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The Anthropologist as ghost Open

Emma Kowal · 2025

Haunting Biology : Book Forum Open

Trevor Engel, Beth Greenhough, Frédéric Keck, Richard Williams, Meredith Evans , et al. · 2025

Emma Kowal’s Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity (2023) investigates the history of biological and medical research about Indigenous peoples in Australia. This book forum invited contributors to provide nuanced insights that engage t…

“Equity” in genomic health policies: a review of policies in the international arena Open

Prabhathi Basnayake Ralalage, Tala Mitchell, Claire Zammit, Gareth Baynam, Emma Kowal , et al. · 2024

Introduction The field of genomics is rapidly evolving and has made significant impact on the diagnosis and understanding of rare and genetic diseases, in guiding precision medicine in cancer treatment, and in providing personalized risk a…

Aboriginal families living with MJD in remote Australia: questions of access and equity Open

Libby Massey, John Gilroy, Emma Kowal, Denise L. Doolan, Alan Clough · 2024

Precision medicine in Australia: indigenous health professionals are needed to improve equity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Open

Dawn Lewis, Tala Mitchell, Emma Kowal · 2024

Epigenetic science and Indigenous health: key issues and considerations for future research Open

Jaya Keaney, Henrietta Byrne, Megan Warin, Emma Kowal, Maurizio Meloni , et al. · 2024

Environmental epigenetics is a fast-growing field of scientific research attracting interest from key stakeholders in Indigenous health internationally, including researchers, clinicians, policymakers, and advocacy organisations. It is the…

Community partnerships are fundamental to ethical ancient DNA research Open

Emma Kowal, Laura S. Weyrich, Juan Manuel Argüelles, Alyssa C. Bader, Chip Colwell , et al. · 2023

Spencer’s Ghost: The Decolonial Afterlife of a Postcolonial Museum Prop Open

Emma Kowal · 2022

The Decolonial Afterlife of a Postcolonial Museum Prop 1 This is an unorthodox story of collection in more than one sense.First, it is the story of how a collector -Baldwin Spencer -was ironically collected when the museum he previously le…

Investigating disparity in access to Australian clinical genetic health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Open

Joanne Luke, Philippa Dalach, Lindsay Tuer, Ravi Savarirayan, Angeline Ferdinand , et al. · 2022

Globally, there is a recognised need that all populations should be able to access the benefits of genomics and precision medicine. However, achieving this remains constrained by a paucity of data that quantifies access to clinical genomic…

Structuring Race into the Machine: The Spoiled Promise of Postgenomic Sequencing Technologies Open

Emma Kowal · 2022

Genetics has been a fruitful area of study for anthropologists of technology since the late twentieth century. In all its wide range of applications—from reproduction to forensics —genetic technologies raise questions of identity, power, a…

Investigating equity in access to Australian clinical genetic health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Open

Joanne Luke, Philippa Dalach, Lindsay Tuer, Ravi Savarirayan, Angeline Ferdinand , et al. · 2021

Globally, there is a recognised need for a greater commitment to an equity agenda in clinical genomics and precision medicine. Fundamental to this, is the equitable access by all to services providing genomic health care. However, achievin…

“This is my boy’s health! Talk straight to me!” perspectives on accessible and culturally safe care among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients of clinical genetics services Open

Philippa Dalach, Ravi Savarirayan, Gareth Baynam, Julie McGaughran, Emma Kowal , et al. · 2021

A community-based co-designed genetic health service model for Aboriginal Australians Open

Imogen Elsum, Libby Massey, Callum McEwan, Desireé LaGrappe, Emma Kowal , et al. · 2020

© 2020 Elsum et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and sour…

“This is My Boy’s Health! Talk Straight to Me!” Perspectives on Accessible and Culturally Safe Care Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Patients of Clinical Genetics Services Open

Philippa Dalach, Ravi Savarirayan, Gareth Baynam, Julie McGaughran, Emma Kowal , et al. · 2020

Background Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people do not enjoy equal access to specialist health services that adequately meet their needs. Clinical genetics services are at the vanguard of realising the health benefits of genomic me…

Inclusion of Indigenous Australians in biobanks: a step to reducing inequity in health care Open

Imogen Elsum, Callum McEwan, Emma Kowal, Yvonne Cadet‐James, Margaret Kelaher , et al. · 2019

