Best Practice

The overall theme for the 4th Biennial International Network of Indigenous Health Knowledge and Development (INIHKD)Conference was ‘Knowing Our Roots: Indigenous Medicines, Health Knowledges and Best Practices’. Conference activities were grouped around the following broad themes:\ud \ud •Building of Indigenous research capacity, partnerships and workforce;\ud •Sharing of innovative, traditional and contemporary Indigenous knowledges, especially with respect to culturally-grounded interventions and evidenced-based “best and promising practices”; \ud •Identification of successful Indigenous health policy solutions; and \ud •Sharing of ethical, Indigenous-based research protocols and methodologies.\ud \ud This keynote plenary presentation focused on 'best practice' in research asking the questions: \ud \ud What kind of research will I do? \ud What kind of research will I be?\ud What is the contribution that I will make?\ud what will be my legacy?\ud \ud \u