About us

One21seventy is a not-for-profit entity administered through the Menzies School of Health Research, one of Australia’s leading research institutes in Aboriginal health.

An advisory board with a majority of Indigenous members helps to guide the work of the centre.

Our mission

To foster high-quality primary health care and better health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people throughout Australia through support for CQI in everyday primary health care practice.

Our goals

to strengthen the CQI capability of the Indigenous primary health care workforce;
to ensure sustainability in CQI structures and processes within Indigenous primary health care; and
to produce and deliver evidence-based products and services that are timely, relevant, responsive and respected for their integrity and quality; and
to be a national leader in Indigenous primary health care CQI knowledge production and translation.

What we do

Provide tools, training and support for primary health care centres and providers to use:

One21seventy CQI cycle
CQI audit and systems assessment tools
On-line data services for easy interpretation and reporting

Our origins

One21seventy grew out of the successful Audit and Best Practice in Chronic Disease (ABCD) research project , that supported more than 120 Indigenous primary health care centres to use CQI tools and methods, and showed CQI could make a difference in Indigenous health care.
For more information about the origins of One21seventy and the ABCD project, click here.

Our Advisory Board

Director – Menzies School of Health Research
Ross Spark (Chairperson)

Senior Principal Research Fellow – Menzies School of Health Research
Ross Bailie

Health Promotion Quality Improvement Facilitator – Menzies School of Health Research
Lynette O’Donoghue

Public Health Physician – Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation
Hugh Burke

CEO – Aboriginal & Islander Community Health Service (AICHS)
Richard Weston

Deputy CEO – Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health
Wendy Ah Chin

Executive Director - Public Health Division department of Health, WA
Tarun Weeramanthri

Team Leader (Primary Health Care Governance) - Office of Rural and Remote Health
Linda Bailey

Faculty of Health Sciences - University of Queensland
Cindy Shannon

Australian Indigenous Doctor’s Association
Mark Wenitong

Our staff
Main office:
101 Riverside Drive
West End, QLD 4101
PH: 07 3010 3900
Fax: 07 3844 0855
Email: one21seventy@menzies.edu.au
Web: www.one21seventy.org.au

Executive Director
Christopher Cliffe
Christopher.cliffe@menzies.edu.au
Christopher Cliffe is an experienced clinician in the field of Indigenous Primary Health Care, having worked as a Remote Area nurse in a variety of remote and rural communities in South Australia and the Northern Territory. He also has extensive international experience, having worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross in war and disaster zones in many locations, with missions to the South of Sudan, Abkhazia (Georgia), Afghanistan, PNG, Sri Lanka and the Bali Bombing and Boxing Day Tsunami. Christopher has provided leadership to a variety of health care organisations during his career, specifically as Nursing Director for Remote Health in the Top End of the NT for 3 years (and a relief period for Central Australian Remote health), as a Director of Nursing and/or Executive Officer for a residential care facility in rural SA, the Leigh Creek Hospital in SA, and Lorne and Colac Hospitals in Victoria. Christopher is the President of CRANAplus, the multidisciplinary professional body for remote health throughout Australia, and sits on a variety of national advisory committees. In addition to undergraduate nursing qualifications, he holds a Masters Degree in Public Health and is a Justice of the Peace.

Client Services Manager
Jenny Hains
Jennifer.hains@menzies.edu.au

Jenny has been involved in Public Health programs in Northern Territory since 1992. Initially working as Public Health Nurse Coordinator she managed strategies to contain communicable disease outbreaks. In 1997 she undertook the role of Director of Nursing – Infection Control for Alice Springs Hospital, developing a new edition Infection Control Policy manual for hospital staff and was awarded a hospital employee recognition prize for “contributions above expectations”. Jenny was subsequently appointed as the Continuous Quality Improvement Manager at the hospital implementing a quality improvement program and achieving hospital accreditation by the Australian Council on Health Care Standards. She served 2 years as the State Representative on the national council for the Australasian Association for Quality in Health Care.

Jenny’s years working with Indigenous Australians with preventable chronic diseases, has made her a passionate advocate. She coordinated the delivery of a systems based chronic disease program for 25 primary healthcare clinics in the central Australian region. In 2009 Jenny was engaged as the Project Manager for the Menzies ABCD research project to oversee the operational management of a national participatory action research project for primary health care centres in 5 Australian states/Territories. In addition to being a Registered Nurse Jenny's qualifications include Master of Health Services Management; Curtin University; WA (2008) Postgraduate Diploma in Health Administration; Curtin University; WA (2006),Public Sector Management; Post Graduate Certificate; Flinders University SA (2001).

Quality Improvement Information Systems Manager
Kat Lonergan
Katrina.lonergan@menzies.edu.au

Administration Support
Priscilla McKinnon
Priscilla.mckinnon@menzies.edu.au