qualifications: Master of Remote Health Practice
contribution: original concept, designed the project, devised survey tool, collected data, wrote the first draft, literature review
position: Health centre manager
Australia
Remote area nurse interested in the RAN nurse practitioner modle & womens health
qualifications: Master of Remote Health Practice
contribution: original concept, designed the project, devised survey tool, collected data, contributed to drafts
position: Health centre manager
qualifications: Graduate Certificate in Health (Remote Health Practice)
contribution: original concept, designed the project, literature review, input data, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft
position: Remote area nurse
Australia
I am a Remote Area Nurse, working in a remote community to provide primary and emergency health care to the mainly indigenous population.
qualifications: Graduate Diploma in Health (Remote Health Practice)
position: Remote area nurse
qualifications: PhD
contribution: designed the project, supervised data collection, contributed to drafts
position: Professor, Health Service Development
Lesley Barclay (AO PhD) is the foundation Professor of Health Services Development at Charles Darwin University and co directs a new Graduate School of Health Practice. As the Chief Investigator she guided medical and midwifery colleagues in one of the first National Health and Medical Research Council Centres of Clinical Excellence in Research focusing on improvements to maternity services. She is currently leading research into maternity services in China funded by ARC in partnership Chinese colleagues, and on Indigenous birth and systems to support this in Australia. Lesley has led over 30 research projects and been successful with 8 NHMRC and ARC grants in the last decade, supervising more than 30 major research theses to successful completion. Five of her graduates are now in professorial positions. In recent years she has published 3 books, 25 refereed journal articles and 15 major reports for government. Lesley has worked in International development for nearly 20 years, as a technical adviser to governments, AusAID, World Bank and WHO, in provision of primary health car, maternal infant/child health and capacity building in health worker education systems. This work has occurred in Asia, Melanesia and the Pacific Islands. Lesley has also served on a variety of national committees such as the NHMRC Council for two terms and was an inaugural ministerial appointee to the Australian Council for Safety and Quality. She was awarded an AO in 2004 in recognition of her contribution to professional and international developments and child health.
qualifications: PhD
contribution: supervised data collection, statistical analysis, contributed to drafts
position: Research fellow
Australia
qualifications: Graduate Diploma Midwifery
contribution: original concept, designed the project, devised survey tool
position: Registered nurse/midwife
qualifications: Graduate Certificate in Health (Remote Health Practice)
contribution: original concept, designed the project, devised survey tool, literature review
position: Health delegate
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15th National Rural & Remote Allied Health Conference (SARRAH), 21–23 October 2024, Mildura, Australia
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RMA24, 23–26 October 2024, Darwin, NT, Australia
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International Conference on Rural Nursing and Rural Health (ICRNRH), 28–29 October 2024, Lisbon, Portugal
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15th National Rural & Remote Allied Health Conference: Going the distance, 21–23 October 2024, Mildura, Vic., Australia
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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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