable ways
  • digital storytelling

Here are some of my relevant publications:

iPhone Junkies Fuel Techsclusivity, Eureka Street, 2008.
Confessions of a Videogame Junkie, Eureka Street, 2008.
Confronting Housing Inequality, Eureka Street, 2009.

My work forms part of a range of diversity and health initiatives being undertaken by the Institute for Community, Ethnicity and Policy Alternatives (ICEPA) at Victoria University.

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