Lowitja Institute is Australia’s only national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled health research institute named in honour of its patron, Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue, AC CBE DSG.

We are an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled organisation working for the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through high-impact quality research, knowledge exchange, and by supporting a new generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health researchers.

Our national office is on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. We also acknowledge the more than 250 nations of sovereign Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who have lived across this broad continent and islands for thousands of years, prior to colonisation and who remain here, and pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.