qualifications: RSW
contribution: original concept, literature review, collected data, wrote the first draft
position: Long Term Care Consultant
Canada
qualifications: PhD
contribution: designed the project, supervised data collection, contributed to drafts
position: Professor
Canada
Mary Lou is professor at Lakehead University in the School of Social Work, with specialization in gerontology and palliative care. Her research focuses on health services delivery and community capacity development, including education of providers in rural and remote communties.
qualifications: PhD
contribution: contributed to drafts
position: Associate Professor
Trained as a health geographer, my research broadly addresses health services issues in rural and remote Canada. Service issues include community care (home care) and palliative and end-of-life services.
Experiences of rural Australian men with online SMART Recovery mutual-help groups
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Attraction and retention of nurses in rural, remote and isolated locations
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Obstetric outcomes across US urban and rural hospitals
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11th Biennial Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress (PRIDoC) 2024, 2–6 December 2024, Kaurna Country, Adelaide, Australia
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Te Tāreitanga: Evolving understanding of health workforce research, 9 December 2024, Dunedin, NZ, and online
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4th International Indigenous Health & Wellbeing Conference 2025, 16–19 June 2025, Adelaide Convention Centre, Kaurna Country, Australia
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