Strong Communities, Strong Health

The Strong Communities, Strong Health project is a 3-year project being managed by the Healthy Ageing Research Team (HART) at James Cook University, Cairns.

The project is a multi-methods project combining, lifestyle behaviour trends and desk-based asset mapping with qualitative data through yarning to comprehensively explore and report community specific strengths that can be harnessed for health promotion within the Torres Strait. The project culminates with co-design workshops between researchers, community members and relevant stakeholders, utilising this information to design strength-based health promotions strategies tailored for communities by communities.