Unemployment and underemployment in the 13 years from 2004 to 2016 directly resulted in more than 3,000 Australians dying by suicide – an average of 230 a year.
Over the 17-year study period, 185 coastal deaths occurred on public holidays and 167 on long weekends. One in six coastal drowning deaths occur in winter.
Dr Anukriti Mathur hopes that her work can further narrow the gap in knowledge of the immune system and lead her to establish her innate immunology-focused laboratory that would foster Australia and India collaborations.
For a lot of First Nations peoples, health and wellbeing is not just about the individual. It’s interconnected with family, culture, belonging and Country.