About the event

The Heart Health Yarning Tool is a shared decision-making tool designed to support conversations between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their health professionals about cardiovascular risk.

This tool provides a shared decision-making approach for health professionals to discuss cardiovascular risk and explore risk reduction options in a holistic and culturally appropriate manner.

The Heart Yarning Tool, designed for use by clinical staff and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people during clinical consultations, is suitable for both community-controlled Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clinics and mainstream general practice.

The launch of the Heart Health Yarning Tool occurs during National Heart Week. The event is hosted by the Enhancing Chronic Disease Care (ECDC) team of the National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research at the Australian National University, in partnership with the Health Literacy Lab at the University of Sydney. The Heart Health Yarning tool was developed with funding from the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care.

Speakers

David Follent - Mr Follent is a Global Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity (AFSE), proud Bunjalung man and leading expert in shared decision making. He is also a senior project officer within the NSW Agency of Clinical Innovation, New South Wales (NSW) Government.

A/Prof Carissa Bonner - A/Prof Carissa Bonner is the Deputy Director of the Sydney Health Literacy Lab and a behavioural scientist working in public health at the University of Sydney, who researches risk communication, shared decision making and health literacy, with a strong focus on prevention.

Dr Shannon McKinn - Dr Shannon McKinn is a research fellow in the School of Public Health, University of Sydney. Her work focuses on conducting social science research to support the development and implementation of community and point of care interventions.

Fiona Cornforth - Ms Cornforth is the Head of the National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research at the Australian National University. 

Event agenda

1.30pm: Refreshments will be provided to in-person attendees 
2pm: Keynote speaker presentation

This is a hybrid event. Attendees will receive details of the zoom invite prior to the event.