Jo Luke

Constructing Aboriginal health

Principle supervisor: Prof Sandra Eades
Co-supervisors: Prof Margaret Kelaher (Centre for Health Policy, The University of Melbourne) and Prof David Thomas (Menzies School of Health Research)

This PhD focuses on the largely quantitative scientific disciplines of epidemiology, evidence-based practice and evaluation and their longstanding histories with Aboriginal people. It will examine how the centering of Western knowledge and values in these disciplines is scientifically flawed and that more robust quantitative sciences can and do come about through the leadership and full inclusion of Aboriginal people and organisations.