Get Involved

Benefits of joining IAHA website

The Indigenous Allied Health Australia website has website members pages where Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous allied health professionals and students and their health colleagues can:

be in touch with each other (there's a Website Members Directory)
join in discussions on a range of Indigenous health and allied health topics
post articles for others to access
view articles and informative documents relevant to Indigenous health and allied health

Who can join?

Any one in health with an interest in improving health for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities - through allied health.

If you are an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander allied health professional or student we would appreciate you swelling our ranks and joining in the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander allied health participant-only discussions, planning and networking as well as the other discussion/exchanges.

If you are a non-Indigenous allied health professional or student who wants to contribute to improved allied health services to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients and communities, we would welcome your involvement. You may wish to be better informed yourself, or to see improved teaching of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander health in allied health curricula and in professional development events. You may be willing to join your I Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander colleagues in being a mentor to young Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people interested in becoming allied health professionals or willing to contribute to other strategies to increase the number of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander allied health professionals. If you are keen to be involved in Indigenous-lead discussions and activities, please join.

If you are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander or non-Indigenous health practitioners and students (other than allied health) and would like to join in our discussions which have an allied health focus - you are welcome too. For those of you who are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander health practitioners or students there is an Indigenous-only discussion/exchange page too.

Allied health practitioners, along with Aboriginal Health Workers, doctors, nurses, health promotion practitioners and other health workers, contribute to health services for Indigenous clients and communities.

This Indigenous Allied Health Australia site has a focus on allied health professionals -those tertiary qualified health professionals (and students) who apply their skills and knowledge to restore and maintain optimal physical, sensory, psychological, cognitive, social function - and who are NOT in the medical, nursing, oral health, public health, health worker, clinical support health, complimentary or alternative health professions.

At the time of registration of IAHA, those professions who were accepted as allied health professions included: audiology; dietetics; exercise physiology; occupational therapy; optometry; orthoptics; pharmacy; physiotherapy; podiatry; prosthetics & orthotics; psychology; radiography & sonography; social work. This list of 'acceptable' allied health professions can be amended from time to time by members at a general meeting.