qualifications: PhD
contribution: Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision
position: Assistant Professor
United States
Bronwyn Fields is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at California State University Sacramento in Sacramento, California, USA. Dr. Fields' research interests include the health workforce, nurse recruitment and retention in rural areas, health disparities and international health and development. As a nurse and midwife, she has worked extensively in Australia, South East Asia and the Pacific, including consulting for the World Health Organization, Asian Development Bank, AusAID and other international organizations on health workforce development. More recently, Bronwyn has lived and worked in rural Northern California. She joined the Rural and Remote Health North America section as a Regional Editor in 2016.
qualifications: DNPc, MSc, ANP, RN, FHEA
contribution: Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision
position: Chief Nursing Officer/Advanced Practice Educator
Bongi is an Advanced Practice Nurse leader with expertise in Emergency/Primary Care and international healthcare workforce education. An innovative practice-focused scholar recognised internationally for work in advanced practice and Interprofessional Education/Collaborative Practice (IPECP). Additionally, her experience includes regulation, policy and higher education practice. Bongi’s Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) work focuses on Educational Leadership in Advanced Practice and Health Policy.
qualifications: MFamMed, FCFP(SA)
contribution: Drafting of manuscript, Critical revision
position: Professor and Director
South Africa
Professor Ian Couper is Director of the Ukwanda Centre for Rural Health and Professor of Rural Health at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. A trained family physician, he spent nine years practising in a remote rural hospital in northern KwaZuluNatal province, and then 16 years working in primary care and health service development in rural North West province. He held the first chair of rural health at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). He has chaired both the Rural Doctors Association of Southern Africa (RuDASA) and the Wonca Working Party on Rural Practice (WONCA Rural).
Women's wellbeing and Niska (goose) Harvesting in subarctic Ontario, Canada
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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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