Burda-burda Balayi Health Professionals and Indigenous Health: Working at the Interface presents a strengths-based focus to help students and practitioners build their understanding of self and others in professional practice to ensure better health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The text includes Indigenous and non-Indigenous contexts of history, society and culture, and topics include cultural safety, truth telling, colonialism and shared futures.

This book critically examines dominant Western health frameworks that essentialises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and health. By providing historical and social context and covering issues affecting public health policy and primary health practice, it aims to diminish conscious bias and racism.

With a strong emphasis on research-based Indigenous voices and perspectives, this book provides a culturally safe framework for you to understand the importance of treating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples effectively and the knowledge needed to do so.

Wendy Edmondson, PhDc, was formerly an Associate Professor in Indigenous health, and CEO of three Aboriginal community-controlled health services across Australia. She is from the Wattandee and Badimia Aboriginal language groups from the mid-west of Western Australia. With education and management qualifications, she has devoted her entire career of 43 years to the service of Indigenous communities, holding a variety of roles including educator, researcher, manager and board member.

Dr Robyn Williams is a non-Indigenous woman and an Honorary Research Fellow at Charles Darwin University and Menzies School of Health Research. She has nursing and education qualifications and has over 40 years’ experience working with Indigenous peoples.