Mr Humpress Harrington, Head of Atoifi Campus of Pacific Adventist University (PAU) and Atoifi Health Research Group (AHRG) researcher, will co-facilitate a community-based research workshop at the Creating Futures Conference in Suva, Fiji. Humpress is currently undertaking his PhD at James Cook University (JCU) where he is investigating relevant research capacity strengthening models for health research in the Pacific.

Humpress will join Dr Michelle Redman-MacLaren (CQUniversity Centre for Indigenous Health Equity Research and AHRG), Dr Narayan Gopalkrishnan (JCU) and Dr Anaseini Silatolu (Ministry of Health, Fiji) to facilitate an interactive research Workshop. The team will draw on the 'learn-by-doing' model of community-based research used in Solomon Islands.

Participants in the Workshop will explore how research can be mutually beneficial, as outlined in the paper published by AHRG members, "Mutual research capacity strengthening: a qualitative study of two-way partnerships in public health research". You can read this article for free here: https://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-9276-11-79

In addition to Humpress and Michelle's contribution, James Asugeni, Mental Health Nurse, AHRG member and Lecturer, PAU-Atoifi campus, has been invited to be a cultural adviser during the Creating Futures Conference.

For more information about Creating Futures 2017 to be held in September, please visit: http://www.cairnsinstitute.jcu.edu.au/dialogue/conferences/cf17/