Ben+O'Mara

=Ben O'Mara= **Home page**: http://www.vu.edu.au/about-vu/our-people/ben-omara
 * Your Country:** Australia
 * Affiliation:** Institute for Community, Ethnicity and Policy Alternatives (ICEPA), Victoria University
 * Contact:** ben.omara AT vu.edu.au
 * Twitter:** benomara

I am a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Victoria University researching the use and application of information communication technology (ICT) in the promotion of culturally sensitive messages of health and community wellbeing. As part of my research, I work regularly with groups such as Pacific Island, Vietnamese and Sudanese communities in Melbourne’s west.

I am particularly interested in qualitative research which provides policy and practice options for effective strategies for using ICT to support health and wellbeing communication with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities.

I try to find ways to combine my academic research with arts related activities such as multimedia production and narrative non-fiction writing. My recent work with the Vietnamese community involved working with elderly women to help create awareness of the relationship between food and diabetes using digital video and community based health promotion techniques.

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