David Lyle

qualifications: PhD

contribution: conduct, primary author, original concept, designed the project, literature review, collected data, wrote the first draft, contributed to drafts

position: Professor

public health, remote health, Indigenous health

Dr Emily Saurman

qualifications: PhD

contribution: data review, secondary author, literature review, contributed to drafts

position: Dr

rural health, health care services, access, ethics, palliative care

Sue Kirby

qualifications: PhD

contribution: contributed to drafts

position: Dr

Senior Research Fellow University Department of Rural Health Broken Hill; role rural health research and research capacity building.

Debra Jones

qualifications: Master of Indigenous Health

contribution: contributed to drafts

position: Ms

John Humphreys

qualifications: PhD

contribution: contributed to drafts, original concept

position: Emeritus Professor

Current research interests include:

• the social and spatial patterns of need for health related services in rural areas,
• rural health workforce recruitment and retention,
• the role and contribution of services to the health and wellbeing of communities,
• the provision of appropriate education, training and support for rural health workers and implementation of innovative service delivery models in order to provide sustainable health care in small rural and remote communities,
• the evaluation of rural health care planning and policies, and
• rural community development.

Prof John Wakerman

qualifications: PhD

contribution: contributed to drafts, original concept

position: Professor

John is a Public Health Medicine specialist and general practitioner, with a background in remote primary health care services as a medical practitioner, senior manager and researcher. He has a special interest in remote health services research.