Showcasing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges – insights, impacts and learnings from Lowitja Institute Major Grant Recipients
Lowitja Institute is proud to host the Knowledge Translation (KT) Summit 2026, an online gathering that brings together policymakers, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, communities, and researchers to share knowledge, showcase innovation, and influence systems change.
For generations, our communities have demonstrated that self-determined, strengths-based, and community-led models deliver the most effective and sustainable outcomes. When Indigenous peoples have authority over systems that shape access to resources and decision-making through self-determined governance structures, we are better positioned to design and deliver policies and programs that reflect our cultural values, community priorities, and definitions of wellbeing. In effect, nation building and self-determination are health interventions: they shift power, restore sovereignty, and create the political and structural conditions needed for Indigenous peoples to thrive.
This KT summit will hold space for some of these stories to be shared, led by Lowitja Institute Major Grant Recipients. The impact of these projects demonstrates how direct funding, and the genuine sharing of resources and power with the community-controlled sector, translates into meaningful and lasting change for communities and how self-determination is a driver for good health.
Lowitja Institute invites stakeholders across the Australian Government to come together to listen deeply to these stories, recognising that policymaking must be grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing, with self-determination as a core principle for achieving holistic health and wellbeing outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
This summit offers an opportunity to reflect, learn, and strengthen collective efforts toward holistic health and wellbeing outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
