Validation and enhancement of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander psychiatric hospitalisation statistics through an Indigenous Mental Health Worker register

Prof Melissa Haswell

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept, designed the project, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft

position: Senior lecturer and Head of unit

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.

Tallita Wheeler

qualifications: BAppHSci(IndigCommHlth)

contribution: original concept, devised survey tool, supplied data, contributed to drafts

position: Advanced Health Worker (Mental Health)

Rachael Wargent

contribution: collected data, input data, statistical analysis

position: Research officer

Andrew Brownlie

qualifications: GradDipMtlHlthNsg

contribution: original concept, supervised data collection, contributed to drafts

position: Nursing director

Fiona Tulip

qualifications: MHlthInf

contribution: statistical analysis, contributed to drafts

position: Senior research officer

Mercy Baird

qualifications: MPrimHlth

contribution: original concept, supervised data collection

position: Senior coordinator

Lisa Gardiner

qualifications: BBus(HlthAdmin), GradCertHlthSci

contribution: supervised data collection, input data, contributed to drafts

position: Manager

Prof Lisa Jackson Pulver

qualifications: PhD

contribution: contributed to drafts, literature review

position: Chair of Indigenous Health and Professor of Public Health