Welcome to Yaitya Purruna Indigenous Health Unit

We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Kaurna people, the traditional custodians whose ancestral lands we gather on. We acknowledge the deep feelings of attachment and relationship of the Kaurna people to country and we respect and value their past, present and ongoing connection to the land and cultural beliefs.

The words 'Yaitya Purruna' are from the Kaurna language of the Adelaide Plains People meaning 'Our Own Health and Wellbeing'. The Yaitya Purruna Indigenous Health Unit is part of the School of Population Health and Clinical Practice within the Faculty of Health Science and was established in 2000. The Unit works in collaboration with Wilto Yerlo: Centre for Aboriginal Education which has overall responsibility for supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students at the University of Adelaide.

Yaitya Purruna Indigenous Health Unit is now located over two sites.

• Medical School South Rooms SG19, and SG20 where student facilities and student support and administrative staff are located

and

• Level 7 Terrace Towers, 178 North Tce rooms 7.09 and 7.10 where academic staff involved in teaching and research in the School of Population Health and Clinical Practice are located.

Yaitya Purruna Indigenous Health Unit provides

1. Indigenous Student support services in the Faculty of Health Sciences in collaboration with Wilto Yerlo: Centre for Aboriginal Education
2. Teaching within the School of Population Health and Clinical Practice
3. Research within the School of Population Health and Clinical Practice
4. Community engagement as part of the Faculty of Health Science

If you are an Indigenous prospective student or parent of a student interested in becoming a Doctor, Dentist, Nurse, Oral Health specialist, Psychologist or Health Scientist please contact staff at Yaitya Purruna.

Contact: Ms Shana Karpany Administrative officer 08 83034629;Lisa Hanson 08 8303 6275; Dr Dylan Coleman 08 8313 6878 or Associate professor Jenny Baker 08 83136877