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Keeping It Real: Virtual Connection With Stop Trial Community Navigators, Tracy Mcrae, John Jacky, Janine Mcnamara, Slade Sibosado, Janella Isaac, Joshua Augustine, Rosanna Smith, Jessica Bunning Dr, Asha C. Bowen Dr

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Building trust and forging relationships with remote Aboriginal communities is an essential element of culturally informed, reciprocal research. Historically these relationships have been formed over-time where community members and researchers come together face to face to share their knowledge and yarn in both an informal and formal manner. Researchers from Telethon Kids Institute are partnering with local stakeholders and remote Aboriginal communities in the Kimberley, Western Australia (WA) to support healthy skin through the SToP (See, Treat, Prevent skin sores and scabies) Trial. The SToP trial, a collaboration between Telethon Kids Institute, Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services (KAMS), Nirrumbuk Environmental Health …