The health and wellbeing of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples around the globe: Ensuring and promoting best practice in research

Indigenous and Tribal peoples account for approximately 6.2% of the world’s population, comprising over 476 million people across 90 countries [1]. They have unique cultures, languages, knowledge systems, and traditions, maintain a special relationship with the land, and are guided by their own collectivist worldviews [1]. Indigenous and Tribal peoples across the world continue to be adversely affected by the ongoing impacts of colonization and dispossession, past and present racism and discrimination, socioeconomic disadvantage, and reduced access to services, all of which are manifested in disparities across a range of outcomes [2,3,4]. Research can be a tremendous force for good, provided it reflects the needs and priorities of Indigenous and Tribal peoples, is conducted in ways that empower Indigenous and Tribal people and communities, and privileges Indigenous and Tribal ways of knowing, being, and doing. All too often, this has not been the case [5,6].