qualifications: Graduate Diploma Dental Therapy
contribution: original concept, wrote the first draft, collected data
position: Oral Health Therapist
Australia
Yvonne trained as an Oral Health Therapist and has 3 years' experience providing dental services for Aboriginal children in rural and remote. Her research involves collaborating with Aboriginal communities to develop and implement oral health promotion to help improve the oral health of Aboriginal children in New South Wales, Australia.
qualifications: PhD
contribution: contributed to drafts
position: Sub-Dean (Education)
qualifications: PhD
contribution: original concept, contributed to drafts
position: Chair, Population Oral Health
Australia
Health services research as applied to disadvantaged population groups with a focus on oral health
qualifications: PhD
contribution: statistical analysis, contributed to drafts
position: Senior Policy Analyst
qualifications: Certificate IV in Dental Assisting
contribution: collected data, contributed to drafts
position: Clinic Coordinator
qualifications: PhD
contribution: contributed to drafts
position: Adjunct Associate Professor
Kylie Gwynne has thirty years’ experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of human services for vulnerable Australians. She has held senior leadership roles in service delivery, program development, system reform, research and public policy. Kylie's focus is on the co-design of health care and human services to improve effectiveness, efficiency and outcomes. Her goal is to improve outcomes of Australians through co-design and delivery of culturally safe, timely and relevant services. Since 2012 she has secured $11.5m in funding to co-design, deliver and evaluate services with Aboriginal people including new approaches to oral health, allied health and cardiovascular disease. In 2018 she secured $23.5m for paediatric precision medicine. Kylie holds a Master of Human Services from Griffith University and a PhD in Health Sciences from the University of Sydney. She is currently an independent consultant, an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and a Senior Lecturer in Health Leadership at Macquarie University.
qualifications: PhD
contribution: original concept, statistical analysis, contributed to drafts
position: Research Fellow
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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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