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Robyn McDermott is a NHMRC Practitioner Fellow and Professor of Public Health in the School of Health Sciences and the Sansom Institute for Health Research.
Robyn joined UniSA in August 2004 as Pro Vice Chancellor and Vice President in the Division of Health Sciences and held this role for five years until 2009 when she became Foundation Director of the State-wide Data Linkage Unit, SA/NT Datalink. SA/NT DataLink is a joint venture between the three South Australian universities, the South Australian government and the NT Government. This collaboration is hosted by UniSA. After three years Robyn stepped down as Director of SA/NT Datalink and now maintains a role as Professor: Public Health in School of Population Health. Robyn also... Read more
About me
Robyn McDermott is a NHMRC Practitioner Fellow and Professor of Public Health in the School of Health Sciences and the Sansom Institute for Health Research.
Robyn joined UniSA in August 2004 as Pro Vice Chancellor and Vice President in the Division of Health Sciences and held this role for five years until 2009 when she became Foundation Director of the State-wide Data Linkage Unit, SA/NT Datalink. SA/NT DataLink is a joint venture between the three South Australian universities, the South Australian government and the NT Government. This collaboration is hosted by UniSA. After three years Robyn stepped down as Director of SA/NT Datalink and now maintains a role as Professor: Public Health in School of Population Health. Robyn also holds the position of Director of the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention at James Cook University.
Previously, Robyn has worked as a primary care clinician in rural New South Wales, the Northern Territory, South Australia and Queensland as well as managing refugee health care and public health programs from 1988 to 1992 in China, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. She has worked with Indigenous communities in central and northern Australia to understand the causes and consequences of rapid changes in living conditions and nutrition on health status, and how to intervene to improve health outcomes.
As a medical epidemiologist and public health physician in north Queensland from 1995 to 2004, she built capacity in community-level health information systems for rural Indigenous services. She also initiated the Chronic Disease Strategy and enhanced primary care programs adopted by Queensland Health in 2002.
About me
In South Australia Robyn has served as a member of the inaugural Health Performance Council to 2012 and the Public Health Council.
In the Northern Territory she serves as a member of the Academic Standing Committee at the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin.
She has served as member and then Chair of the NMHRC Grant Review Panels, Research and Practitioner Fellowship Panels, and CRE panels since 1998.
She is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine and member of the Australasian Epidemiological Association and the Australian Diabetes Society.
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of Sydney
Masters of Public Health Harvard University
Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery University of Sydney
Fellow, Faculty of Public Health The Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Robyn's research interests include the epidemiology of chronic disease and health transition, and how primary health care can improve outcomes in resource-poor settings. Her work on improving diabetes care systems in remote far north Queensland resulted in major changes to policy and practice, and was recognised by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) as one of the “best 10” projects in 2006.
More recently her focus has been the effective translation of research evidence into clinical and public health practice, with attention to systems issues including funding models, policy environment, information systems, workforce development and quality improvement in primary care settings.
Although coming late to... Read more
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
SA NT data linkage consortium-Motor Accident Commission-McDermott, Motor Accident Commission, 01/01/2009 - 30/12/2020
SA NT data linkage consortium-Cancer Council of South Australia-McDermott, Cancer Council South Australia, 01/01/2009 - 30/06/2020
Getting better at chronic care in rural indigenous communities, NHMRC - Partnership Project, 01/01/2010 - 31/12/2017
