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Learning about Aboriginal health and wellbeing at the postgraduate level: novel application of the Growth and Empowerment Measure
qualifications: MPH
contribution: Conceptually posed the research question and initiated the process, analysed the data and drafted majority of content, member of teaching team who undertook the research
position: Research Fellow
Sally Fitzpatrick is a Research Fellow at the Translational Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University, and a team investigator in the Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing Stream of Maridulu Budyari Gumal - The Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise. Sally grew up in Sydney, where she currently lives on Bediagal Land. She is fifth generation Australian with ancestry including Danish, English and Irish and the proud co-parent of two amazing young women. Sally has over a decade experience designing, delivering and researching curriculum in Aboriginal health, as well as empowerment, community based healing, social and emotional wellbeing, community development and oral health. She has served in community organisations for many years promoting social justice and reconciliation as well as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander oral health and services for young women and girls at risk of homelessness.
qualifications: PhD
contribution: Contributed actively to refinement of analysis, structure, and editing, member of teaching team who undertook the research
position: Professor
Australia
Keen interest in finding ways to promote empowerment and social and emotional well being as a mechanism toward achieving better physical and mental health and greater connection and caring for the environment.
qualifications: PhD
contribution: Contribution to structure, writing, interpretation of findings and development of argument; member of teaching team who undertook the research
position: Senior Lecturer
Megan is a Wiradjuri descendent with over 20 years’ experience in justice health. She has NHMRC, ARC and industry funding for prisoner health research, including for workforce development and program evaluation using her Ngaa-bi-nya Aboriginal framework. Megan is a commissioning editor of Croakey.org, helping produce social journalism series #JustJustice.
qualifications: PhD
contribution: Commenting on analysis and interpretation and editing
position: Senior Lecturer
qualifications: PhD
contribution: Provided advice on pedagogy and contributed to structure and editing of content, member of teaching team who undertook the research
position: Senior Research Fellow
qualifications: PhD
contribution: Involved in developing the objectives that this research addresses and in preparation of the paper for publication
position: Honorary Associate Professor
qualifications: PhD
contribution: Provided cultural supervision and advice on structure and editing of content, member of teaching team who undertook the research
position: Professor
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