Associate Professor Melissa Haswell-Elkins

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Sch of Public Health & Com Med

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02-9385-3324

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m.haswell@unsw.edu.au

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Conjoint Professor

Research Methologies: Community-based participatory action research, epidemiology and statistics, qualitative methods, intervention studies, psychometrics, population biology, laboratory methods.

Discipline Areas: Mental health and social and emotional wellbeing, empowerment interventions (individual, organisational and structural levels), suicide and other injury prevention, prison health, physical activity promotion, diabetes and renal disease, environmental health, housing and infrastructure.

Research Settings: Indigenous Communities in Australia (Sydney, Central, Southeast and Far North Queensland Aboriginal communities, Torres Strait Islands, Alice Springs), Northeast Thailand (rice farming villages), South India (fishing villages), USA (migrant farm worker families in North Carolina).

Qualifications:
MSc, PhD

Specific Research Keywords:
Aboriginal Mental Health, Primary Health Care, Wellbeing, Social Determinants of Health, Health and Human Rights

Research

Research Activity Links :

Returning home, back to community from custodial care

Scoping Study for a Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation Healing Centre

Evaluation of Australian Defence Indigenous Entry Programs

Socio-economic Objective (SEO) tags :

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health - Health System Performance (incl. Effectiveness of Interventions)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health - Health Status and Outcomes

Environmental Health

Field of Research (FOR) Tag :

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

Primary Health Care

Mental Health

Social and Community Psychology

Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety

Teaching & Supervision

Supervision keywords :

aboriginal and torres strait islander peoples

public health

power (psychology)

drug and substance abuse

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https://au.linkedin.com/pub/melissa-haswell/22/3b9/971/

Publications related to this Person

Books

Haswell-Elkins M; Hunter E; Wargent R; Hall B; O''higgins C; West R, 2009, Protocols for the delivery of social and emotional well being and mental health services in Indigenous communities: guidelines for health workers, clinicians, consumers and carers, Original, University of Queensland and Queensland Health, Cairns

Book Chapters

Sithithaworn P; Sripa B; Kaewkes S; Nawa Y; Haswell MR, 2013, 'Food-borne Trematodes', in Manson's Tropical Diseases: Twenty-Third Edition, pp. 726 - 736, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-7020-5101-2.00054-6

Laliberte A; Nagel T; Haswell-Elkins M, 2010, 'Low intensity CBT with Indigenous consumers: Creative solutions for culturally appropriate mental health care', in Bennett-Levy J; Farrand P; Christensen H; Griffiths K; Kavanagh D (ed.), Oxford Guide to Low Intensity CBT Interventions, edn. 1, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 577 - 585, http://www.oup.com.au/titles/academic/psychology/9780199590117

Sithithaworn P; Sripa B; Kaewkes S; Haswell-Elkins M, 2009, 'Food-borne trematodes', in Cook GC; Zumla AI (ed.), Manson`s Tropical Diseases, edn. 22nd, Elsevier, London, pp. 1461 - 1476

Journal articles

McDonald J; Haswell M, 2013, 'Indigenous men's groups and social and emotional well-being: An indigenous doctor's perspective', Australasian Psychiatry, vol. 21, pp. 490 - 493, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1039856213498430

Haswell MR; Wheeler T; Wargent R; Brownlie A; Tulip F; Baird M; Gardiner L; Jackson Pulver L, 2013, 'Validation and enhancement of australian aboriginal and torres strait islander psychiatric hospitalisation statistics through an indigenous mental health worker register', Rural and Remote Health, vol. 13

Laliberte A; Haswell-Elkins M; Tsey K, 2013, 'Promoting the health of Aboriginal Australians through empowerment: Eliciting the components of the family well-being empowerment and leadership programme', International Journal Health Promotion and Education, vol. 19, pp. 29 - 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757975912464247

Jersky M; Callaghan L; Zwi K; Osborne P; Fitzpatrick SA; Haswell-Elkins M; Freeman N, 2013, 'Giving Shape to Experience in an Urban Aboriginal Community: the Ngala Nanga Mai (We Dream) pARenT Group Program', UNESCO Observatory E-Journal Multi-disciplinary Research in the Arts, vol. 3, pp. 1 - 27, http://web.education.unimelb.edu.au/UNESCO/ejournal/index.html

Jackson Pulver L; Haswell-Elkins M; Fitzpatrick S, 2011, 'Healing, Empowerment and Resilience Across the Lifespan – Views from an academic unit', Dialogue, vol. 30, pp. 36 - 43, http://www.assa.edu.au/publications/dialogue/2011_Vol30_No2.php

Tsey K; Whiteside M; Haswell-Elkins M; Bainbridge R; Cadet-james Y; Wilson A, 2010, 'The contribution of empowerment to Indigenous Australian health: the case of Family Wellbeing Empowerment Program', Health and Social Care in the Community, vol. 18, pp. 169 - 179, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2524.2009.00885.x

