Community and individual resilience for positive health in Indigenous populations at risk for diabetes and cardiovascula

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The research partnership targets environmental, community, organisational and individual influences on diabetes and related conditions including obesity, cardiovascular disease and the metabolic syndrome in Indigenous populations of Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The Program brings together for strategic action across multiple organisational sectors and multidisciplinary group of Canadian and Australasian researchers, and indigenous community partners with extensive experience and expertise in Indigenous health and chronic disease aetiology and prevention. The partnership is founded on a recent CIHR global health research program development grant directed by the lead investigators; these activities build on seven years of collaboration between the lead applicants and the co-applicants in each nation. Baseline biochemical, behavioural and anthropometric data have been collected for many communities with which we will continue to work, and such measure will also be collected for additional communities recruited to join the program. A minimum of 22 communities will be included in this program, at least five per country. The �added value� of the partnership will be through going beyond risk factor-based research and individualised interventions in attempting to link meaningful measures environmental, community, organisational characteristics and actions in health promotion intervention, to measures of positive health and improved health status for community partners over a five-year duration of the partnership. The concept of resilience will be addressed in terms of positive community and individual capacities related to favourable health status and-or effective mobilisation for health interventions, accounting for indicators of adversity. Culture will be synthesising theme for research on resiliency