qualifications: MPH
contribution: original concept, designed the project, devised survey tool, literature review, statistical analysis, contributed to drafts, overall project supervision
position: senior lecturer
Australia
Dr Passey is a medically trained epidemiologist whose research focuses on multi-disciplinary primary health care interventions and systems to address chronic disease. She has extensive experience in population and health services research, clinical medicine, and population health policy and practice, which she brings to her current academic position. After eight years working in international health research in the USA, Iraq and Papua New Guinea (PNG), Dr Passey returned to Australia to work in chronic disease prevention and applied research, with the North Coast Area Health Service (NCAHS), where she worked for seven years before taking up her current position as Senior Lecturer in Primary Health Care Research with the University of Sydney in September 2006. Her current research focuses on prevention and management of chronic diseases in the primary care setting, and on Aboriginal health. She also directs the NRUDRH Primary Health Care Research and Evaluation Development (PHCRED) program which is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.
qualifications: MSc
contribution: original concept, designed the project, devised survey tool, literature review, collected data, supervised data collection, qualitative data analysis, wrote the first draft
position: research officer
qualifications: Grad Cert (Manag Comm)
contribution: original concept, development of the intervention, contributed to drafts
position: WRAP project manager
Australia
Project Manager for an integrated care trial for women dependent on illicit drugs. Women included in the trial include women on methadone, pregnant women and/or women with young children, polydrug using women and Aboriginal women dependent on illicit drugs and/or alcohol. Also a community development project is included in an area of high drug use.
qualifications: GradDip (addiction studies)
contribution: original concept, development and supervision of the intervention, contributed to drafts
position: WRAP project officer
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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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