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Odette is a Kuku Yalanji/Torres Strait Islander woman jointly appointed as a Senior Research Fellow with Wardliparingga Aboriginal Research Unit at South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute and the Sansom Institute for Health Research within University of South Australia. Her experience and post-doctoral training in Aboriginal health policy, health systems and inequity comprises a unique comprehensive skillset relevant to existing and emerging complexities of Aboriginal health and well-being. Specifically, Odette seeks to understand how institutional policies and practices drive health and social inequities experienced by Indigenous populations. Her novel approach is the use of community-level information to show and explore the reasons for variations in disadvantage both within the Aboriginal community and between the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal community. Integral to her research is the inclusion of Aboriginal communities in defining their health and wellbeing and how Indigenous data can be governed in the future to derive greater benefit for the population. Her work traverses evidence-based policy development, health services research and epidemiology to identify and address health and social disadvantage and strengths among the Aboriginal population. Odette has expertise in (1) primary health care contexts and systems and their linkages with health and social services (2) conceptual development of Aboriginal specific well-being frameworks and indicators, and (3) using social and epidemiological research to develop policy for chronic disease prevention and management. With strong community and cross sector engagement her current research activities focus on how to reduce disadvantage by improving health and social system responses to better meet the needs of Aboriginal people.
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Research Output
Brokering Aboriginal people’s social and health service connections: A Program Facilitator’s reflection: A Program Facilitator’s reflection
Cantley, L., Brodie, T., Cooper, P., Pearson, O., Brown, A. & Howard, N., 16 Sep 2019, (Unpublished).Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
Integration of decolonising methods within a scoping review to provide culturally relevant understandings of programs addressing the social determinants of health.
Brodie, T., Howard, N., Pearson, O., Addressing the Social Determinants of Health Advisory Group, Canuto, K. & Brown, A., Jun 2019.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
Lifetime risk of child protection system involvement in South Australia for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children, 1986–2017 using linked administrative data
Segal, L., Nguyen, H., Mansor, M. M., Gnanamanickam, E., Doidge, J. C., Preen, D. B., Brown, D. S., Pearson, O. & Armfield, J., 1 Nov 2019, In : Child Abuse and Neglect. 97, 104145.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Reflective practice as a program evaluation tool for systems improvement
Brodie, T., Howard, N., Pearson, O., Cantley, L., Cooper, P. & Brown, A., Sep 2019, (Unpublished).Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption correlates and interventions among Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: A scoping review.
Wright, K., Dono, J., Brownbill, A., Pearson, O., Bowden, J., Wycherley, T. P., Keech, W., O'Dea, K., Roder, D., Avery, J. & Miller, C., 2019, In : BMJ Open. 9Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Activities
Australian health review : a publication of the Australian Hospital Association (Journal)
Odette Pearson (Reviewer)1 Nov 2019 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
Reconciliation SA (External organisation)
Odette Pearson (Chair)10 Dec 2018 → 10 Dec 2021
Activity: Membership › Membership of board
Adelaide Fringe Board (External organisation)
Odette Pearson (Chair)31 Oct 2018 → 31 Oct 2021
Activity: Membership › Membership of board
Aboriginal Health Research Ethics Committee
Odette Pearson (Participant)1 Jun 2014 → …
Activity: Other