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ProfessorKate Conigrave

Conjoint Professor

Faculty of Medicine and Health

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  • Conjoint Professor
    Faculty of Medicine and Health

RESEARCH INTERESTs

Kate's research has a focus on improving access to early detection and healthcare for alcohol and other drug problems. For more than 20 years Kate has worked in partnership with Aboriginal communities and agencies in research, teaching and clinical service delivery.

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Development of the first Culturally-based Social and Emotional Wellbeing program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people in prison
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal)1 Mar 2024 - 28 Feb 2027
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Making it easier for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primaryhealth care services to screen for risky drinking and provide tailored feedback: adapting the Grog Survey App
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal - administered by NHMRC)1 Jan 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Conigrave K,
    • Doyle M,
    • Percival N,
    • Chikritzhs T,
    • Hayman N
  • GRANT
    Making it easier for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care services to screen for risky drinking and provide tailored feedback: adapting the Grog Survey App
    Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal - administered by NHMRC)1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    • Chikritzhs T,
    • Dawson A,
    • Hayman NE,
    • Conigrave J,
    • Lee KSK
  • GRANT
    Working with Aboriginal families and health and social service providers to assess the feasibility of a novel care package to reduce cannabis and alcohol use and social stress in pregnancy
    MRFF Medical Research Future Fund1 Jun 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Conigrave K
  • GRANT
    Better data on methamphetamines and other drugs among Indigenous Australians to inform policy and practice
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Conigrave K,
    • Fitts M,
    • Ali R,
    • Chikritzhs T,
    • Conigrave J
  • GRANT
    A controlled trial of the effects of a community based alcohol education program in rural Sri Lankan villages on alcohol use, social dynamics and mental health outcomes
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jun 2018
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    A Centre for Research Excellence: Building Indigenous research capacity to find solutions to alcohol problems
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 May 2017 - 31 Dec 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Haber P,
    • Hayman N,
    • Lee KSK,
    • Wilson S,
    • Clifford A
  • GRANT
    Working with Indigenous services and communities to reduce the harms from alcohol
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • Conigrave K
  • GRANT
    Increasing uptake of evidence-based management of unhealthy alcohol use in Aboriginal primary health care services
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jun 2016 - 31 Dec 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Lee KSK,
    • Scrimgeour D,
    • Haber P,
    • Wilson S,
    • Dobbins T
  • GRANT
    Better methods to collect self-report data on alcohol use behaviours from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jun 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    • Wilkes E,
    • Gray D,
    • Hayman NE,
    • Room R,
    • Lee KSK
  • GRANT
    A model of outpatient alcohol withdrawal management for Aboriginal Australians
    Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education1 Sep 2013
    People funded by this grant:
    • Brett J,
    • Conigrave K
  • GRANT
    Unmet healthcare needs and barriers to healthcare utilisation of young Aboriginal drug users in inner city Sydney: a pilot study
    Health Administration Corporation5 Sep 2011
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Set-up of the centre of excellence - indigenous substance misuse.
    Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation1 Jul 2009
    People funded by this grant:
    • Conigrave K
  • GRANT
    Early intervention for hazardous alcohol use: an eight year follow-up
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2000
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hall WD,
    • Conigrave K,
    • Saunders J