qualifications: Master Social Policy
position: Indigenous Researcher Officer
I am an Aboriginal worker/researcher interested in delivery of culturally appropriate/holistic servcies as well as the development and implementation of health, policy and practice in Aboriginal services and communities. I have particular interest and vast experience in Aboriginal Mental Health practice within a community controlled service framework.
qualifications: PhD
position: Professor of Rural Health/ Head of Rural Health Research Unit
Professor Craig Veitch was the inaugural Chair of Rural Health at James Cook University, Queensland from 2000 to 2007. In December 2007, he became the inaugural Professor of Community Based Health Care at The University of Sydney and the Director of the Centre for Community Based Health Care at Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney. His research interests include health care behaviour and decision making, health services research, road crashes, cancer, health workforce in rural areas, community based rehabilitation, and outreach rehabilitation services.
qualifications: Master Health Science (Health Promotion)
position: Primary Health Care Research Evaluation Development (PHCRED) Coordinator
Australia
Robyn Preston is a Senior Lecturer, Public Health, CQUniversity. Her research interests include socially accountable health professional education; community participation in health care settings and under-served populations experiences of health care.
Creating positive early rural placements in medical education
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Discharge against medical advice in rural and remote emergency departments
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Retention of early-career GPs as independent specialists in former training practices
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Rural GP Association of Scotland (RGPAS) Annual Conference #RGPAS24, 15–17 November 2024, Inverness, Scotland
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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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4th International Indigenous Health & Wellbeing Conference 2025, 16–19 June 2025, Adelaide Convention Centre, Kaurna Country, Australia
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