qualifications: PhD
contribution: devised survey tool, literature review, collected data, input data, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft
position: Research Fellow
Australia
Deb is a Senior Research Fellow at Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University. She has a PhD and Masters in Clinical Epidemiology. Deb has also worked as a rural GP. Deb's main research areas of interest relate to rural and remote health workforce supply (especially retention) and rural and remote primary health care services.
qualifications: PhD
contribution: original concept, designed the project, devised survey tool, literature review, collected data, input data, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft
position: Emeritus Professor
Australia
Current research interests include:
COVID-19 in endangered Indigenous groups from the Amazonia, Ecuador
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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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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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