Associate Professor Sally Nathan

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Sch of Public Health & Com Med

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9385 1061

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s.nathan@unsw.edu.au

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Associate Professor

Research: Sally Nathan’s career has been focussed on what it means to effectively engage consumers and community, in particular those who have been historically excluded from participation and decision-making in societal organisations and structures, including complex health systems.

Sally has been working in a research capacity at the University of New South Wales since 1999. Sally is the Convenor of Community Development & Qualitative Research Methods in the postgraduate programs in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine and is the public health and qualitative research expert member of the Independent Learning Project and Honours Committee (the research component of the undergraduate medical program) and has an active role in the delivery of the coursework component.

Sally’s research at UNSW has focused on the use of innovative methodologies and methods to measure and understand complex social processes and social change. This has included research into consumer and community participation in health as well as research approaches which engage and partner directly with vulnerable and marginalised communities and the organisations that represent and advocate for them. Sally has published on consumer/community participation in health service decision-making and governance (PhD awarded in 2013), advocacy by the non-government sector, capacity building for health development, adolescent drug and alcohol treatment (in partnership with the Ted Noff’s Foundation), Aboriginal health and well being and refugee settlement. Sally recieved the 2014 Dean's Rising Star Award: Significant Contributions to Research and the 2013 UNSW Faculty of Medicine, Young Investigator Prize.

Current research:

A team of researchers led by Dr Nathan at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine together with the Ted Noffs Foundation and academics from the Centre for Social Research in Health and the School of Social Sciences have been awarded an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, funded in 2014 for three years: 2014- 2017 (ongoing to 2019): ARC Linkage LP140100429; Positive life pathways for vulnerable adolescents: The role of a life management program approach. Investigators: Nathan Sally, Rawstorne Patrick, Hayen Andrew, Bryant Joanne, Baldry Eileen (UNSW Australia) and Ferry Mark (Ted Noffs Foundation). https://sphcm.med.unsw.edu.au/research/child-and-adolescent-health/our-projects/positive-life-pathways-vulnerable-adolescents

Funded in 2017 : The Lowtija Institute. Career pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health professionals, $254,351 over 2 years. Lead Investigator. Project is a partnership with other key academics from UNSW and Western Sydney University, as well as Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organistions and local area health districts in NSW, Australia. https://www.lowitja.org.au/page/research/research-categories/health-services-and-workforce/workforce/projects/career-pathways

Teaching and supervision: Sally convenes two popular electives in the School of Public Health Masters programs - Qualitative Research Methods and Community Development. Sally has been recognised for her excellence in teaching and supervision over the past decade with consistently high student ratings of her teaching and as a recipient of the following awards:

2019 UNSW Vice Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching

2018 Faculty of Medicine Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Research Supervision

2018 School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Research Supervision

2010 UNSW Faculty of Medicine, Learning and Teaching Award, Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning

Qualifications :

2007 - 2013 PhD awarded in November 2013

1996 – 1999 Master of Public Health, University of New South Wales

1985 - 1988 Bachelor of Science (Psychology) with Honours, University of New South Wales

Grants :

CURRENT GRANTS/PROJECTS:

MAJOR FUNDING RECEIVED:

2017-2018: UNSW Medicine funded Qualitative Network Hub to build qualitative research capacity at UNSW, $217,258 over 2 years. Dr Husna Razee, Dr Sally Nathan (SPHCM) and Professor Katherine Boydell (Black Dog Institute)

2017-2019: The Lowtija Institute. Career pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health professionals, $254,351 over 2 years. Lead Investigator. Project is a partnership with other key academics from UNSW and Western Sydney University, as well as Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organistions and local area health districts in NSW, Australia.

2014- 2017 (ext to 2019): ARC Linkage LP140100429 funded in 2014; Positive life pathways for vulnerable adolescents: The role of a life management program approach. Investigators: Nathan Sally, Rawstorne Patrick, Hayen Andrew, Bryant Joanne, Baldry Eileen (UNSW Australia), Ferry Mark (Ted Noffs Foundation) and Dr Megan Williams (WSU); Budget: $477,323 over 3 years including $329,557.00 ARC and Partner Organisation cash funding and in-kind partner commitments of $147,766.00.

2012-2015 (ongoing): CI on NHMRC Grant APP1043693 (Awarded 2012) . Scientific Title: Sexual and reproductive health and behaviours of young offenders (14-18 years) in NSW & Qld. Budget: $869,730.47 over 4 years lead by Tony Butler at the Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity.