CRE for Prevention of Chronic Conditions in rural and remote high risk populations: A Collaboration between University of South Australia, the Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia, Queensland , APHCRI-Centre for Research Excellence, 01/01/2012 - 30/04/2017
Improving chronic disease outcomes for Indigenous Australians: Causes, Interventions, System Change, NHMRC - Program Grant, 01/01/2011 - 31/12/2016
Better chronic care, Queensland Health, 01/08/2010 - 31/03/2016
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2023 |
Open access
7
8
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| 2023 |
Open access
1
1
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| 2022 |
Open access
3
3
|
| 2022 |
Open access
11
12
8
|
| 2022 |
Open access
3
3
1
|
| 2021 |
Open access
1
3
|
| 2021 |
Open access
6
5
1
|
| 2021 |
6
5
|
| 2021 |
Open access
2
2
|
| 2020 |
4
5
|
| 2020 |
|
| 2020 |
8
8
|
| 2020 |
Open access
42
36
|
| 2020 |
Open access
6
5
|
| 2020 |
Open access
4
5
|
| 2020 |
Open access
3
3
|
| 2020 |
Open access
5
3
|
| 2019 |
Open access
21
20
|
| 2019 |
2
2
|
| 2019 |
Open access
3
4
|
| 2019 |
6
6
|
| 2019 |
1
2
|
| 2019 |
Open access
5
3
|
| 2019 |
Open access
5
4
|
| 2018 |
6
6
|
| 2018 |
Open access
2
2
1
|
| 2017 |
Open access
67
65
|
| 2017 |
Open access
20
20
3
|
| 2017 |
Open access
35
32
|
| 2017 |
2
1
|
| 2017 |
Open access
11
13
|
| 2017 |
Open access
1
2
|
| 2016 |
Open access
13
15
27
|
| 2016 |
Open access
3
3
|
| 2016 |
Open access
16
17
|
| 2016 |
Open access
7
7
|
| 2016 |
Open access
42
40
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| 2016 |
Open access
2
2
1
|
| 2016 |
Open access
26
21
|
| 2016 |
Open access
17
13
2
|
| 2016 |
|
| 2016 |
Open access
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| 2015 |
Open access
20
19
8
|
| 2015 |
82
77
11
|
| 2015 |
Open access
11
9
|
| 2015 |
Open access
11
8
|
| 2015 |
Open access
72
67
13
|
| 2015 |
Open access
1
|
| 2014 |
7
7
|
| 2014 |
Open access
5
5
|
| 2014 |
Open access
13
13
|
| 2014 |
Open access
16
14
7
|
| 2013 |
Open access
31
31
|
| 2013 |
Open access
15
11
|
| 2013 |
Open access
28
27
|
| 2013 |
Open access
16
15
|
| 2013 |
13
13
|
| 2013 |
Open access
3
3
|
| 2013 |
Open access
|
| 2013 |
10
10
|
| 2013 |
Open access
116
110
|
| 2013 |
Open access
10
9
|
| 2013 |
9
8
|
| 2013 |
16
15
|
| 2013 |
1
4
|
| 2013 |
7
8
|
| 2013 |
Open access
28
22
|
| 2012 |
22
20
|
| 2012 |
Open access
47
|
| 2012 |
7
6
|
| 2012 |
7
7
|
| 2012 |
Open access
|
| 2012 |
2
1
|
| 2012 |
Open access
14
14
|
| 2012 |
Open access
3
3
|
| 2012 |
Open access
1
4
|
| 2012 |
Open access
22
22
|
| 2012 |
Open access
7
8
|
| 2012 |
17
17
|
| 2012 |
|
| 2012 |
Open access
16
14
|
| 2012 |
Open access
18
18
|
| 2012 |
Open access
4
4
|
| 2012 |
8
9
|
| 2011 |
Open access
11
10
|
| 2011 |
Open access
16
16
|
| 2011 |
Open access
19
15
|
| 2011 |
Open access
18
17
|
| 2011 |
Open access
5
5
|
| 2011 |
Open access
2
2
|
| 2011 |
17
18
|
| 2011 |
|
| 2011 |
Open access
21
21
|
| 2011 |
50
44
|
| 2011 |
5
4
|
| 2010 |
Open access
54
54
|
| 2010 |
Open access
13
13
|
| 2010 |
Open access
45
40
|
| 2010 |
149
133
|
| 2010 |
4
4
|
| 2010 |
54
51
|
| 2010 |
11
10
|
| 2010 |
45
40
|
| 2010 |
6
6
|
| 2010 |
Open access
31
29
|
| 2010 |
6
6
|
| 2010 |
50
49
|
| 2010 |
Open access
11
10
|
| 2010 |
|
| 2010 |
Open access
33
31
|
| 2009 |
|
| 2009 |
Open access
1
|
| 2009 |
|
| 2009 |
23
19
|
| 2009 |
Open access
4
4
|
| 2009 |
|
| 2009 |
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| 2009 |
Open access
49
48
|
| 2008 |
McDermott, RA 2008, 'The political arithmetic of crowd disease', vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 7-8. |
| 2008 |
|
| 2008 |
98
101
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Research
Robyn's research interests include the epidemiology of chronic disease and health transition, and how primary health care can improve outcomes in resource-poor settings. Her work on improving diabetes care systems in remote far north Queensland resulted in major changes to policy and practice, and was recognised by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) as one of the “best 10” projects in 2006.
More recently her focus has been the effective translation of research evidence into clinical and public health practice, with attention to systems issues including funding models, policy environment, information systems, workforce development and quality improvement in primary care settings.
Although coming late to the formal research world, she has earned more than $7 million in NHMRC research grant funding as lead investigator and more than $8million as co-investigator.
