Professor Guy Robinson - Director CRHaCD

• Editor of the international journal, Land Use Policy.
• UK National Representative on the International Geographical Union's Commission on Rural Sustainability.
• Convenor of the Rural Geography Research of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers.
• Peer reviewer for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRAY) and member of the UK National Waste and Resources Management NETwork.

Guy has published nine books (four of them major textbooks) and more than 120 book chapters and papers in refereed journals, many of them of international standing.  He has also received research income from European, national and local government, research councils and charitable foundations (equivalent to Australian Competitive Grants), overseas institutions and local government.

Guy's research has been primarily at the interface of human geography and environmental concerns, focusing on management and planning issues, waste management and initiatives relating the sustainable development, and problems in political and social geography.  He recently worked on projects examining rural power, access to rural housing, provision of rural services, community-based environment management, organic farming and the role of rural citizens as stakeholders in the development.

Guy has a successful record of supervising Higher Degree by Research students, and has been principal supervisor for 14 and the second supervisor for 6 successfully completed PhD's.  Combined with his wealth of managerial and administrative experience, he will provide the necessary leadership and research expertise to build on the substantial base already established at CHRaCD.

Associate Professor Gary Misan

• He has a PhD in Drug Usage Evaluation and is a pharmacist by training.
• In addition to his research role with SGRHS Dr Misan is a key researcher with the UniSA Centre for Rural Health and Community Development and a Research Associate of the UniSA Nutritional Physiology Research Centre.
• Gary's research interests include metabolic syndrome, men's health, chronic disease self-management, quality use of medicines, and early detection and management of chronic disease in Aboriginal Communities.
• Gary is currently Project Manager for the Whyalla Shape Up for Life community-based diet and exercise study and was Project Director for the Sharing Health Care SA Chronic Disease Self-management Project which finished in 2005.
• He has substantial research project management experience and has obtained over $3 million in research and project funding since joining SGRHS.
• He has over 40 peer-reviewed publications to his credit. For more information please visit Gary's homepage.

Professor Jonathan Newbury

• As Head of Spencer Gulf Rural Health School (SGRHS) his academic responsibilities include rural education for medical, nursing and allied health students, fostering relevant rural and indigenous health research and teaching International Health.
• He continues in general practice at the Investigator Clinic, Port Lincoln and leads the management of SGRHS from the University of South Australia's Whyalla campus.

Dr. Judy Taylor

• Judy Taylor has recently been awarded a four year research fellowship from the Primary Health Care Research and Development program to study community factors affecting community health development and health outcomes.
• She will develop collaborations with other researchers interested in this topic at the University of Adelaide, the Hawke Institute, the Unaipon research centre and James Cook University.
• Judys background is in community and health services development in Australian regional, rural and remote locations.
• She has combined this background with an academic career focusing on aspects of community functioning that affect the implementation of health programs and services.
• udy will shortly publish a text Working with communities in health and human services. For more information please visit Judy's homepage.

Dr. Peter Harvey

• He currently manages the Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Aboriginal Health.  This is a project funded by the NH&MRC ($1.9m) in collaboration with Flinders University and the Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia. 
• He also supervises medical students for their research unit at fourth year and supervises a PhD student who is developing mixed modelling techniques for analysing repeated measure, longitudinal research data.
• Peter was recently appointed to manage the new State Wide Service for Problem Gambling run through Flinders University.  This project will involve the development of a range of rural and metropolitan service provision clinics to support problem gamblers across SA and implement research into the impact of the Flinders University cognitive behaviour therapy approach to treating gambling addiction.
• He is also a chief investigator with the Centre of Clinical Research Excellence (CCRE) in Aboriginal Health (Flinders) and the Centre for Metabolic Fitness (UniSA) and in the past has led research projects in chronic disease prevention and management (the South Australian Coordinated Care Trial and the Sharing Health Care SA chronic condition self-management project).
• Peter's  main area of publication is chronic illness prevention, management and self-management as well as population health and health system change.

Associate Professor Mary Oliver

John Petkov

Research Fellows

Dr. Genevieve Baritiny

• Her current research activities and principal research interest focus on the epidemiology, early detection and prevention of chronic diseases, in particular cancer.
• Genevieve has managed a wide range of population health research projects, including an international clinical drug trial in Australia, New Zealand and Finland.  She has worked as a consultant to the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre (Oncology Clinicians and Indigenous Cultural Competency Training, 2008), the Cancer Council of NSW (Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) testing in NSW, 2006; and Discrete-choice Experiment for Treatment Preferences for Prostate Cancer, 2005) and the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (Cervical Cancer and HPV Survey, 2005).
• Genevieve's teaching experience covers, among other topics, the basic tenets of epidemiology and quantitative research methods.
• She is experienced in the design and conduct of evidenced-based interventions, including randomising controlled trials and cross-sectional studies, including questionnaire design, and postal, CATI and web-based surveys.

Dr. Matt Haren

• Dr Haren was a post-doctoral fellow at St. Louis University School of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics studying the regulation of muscle mass and maintenance of physical function during the ageing process using animal, molecular and human epidemiological research methods.
• Research interests include mens health, ageing, androgens and metabolic disease. He has an emerging interest in the differences in health determinants between urban, rural and remote populations and Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians and is currently involved in planning a cohort study in Whyalla to investigate these factors around respiratory and metabolic health.
• He has co-authored over 15 peer-reviewed articles and 4 book chapters to date.

Dr Jane Edwards           

Christine Franks

Dr.Georgie Stamp

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