Associate Professor Kirsty Douglas
Associate Professor Kirsty Douglas (MBBS, Dip. RACOG, MD, FRACGP) is a part-time Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute, The Australian National University.
After completing her undergraduate training in medicine at the University of Adelaide, Professor Douglas undertook doctoral studies at Oxford, investigating the epidemiology of eclampsia in the United Kingdom.
Returning to Australia she completed her GP specialty training and took up practice in Canberra.
She later joined the staff of the University of Sydney Canberra Clinical School and then the ANU Medical School where, as Acting Associate Dean for Rural and Community, she helped to establish the medical school’s GP and population health curricula and its Rural Clinical School.
Professor Douglas’ prime focus during the formative years of the ANU Medical School was on curriculum development and teaching but she maintained a research interest in childhood obesity, workforce and social epidemiology.
Now at the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute the focus of her research interests are in the broad areas of organisation, financing, delivery and performance of primary health care, including its interaction with public health and the secondary and tertiary health care sectors.
She is particularly interested in improving the impact of research on health policy.
Throughout her academic career Professor Douglas has continued to work clinically, in private general practice for 12 years and now, as a part time Medical Officer at Winnunga Nimmityjah - the local Aboriginal Medical Service.
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