2009-2011: ARC Linkage LP0989930 funded three-year study: Social Cohesion through Football, Investigators; Nathan S, Evers C, Jackson-Pulver L, Henley R. A cohort impact study investigating the implementation of a football program over a three year period examining processes and impacts on individual health/wellbeing, social inclusion and cohesion in areas of Sydney with high humanitarian refugee settlement. $341,000 plus partner funds over 3 years.

Awards :

2018 School and Faculty Awards for Excellence in Higher Degree Research Student Supervision

2014 Dean's Rising Star Award: Significant Contributions to Research

2013 UNSW Faculty of Medicine, Young Investigator Prize

2010 UNSW Faculty of Medicine, Learning and Teaching Award, Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning

Nathan S, Evers C, Jackson-Pulver L, Henley R 2009 UNSW Staff Excellence Awards, Excellence in Community Engagement Group Award, Football United

Research

Research activities :

Current projects:

Research Activity Links :

Positive life pathways for vulnerable adolescents: The role of a life management program approach

Socio-economic Objective (SEO) tags :

Social Class and Inequalities

Equity and Access to Education

Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Migrant Development and Welfare

Field of Research (FOR) Tag :

Public Health and Health Services

Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation and Social Impact Assessment

Culture, Gender, Sexuality

Social and Community Psychology

Teaching & Supervision

Areas of supervision :

Drug and alcohol treatment, vulnerable youth; consumer and community engagement, Aboriginal health and well being. Qualitative and mixed methods.

Currently supervising :

Robert Stirling - DrPH examining performance measurement in the NGO drug and alcohol treatment sector; Sally Fitzpatrick - DrPH examining teaching Aboriginal health and well being to post graduate public health students;Tewodros Getachew - PhD student examining experiences and attitudes to couples HIV testing and counselling in Ethiopia; Sarita Bista (PhD student at UTS) examining health data linked to records of adolescents who have attended drug and alcohol residential treatment provided by a leading NGO over the past 15 years; Rob Cunningham - PhD examining young adults life experiences following involvement with Football United; Telphia Joseph, Scientia PhD examining career pathways for Aboriginal people working in the health system.

Previous research student supervision:

DrPH, Primary Supervisor, examining health systems strengthening in Papua New Guinea awarded in 2018; MPhil, Primary Supervisor, examining the lived experiences of fathers of boys diagnosed with Duchenne 's Muscular Dystrophy awarded in 2018; Master by Research, Primary Supervisor awarded degree in 2017, Factors contributing to non-occupational falls from ladders in men 50 years and over. PhD Co-Supervisor: The role of peer educators in promoting quality use of medicines among seniors, 2008. Numerous Medicine ILPs and Honours including: 1) Finding structure and fitting in: The experience of drug-dependent adolescents in a residential life management program, 2006. 2) An ethonographic study of Football in the Park: An initiative for refugee youth in the Western Suburbs 2008 - Community Development through Sport: Lessons from Football United 3) The role of staff in a therapeutic community for adolescents with drug dependence issues, 2010; 4) The role of social networking and an on-line tool in supporting young people post discharge from a residential drug treatment program, 2011; 5) Examining the long-term health and social outcomes of adolescent residential alcohol and other drug treatment services in NSW and the ACT. A feasibility project (primary supervisor), 2013 6) Refugee Youth Soccer primary-secondary school mentoring program; a pilot study 2013 (co-sup). 6) 2-3 ILP/Hons students each year since 2015 participating in research associated with the Youth Pathways study.

Supervision keywords :

alcohol and other drug treatment

consumer and community engagement (cce)

aboriginal and torres strait islander people

alcohol and drug use

aboriginal and torres strait islander peoples

aboriginal drug and alcohol

aboriginal health services

sexual health

adolescent medicine

child mental health

Teaching :

Sally is the Convenor of Community Development & Qualitative Research Methods in the postgraduate programs in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine and is the public health and qualitative research expert member of the Independent Learning Project Committee (the research component of the undergraduate medical program) and has an active role in the delivery of the coursework component. Sally has been recognised for her excellence in teaching and supervision over the past decade with consistently high student ratings of her teaching and as a recipient of the following awards:

2019 UNSW Vice Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching

2018 Faculty of Medicine Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Research Supervision

2018 School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Research Supervision

2010 UNSW Faculty of Medicine, Learning and Teaching Award, Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning

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