Without improved practices and policy to guide the engagement and inclusion of Indigenous Australians in biobanks, the full health benefits provided by the genomic era will not beshared equitably

How collections end: objects, meaning and loss in laboratories and museums Open

Boris Jardine, Emma Kowal, Jenny Bangham · 2019

Collections are made and maintained for pleasure, for status, for nation or empire building, for cultural capital, as a substrate for knowledge production and for everything in between. In asking how collections end, we shift the focus fro…

Spencer's double: the decolonial afterlife of a postcolonial museum prop Open

Emma Kowal · 2019

In the mid-1990s, staff at Museum Victoria planned the new Melbourne Museum. The Indigenous gallery was a major focus at a time when many museums around the world forged new ways of displaying Indigenous heritage. Named Bunjilaka (a Woiwur…

To be or not to be Indigenous? Understanding the rise of Australia’s Indigenous population since 1971 Open

Elizabeth Watt, Emma Kowal · 2018

In the past half century, the Indigenous Australian population has grown at a far faster rate than can be explained by births alone, and has come to include more western-educated people living in the south-east of the country. Demographers…

A DNA test says you’ve got Indigenous Australian ancestry. Now what? Open

Elizabeth Watt, Shaun Lehmann, Emma Kowal · 2018

The future of precision medicine in Australia Open

R. Anthony Williamson, Warwick Anderson, Stephen Duckett, Ian Frazer, Carrie Hillyard , et al. · 2018

The Future of Precision Medicine in Australia explores the current trends in precision medicine technologies and the role that broader implementation of precision medicine capabilities may play in the Australian context.Recent technologica…

Data-sharing for indigenous peoples Open

Emma Kowal, Bastien Llamas, Sarah A. Tishkoff · 2017

Correction Open

Emma Kowal · 2017

Aboriginal mitogenomes reveal 50,000 years of regionalism in Australia Open

Raymond Tobler, Adam B. Rohrlach, Julien Soubrier, Pere Rosselló Bover, Bastien Llamas , et al. · 2017

CHARACTERISTICS AND CARE OF OLDER PEOPLE WITH COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT ATTENDING EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS Open

Linda Schnitker, Elizabeth Beattie, Len Gray, Ellen Burkett, M Martin- Khan , et al. · 2016

This paper describes the profile of older people with cognitive impairment (CI) presenting to Emergency Departments (ED).An observational study of a sample of 579 older (≥ 70 y) ED patients was carried out.Participants were assessed for CI…

GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN LEVEL AND COGNITIVE DECLINE AMONG COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDER JAPANESE Open

Linda Schnitker, Elizabeth Beattie, Len Gray, Ellen Burkett, M Martin- Khan , et al. · 2016

This paper describes the profile of older people with cognitive impairment (CI) presenting to Emergency Departments (ED).An observational study of a sample of 579 older (≥ 70 y) ED patients was carried out.Participants were assessed for CI…

Digital futures in Indigenous communities: from health kiosks to community hubs Open

Kristen Smith, Richard Chenhall, Scott McQuire, Emma Kowal · 2016

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are under-serviced by digital technologies, with indigenous Australians being 69% less likely than non-indigenous people to have any Internet connection and are about half as likely to have…

Trapped in the gap Open

Emma Kowal · 2016

Des êtres vivants et des artefacts Open

Ludovic Coupaye, Roy Ellen, Carole Ferret, Eduardo Kac, Frédéric Keck , et al. · 2016

Colloque international organisé les 9 et 10 avril 2014 au musée du quai Branly par Perig Pitrou, Ludovic Coupaye et Laura Rival, en partenariat avec le Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale, la Pépinière interdisciplinaire CNRS-PSL « Domesti…

Welcome to Country: Acknowledgement, Belonging and White Anti-racism Open

Emma Kowal · 2015

The Welcome to Country (WTC) ceremony and its twin, the Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners, have become prominent anti-racist rituals in the post-settler society of Australia. These rituals are rich in meaning. They are simultaneously e…

All in the Blood Open

Emma Kowal, Ashley Greenwood, Rebekah McWhirter · 2015

Public participation in medical research and biobanking is considered key to advances in scientific discovery and translation to improved health care. Cultural concerns relating to blood have been found to affect the participation of indig…

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