Professor Roxanne Bainbridge is a Gunggari/Kunja woman from South-Western Queensland. She previously worked as a Professorial Research Fellow in Indigenous Health at Central Queensland University Australia; Adjunct to The Cairns Institute at James Cook University; and an inaugural Senior Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity at the University of Melbourne / the University of Oxford. With a background in anthropology, Roxanne focusses her interests on medical anthropology as a culturally constructive critique of the biomedical sciences and policy-makers that provides new understandings of human health, wellness and illness for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Roxanne is an engaged researcher/evaluator with extensive experience leading, collaborating and coordinating projects with international, national and local teams. Her methodological expertise is in high impact applied research conducted in participatory and action-oriented research approaches embedded in improvement and systems sciences. Specific proficiencies are in research impact assessment and evaluation; improvement sciences; systems sciences; mixed methods; phronetic grounded theory; systematic literature reviews; and auto/ethnographic approaches. Roxanne applies her methodological expertise and concepts of Indigenous data sovereignty and governance to projects in Indigenous health, e.g. mental health and suicide, adolescent psychosocial wellbeing, social and emotional wellbeing across the life course, health services research, child and maternal health, palliative care, binge drinking and health promotion; and, in education, e.g. engagement, pedagogy, school transitions, inclusive practice and mentoring).
Over the last 10 years she was Lead/Chief Investigator on a total of 52 grants attracting $37.230m. Of 119 publications, 74 are peer-reviewed articles in national/international peer-reviewed journals; 18 are systematic reviews; 18 are reports for government and community-controlled organisations; 12 chapters; 1 peer-reviewed conference paper; 4 peer-reviewed commissioned works; 1 book; and developed government and community health and educational resources. Systematic literature reviews (including Cochrane) in various content areas for Indigenous populations, e.g. Indigenous research impact, social and emotional wellbeing interventions and measurement tools, mentoring, alcohol and other drugs, resilience strategies, Indigenous research education, child and maternal health, cultural competence, sexual assault, family-centred interventions, health promotion tools, program transfer and Indigenous community governance. She is currently the lead investigator on a 1) 4-year national evaluation of the Commonwealth Government’s investment in Indigenous Primary Healthcare, and 2) ARC Engaging adolescents to improve mental healthcare in Indigenous primary healthcare services.
Journal Article: What Matters to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Youth (WM2Y): a study protocol to develop a national youth well-being measure
Garvey, Gail, Howard, Kirsten, Garvey, Darren, Dickson, Michelle, Howell, M, Butler, Tamara L, Cadet-James, Yvonne, Cunningham, Joan, Bainbridge, Roxanne, McGorry, Patrick, Williamson, A and Anderson, Kate Mallory (2024). What Matters to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Youth (WM2Y): a study protocol to develop a national youth well-being measure. BMJ Open, 14 (3) e076119, e076119. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076119
Journal Article: How to address inequity for Indigenous patients in the Australian health system: Samuel’s story
Hou, Xiang-Yu, Kander, Yashni and Bainbridge, Roxanne (2024). How to address inequity for Indigenous patients in the Australian health system: Samuel’s story. Reports on Global Health Research, 7 (1) 187. doi: 10.29011/2690-9480.100187
Other Outputs: First Nations Health Equity Strategy Monitoring and Evaluation Framework: Technical Report
Bainbridge, Roxanne, Langham, Erika, Ballangarry, Julie, Doran, Christopher and Ward, James (2023). First Nations Health Equity Strategy Monitoring and Evaluation Framework: Technical Report. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland; UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health. doi: 10.14264/db42c9b
Evaluation of the Building the Rural and Remote Allied Health Assistant Workforce (BRAHAW) Project
(2024–2025) Services for Australian Rural & Remote Allied Health EOI
(2024) National Association of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Practitioners
ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures
(2023–2030) ARC Centres of Excellence
Exploring models of care for optimal care of acute mental health crises in Indigenous patients
Doctor Philosophy
Understanding the Role of Aboriginal Traditional Healings in Modern Day Australia
Doctor Philosophy
The impact of coercive control on First Nations school-age childrens education and social and emotional wellbeing
Doctor Philosophy
Garvey, Gail, Howard, Kirsten, Garvey, Darren, Dickson, Michelle, Howell, M, Butler, Tamara L, Cadet-James, Yvonne, Cunningham, Joan, Bainbridge, Roxanne, McGorry, Patrick, Williamson, A and Anderson, Kate Mallory (2024). What Matters to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Youth (WM2Y): a study protocol to develop a national youth well-being measure. BMJ Open, 14 (3) e076119, e076119. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076119
