Kelli J Owen

Globally, health inequities in access to health care, including transplantation, have led to suboptimal outcomes for certain population groups, including First Nations people. Essential to overcoming these inequities is the inclusion of voices of people with lived experience of kidney disease in policy reform, research, health services design and workforce training. You have full access to this article via your institution.

Med J Aust || doi: 10.5694/mja2.52361 Published online: 1 July 2024 Historical and current colonisation practices lead to poor health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.1 Kidney failure is one of many chronic diseases that affect a larger proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people than non‐Indigenous Australians; the kidney failure rate is more than three times as high.2 Kidney transplantation provides better survival outcomes than remaining on dialysis...

For tens of thousands of years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have operated and thrived within sovereign societies.