Dr. Hasthi Dissanayake is a Research Fellow in Indigenous Health and the trial coordinator for the Elcho Health and Wellbeing project. She has significant expertise in developmental origins of health and disease, specifically in cardiovascular physiology and non-invasive techniques for assessing vascular health. She was awarded a PhD from the University of Sydney in 2019 for her work in identifying newborns at risk of later cardiovascular disease. Her current work focuses on finding sustainable long term, culturally acceptable programs for the prevention of chronic diseases in remote Australian communities.
Timothy Trudgen is a cross-cultural educator and consultant, who has worked closely with the Yolngu people of North East Arnhem Land for more than seven years. He is proficient in the Yolngu language and has extensive knowledge of Yolngu culture. His work has involved him providing education, training and cultural support to Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians, to help them understand each other’s worlds. Tim’s work builds on the 35 years that his family have been working in the Arnhem Land region empowering Yolngu people.
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7 responses to “Dr. Hasthi Dissanayake & Timothy Trudgen – ‘Traditional Aboriginal Diets & Hope for Health’”
Wow great topic! Great Presentation! Andre
0:02 Yes, I want to model my diet after people with an IQ in the ’50s
They are clearly doing everything correctly
Suppliers stocking the grocery store ???
United States indigenous people we call that com bod because of governmental commodities make us fat
I think this kind of approach needs to be used with the wider population too – most people know very little about nutrition and the proper human diet.
we really need to update this scientist’s vocabulary. Calories? really? when this nonsense of calories ingested thinking is going to end / HDL- LDL Cholesterol? seriously? , Both are Lipoprotein carriers, not Cholesterol molecules.
Working in prisons in northern Queensland for 35 years I have found Aboriginal peoples with terrible a western diet…many of them over 30 with diabetes aand need medical help while incarcerated.