Haswell-Elkins M; Kavanagh DJ; Tsey K; Reilly L; Cadet-James Y; Laliberte A; Wilson A; Doran CM, 2010, 'Psychometric validation of the Growth and Empowerment Measure (GEM) applied with Indigenous Australians', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 44, pp. 791 - 799, http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048674.2010.482919

Santhanam R; Mckewan A; Bainbridge R; Hunter E; Haswell-Elkins M; Tsey K, 2009, 'Adapting the Australian Public Mental Health Performance Indicators to the contextual needs of a remote area child and youth mental health service', Australian Indigenous Health Bulletin, vol. 9, http://healthbulletin.org.au/articles/adapting-the-australian-public-mental-health-performance-indicators-to-the-contextual-needs-of-a-remote-area-child-and-youth-mental-health-service/

Laliberte A; Haswell-Elkins M; Reilly L, 2009, 'The healing journey: empowering Aboriginal communities to close the health gap', Australasian Psychiatry, vol. 17, pp. S64 - S67, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10398560902948704

Haswell-Elkins M; Reilly L; Fagan R; Ypinazar V; Hunter E; Tsey K; Gibson V; Connolly B; Laliberte A; Wargent R; Gibson T; Saunders V; McCalman J; Kavanagh D, 2009, 'Listening, sharing understanding and facilitating consumer, family and community empowerment through a priority driven partnership in Far North Queensland', Australasian Psychiatry, vol. 17, pp. S54 - S58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10398560902948688

Conference Papers

Lo WW; Jackson Pulver L; Haswell-Elkins M; Fitzpatrick S; Meyer L, 2011, 'Rethinking the Yarn: Redesigning Cultural and Communications Training for Medical Students', in Rethinking the Yarn: Redesigning Cultural and Communications Training for Medical Students, Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) Connection IV Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, presented at Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) Connection IV Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 29 November 2011 - 01 December 2011

Conference Presentations

Comino E; Grace R; Jackson-Pulver L; Haswell-Elkins M; Zwi K, 2013, 'Building partnerships to support research with Aboriginal children and families: time, trust, and tenacity.', in Building partnerships to support research with Aboriginal children and families: time, trust, and tenacity., Primary Health Care Research Conference, Sydney NSW, presented at Primary Health Care Research Conference, Sydney NSW, 10 July 2013 - 12 July 2013

Reports

Bethmont A; Haswell-Elkins M; Arkles R; Blignault I, 2015, Review of potentially useful tools and methods for evaluating healing programs for Aboriginal Australians affected by the Stolen Generations, Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation and Healing Foundation

Haswell-Elkins M; Williams M; Blignault I; Grand Ortega M; Jackson Pulver L, 2014, Returning Home: Back to Community from Custodial Care, Commonwealth Department of Health, http://aphcri.anu.edu.au/aphcri-network/research-completed/returning-home-back-community-custodial-care-evaluation

Blignault I; Jackson Pulver L; Fitzpatrick S; Arkles R; Williams M; Haswell-Elkins M; Grand Ortega M, 2014, A Resource for Collective Healing for Members of the Stolen Generations: Planning, implementing and evaluating effective local responses, Healing Foundation, Australia, http://healingfoundation.org.au/wordpress/wp-content/files_mf/1423532203MuruMarriSCREENsingles.pdf

Haswell-Elkins M; Blignault I; Fitzpatrick S; Jackson Pulver L, 2013, The Social and Emotional Wellbeing of Indigenous Youth: Reviewing and Extending the Evidence and Examining its Implications for Policy and Practice, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, https://sphcm.med.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/sphcm/Centres_and_Units/IYSEWB_ResearchReport_MM.pdf

Jackson Pulver L; Haswell-Elkins M; Ring I; Waldon J; Clark W; Whetung V; Kinnon D; Graham C; Chino M; Lavalley J; Sadana R, 2010, Indigenous health – Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and the United States – Laying claim to a future that embraces us all, World Health Organization, Geneva, World Health Report 2010, Background Paper 33, http://www.who.int/healthsystems/topics/financing/healthreport/IHNo33.pdf

Recorded / Rendered Creative Works

Haswell-Elkins M; Shearman D, 2014, Chief Scientist CSG report leaves health concerns unanswered, The Conversation, Australia, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, https://theconversation.com/chief-scientist-csg-report-leaves-health-concerns-unanswered-32422

Haswell-Elkins M; Washington H, 2014, Not so cheap: Australia needs to acknowledge the real cost of coal, The Conversation, Australia, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, https://theconversation.com/not-so-cheap-australia-needs-to-acknowledge-the-real-cost-of-coal-26640

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