Walking the Health Journey in Kakadu

One Disease is a non-profit organisation with a core mission of eliminating Crusted Scabies as a public health concern in the Northern Territory.

 

Scabies underlies many skin infections in the NT’s remote indigenous communities. These infections can in turn lead to sepsis, Acute Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatic Heart Disease, and chronic kidney disease

 

This Podcast series - ‘Scratching the Surface - the Scabies Story’ is part of One Disease’s commitment to provide Scabies and Crusted Scabies education to health services in both remote communities and urban settings.

 

In this episode our guest is Patricia Miller, Alcohol and Other Drugs co-ordinator with Red Lily Health in Jabiru and Greater Western Arnhemland. Trish’s earliest memories are of community health activities as her mum was a senior Aboriginal Health Worker in the Kakadu region. With this grounding, Trish describes it as inevitable that she too would find herself working in the field of Indigenous Health.

 

Your hosts in Darwin’s ‘Studio G’ are Brad Firebrace from Skinnyfish Music and One Disease’s Geoffrey ‘Jacko’ Angeles.

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