Our vision

We’re working towards a more equitable, inclusive world where children, families and communities experience safety, belonging and opportunities for growth.

Our purpose

The Intergenerational Health group aims to improve the health and wellbeing of children, young people and families. We focus on generating and translating knowledge to promote resilience and break intergenerational cycles of trauma, family violence and social inequity.

Our key areas of focus

We have three main areas of focus:

  • Lived experience: building a greater understanding of the causes and consequences of intergenerational trauma at a population level, and within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, migrant and refugee background communities.
  • Strengthening the capacity of policy, workforce and systems to provide culturally safe and trauma responsive care to families and communities.
  • Knowledge into action: working in partnership with communities, workforce and policy makers to create and translate knowledge into action to promote resilience and address the causes and impacts of intergenerational trauma, family violence and social inequity.

We collaborate with a diverse range of health services and community-based agencies, including primary care services, public hospitals, early childhood services, Aboriginal community organisations and refugee advocacy and settlement services.

Currently, the Intergenerational Health group has four program areas:

  • Resilience and mental health
  • Aboriginal health
  • Refugee and migrant health
  • Family health and wellbeing

Intergenerational Health group initiatives

Stronger Futures Centre of Research Excellence

We lead the Stronger Futures Centre of Research Excellence, Australia’s first national collaborative centre working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and communities of refugee background to break intergenerational cycles of trauma and social inequity.

Stronger Futures Centre of Research Excellence

Visit the Stronger Futures website


Know Our Story: a toolkit for social equity and inclusion 

The Know Our Story initiative aims to inspire, encourage and support clinical and public health researchers to work towards greater inclusion of culturally diverse populations in research. The toolkit includes five resources available online and an animation. The five resources cover topics such as best practice approaches to consultation, collaboration, and working with community advisors and community researchers to co-design approaches to research.

Know our Story 

Animation directed and animated by Darcy Prendergast, audio by Ben Matthews. Production company Oh Yeah Wow. Characters developed and voiced by members of the Refugee and Migrant Health Research Program.

Read more about the Know Our Story initiative