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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.
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Original Research 3 August 2007
Impact of case management on rural women's quality of life and substance use
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IAHA Indigenous Allied Health Australia National Conference, 30 November–2 December 2026, Boorloo (Perth), Australia
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BC Rural Health Conference, 28–30 May 2027, Victoria, BC, Canada
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