John Jacky
Community Researcher
john.jacky@thekids.org.au
+61 477 320 444
I am a Bardi Bunyiol descendant and well known member of the local Broome and West Kimberley communities. I bring my experience in Aboriginal community engagement and relationship building to The Kids Research Institute Australia, having worked extensively with a diverse group of Aboriginal communities and organisations throughout WA.
I previously worked as a Medicare Liaison Officer working closely with the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in WA and in particular the Kimberley regions, providing assistance on how Aboriginal people access to allied health service providers could be improved.
In 1996 I was also recognised by the Broome Rotarians for my community work and was awarded the Paul Harris Fellow award for my work in running basketball for many years for the Broome and wider communities, further facilitating opportunities for Broome based health organisations to actively promote a range of community health campaigns such as sexual health and the effects of substance abuse.
Projects
Skin health situational analysis to inform skin disease control programs for the Kimberley
The aim of this project is to conduct a situational analysis of the skin health services and activities currently available for managing skin infections within the Kimberley.
Skin Health Situational Analysis to inform skin disease control programs for the Kimberley - outcomes
The Skin Health Situational Analysis was conducted in 2017 with and for stakeholders in the Kimberley region as a precursor to the SToP Trial to highlight all that was already known prior to commencement in 2018. It was completed to be a resource for communities in the Kimberley who would like to de
END RHD Community Project - Kimberley (Rheumatic Fever Strategy)
SITting with communities to SToP skin infections
Consultation to Translation: Evaluation of an environmental health video to promote the role of environmental health activities for healthy skin
Published research
Centralising Local Aboriginal Language and Culture in Healthy Skin Books on the See Treat Prevent (SToP) Trial in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia: A Process and Impact Inquiry
Language is significant for communicating knowledge across cultures and generations and has the power to attribute meanings and alter our worldviews. More than 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders languages were spoken in 1788. This number has diminished to approximately 110 languages spoken in 2016, of which 90% were considered endangered in 2019. Language custodians and speakers across Australia are working to preserve and ensure languages are strongly spoken into the future.
Oombarl Oombarl Joorrinygor-Slowly Slowly Moving Forward: Reflections From a Cross-Cultural Team Working Together on the See, Treat, Prevent (SToP) Trial in the Kimberley Region of WA
Reflexivity is crucial for researchers and health professionals working within Aboriginal health. Reflexivity provides a tool for non-Aboriginal researchers to contribute to the broader intention of reframing historical academic positivist paradigms into Indigenous research methodologies to privilege Aboriginal voices in knowledge construction and decision-making.
Trimodal skin health programme for childhood impetigo control in remote Western Australia (SToP): a cluster randomised, stepped-wedge trial
Skin infections affect physical health and, through stigma, social-emotional health. When untreated, they can cause life-threatening conditions. We aimed to assess the effect of a holistic, co-designed, region-wide skin control programme on the prevalence of impetigo.
Multi-methods process evaluation of the SToP (See, Treat, Prevent) trial: a cluster randomised, stepped wedge trial to support healthy skin
Healthy skin is important for maintaining overall physical and cultural health and wellbeing. However, remote-living Australian Aboriginal children contend with disproportionally high rates of Streptococcus pyogenes (Strep A) infected impetigo.
Prevalence of chronic respiratory diseases in Aboriginal children: A whole population study
The burden of bronchiectasis is disproportionately high in Aboriginal adults, with early mortality. Bronchiectasis precursors, that is, protracted bacterial bronchitis and chronic suppurative lung disease, often commence in early childhood.
Conducting decolonizing research and practice with Australian First Nations to close the health gap
The purpose of this paper is to highlight a perspective for decolonizing research with Australian First Nations and provide a framework for successful and sustained knowledge translation by drawing on the recent work conducted by a research group, in five remote communities in North-Western Australia.