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| Apunipima Cape York Health Council | AUSTRALIA |
| Australian National University | AUSTRALIA |
| Badu Island Health Centre | AUSTRALIA |
| Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute | AUSTRALIA |
| Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service | AUSTRALIA |
| Cairns Base Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
| Central Australian Aboriginal Congress | AUSTRALIA |
| Central Northern Adelaide Health Service | AUSTRALIA |
| Charles Darwin University | AUSTRALIA |
| Cogstate Limited | AUSTRALIA |
| CSIRO Australia (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research organisation) | AUSTRALIA |
| Curtin University | AUSTRALIA |
| Deakin University | AUSTRALIA |
| Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Multicultural Affairs | AUSTRALIA |
| Department of Health and Families | UNITED STATES |
| Flinders Medical Centre | AUSTRALIA |
| Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
| Garvan Institute of Medical Research | AUSTRALIA |
| Griffith University | AUSTRALIA |
| Gurriny Yealamucka Health Service | AUSTRALIA |
| James Cook University | AUSTRALIA |
| Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Council | AUSTRALIA |
| La Trobe University | AUSTRALIA |
| LaTrobe Rural Health School | AUSTRALIA |
| Massey University | NEW ZEALAND |
| McKinsey and Company | AUSTRALIA |
| Menzies School of Health Research | AUSTRALIA |
| Monash University | AUSTRALIA |
| National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation | AUSTRALIA |
| National Heart Foundation of Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| Northern Territory Government | AUSTRALIA |
| Northern Territory Government of Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| OneSteel Whyalla Steelworks | AUSTRALIA |
| Orygen | AUSTRALIA |
| Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health | AUSTRALIA |
| Port Augusta Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
| Princess Alexandra Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
| Queensland Health | AUSTRALIA |
| Queensland University of Technology | AUSTRALIA |
| Royal Adelaide Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
| Royal Darwin Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
| SA Health | AUSTRALIA |
| Sheffield Hallam University | UNITED KINGDOM |
| South Australian Department of Health | AUSTRALIA |
| South Australian Health and Medical and Research Institute (SAHMRI) | AUSTRALIA |
| Southern Adelaide Health Service | AUSTRALIA |
| Southern Cross University | AUSTRALIA |
| St Vincent's Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
| The Prince Charles Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
| The Queen Elizabeth Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
| The University of Wollongong | AUSTRALIA |
| Top End Health Service | AUSTRALIA |
| Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Barcelona | SPAIN |
| University of British Columbia | CANADA |
| University of Cagliari | ITALY |
| University of Campinas | BRAZIL |
| University of Melbourne | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Montreal | CANADA |
| University of New South Wales | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Newcastle | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Oxford | UNITED KINGDOM |
| University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Tasmania | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Western Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Wollongong | AUSTRALIA |
| Urapuntja Health Service | AUSTRALIA |
| Victoria University of Wellington | NEW ZEALAND |
| Western Sydney University | AUSTRALIA |
| Women's and Children's Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
| Wuchopperen Health Service | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
|---|---|
Academic Standing CommitteeMenzies School of Health Research, Darwin |
2017 |
FellowFaculty of Public Health Medicine |
2017 |
MemberAustralasian Epidemiological Association (AEA) |
2017 |
MemberAustralian Diabetes Society |
2017 |
Council MemberPublic Health Council, South Australia |
2012 |
Council MemberHealth Performance Council, South Australia |
2012 |
Centre of Research Excellence award worth $2.5 millionAustralian Primary Health Care Research Institute |
2011 |
Fellowship worth $1.6 millionNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) |
2011 |
Practitioner Fellowships SchemeNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) |
2011 |
In the Northern Territory she serves as a member of the Academic Standing Committee at the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin.
She has served as member and then Chair of the NMHRC Grant Review Panels, Research and Practitioner Fellowship Panels, and CRE panels since 1998.
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander guideline-concordance and clinician-patient engagement for non-ST-elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes utilising hospital services administrative data and medical records | Completed |
| Early childhood education: does preschool attendance reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease? | Completed |
| Evaluating the effectiveness of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women's Fitness Program: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial | Completed |
| Evaluation of the implementation of non-invasive carbohydrate breath testing for the diagnosis of small intestinal disorders | Completed |
| Pre-pregnancy predictors of pregnancy events and birth outcomes in a cohort of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in North Queensland, Australia | Completed |
| The impact of primary health care resourcing on hospitalisation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults with type 2 diabetes in far north Queensland, Australia | Completed |
