Our work

AMRRIC works in partnership with a range of government and non-government stakeholders to facilitate sustainable, culturally-sensitive, professional animal health programs in many rural and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities around Australia.

By improving the health and welfare of companion animals in a community, AMRRIC’s animal health programs contribute to an improvement in human health

We do this by:

• assisting with the control of dog populations through veterinarian-led desexing programs (addressing problems of noise, scavenging and attacks on humans)
• empowering Aboriginal communities by providing the knowledge, training and resources that enable them to take responsibility for their animals’ health and welfare
• delivering education programs to Indigenous school students, community members, environmental health practitioners, animal management workers and government and non-government organisations about all aspects of animal health and welfare in remote Indigenous communities
• educating Indigenous communities specifically about parasites and diseases in companion animals, leading to a reduction in the transmission of disease from animals to people (zoonoses)
• working with government at all levels to develop animal health and welfare policy relevant to remote Indigenous communities
• contributing to university research programs across Australia and internationally, with the Cancer Genome Project in Cambridge, UK, and its work on Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumour, a common disease in dogs in remote Australian communities.