How to address inequity for Indigenous patients in the Australian health system: Samuel’s story
Hou, Xiang-Yu, Kander, Yashni and Bainbridge, Roxanne (2024). How to address inequity for Indigenous patients in the Australian health system: Samuel’s story. Reports on Global Health Research, 7 (1) 187. doi: 10.29011/2690-9480.100187
Mahmoud, Ibrahim, Sanjida, Saira, Schwenn, Paul, Hashem, Ibrahim Abaker, Collin, Harry, Chu, Kevin, Bainbridge, Roxanne and Hou, Xiang-Yu (2023). Incidence of discharge against medical advice in Queensland hospital emergency departments among Indigenous patients from 2016 to 2021. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 1-10. doi: 10.1007/s40615-023-01786-0
Collective responsibility for Indigenous peoples: a philosophical inquiry
Hou, Xiang-Yu and Bainbridge, Roxanne (2023). Collective responsibility for Indigenous peoples: a philosophical inquiry. International Journal of Nursing and Health Care Research, 6 (6), 1-5. doi: 10.29011/2688-9501.101437
Xiang-Yu, Hou, Holzapfel, S., Sanjida, S. and Bainbridge, R. (2023). An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander showcase day from Brisbane Metro North Health: a personal reflection. Journal of Healthcare and Nursing Research, 5 (1). doi: 10.36266/JHNR/135
Bainbridge, Roxanne (2023). If not now, when? Implementation failure of a rights- and value-based policy agenda for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. Australian Health Review, 47 (1), 1-2. doi: 10.1071/AH23011
Morley, Sindi, Benveniste, Tessa and Bainbridge, Roxanne (2023). Exploring Queensland secondary teacher induction training undertaken prior to working with remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 52 (1). doi: 10.55146/ajie.v52i1.32
Chakraborty, Amal, Walke, Emma, Bainbridge, Roxanne, Bailie, Ross, Matthews, Veronica, Larkins, Sarah, Burgess, Paul, Askew, Deborah, Langham, Erika, Smorgon, Samantha, Swaminathan, Girish, Cameron, Danielle, Piccoli, Tracey and Passey, Megan (2022). VOICE–Validating Outcomes by Including Consumer Experience: A study protocol to develop a patient reported experience measure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples accessing primary health care. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20 (1) 357, 1-15. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20010357
Indigenous Australians’ experiences of cancer care: a narrative literature review
Sanjida, Saira, Garvey, Gail, Ward, James, Bainbridge, Roxanne, Shakeshaft, Anthony, Hadikusumo, Stephanie, Nelson, Carmel, Thilakaratne, Prabasha and Hou, Xiang-Yu (2022). Indigenous Australians’ experiences of cancer care: a narrative literature review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (24) 16947, 1-13. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192416947
Cunningham, Frances Clare, Potts, Boyd Alexander, Ramanathan, Shanthi Ann, Bailie, Jodie, Bainbridge, Roxanne Gwendalyn, Searles, Andrew, Laycock, Alison Frances and Bailie, Ross Stewart (2022). Network evaluation of an innovation platform in continuous quality improvement in Australian Indigenous primary healthcare. Health Research Policy and Systems, 20 (1) 119, 1-18. doi: 10.1186/s12961-022-00909-z
McCalman, Janya, Bainbridge, Roxanne, Russo, Sandra, Rutherford, Katrina, Tsey, Komla, Wenitong, Mark, Shakeshaft, Anthony, Doran, Chris and Jacups, Susan (2016). Psycho-social resilience, vulnerability and suicide prevention: impact evaluation of a mentoring approach to modify suicide risk for remote Indigenous Australian students at boarding school. BMC Public Health, 16 (1) 98. doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-2762-1
First Nations Health Equity Strategy Monitoring and Evaluation Framework: Technical Report
Bainbridge, Roxanne, Langham, Erika, Ballangarry, Julie, Doran, Christopher and Ward, James (2023). First Nations Health Equity Strategy Monitoring and Evaluation Framework: Technical Report. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland; UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health. doi: 10.14264/db42c9b
Evaluation of the Building the Rural and Remote Allied Health Assistant Workforce (BRAHAW) Project
(2024–2025) Services for Australian Rural & Remote Allied Health EOI
(2024) National Association of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Practitioners
ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures
(2023–2030) ARC Centres of Excellence
Develop a state-wide First Nations Health Equity Strategy Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
(2023) Queensland Health
(2022–2025) NHMRC MRFF - Indigenous Health Research Grant
(2022–2023) ALLEN+CLARKE CONSULTING
Building a national research network and agenda to progress urban Indigenous health
(2022) UQ Indigenous Research Engagement and Partnerships Fund
Exploring models of care for optimal care of acute mental health crises in Indigenous patients
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Understanding the Role of Aboriginal Traditional Healings in Modern Day Australia
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
The impact of coercive control on First Nations school-age childrens education and social and emotional wellbeing
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Rates and effects of hearing loss and middle ear dysfunction in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adult population
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor