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Personal profile
Biography
I have thirty years’ experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of health and human services for vulnerable Australians. I have held senior leadership roles in service delivery, program development, system reform, research and public policy.
Most of my career has been in the public sector in large-scale health and human services program design and delivery, funding and public policy. My roles have included leading Aged and Disability services for the NT Government, out of home care policy and funding for the NSW Government and shaping disability policy in NSW. I have also worked in the not-for-profit sector in senior leadership and operational roles and spent a year at Deloitte in their Economics practice. In addition, I have run my own micro-business for more than a decade.
In 2017 I graduated my PhD titled Applying collective impact to improve health services for Aboriginal people in rural and remote communities. My thesis included nine publications and won the Rita and John Cornforth Medal for PhD achievement – the only university-wide medal awarded for a PhD by the University of Sydney.
I initiated the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health program of high impact translational research in 2013 which included Aboriginal academics and community members as Investigators on all research. It has eleven research projects across 78 sites producing high impact translational co-designed research in oral health, children’s health, genomics, cardiovascular disease, lung disease and health systems reform.
Since 2012 I have secured $11.55m in funding to co-design, deliver and evaluate services with Aboriginal people including new approaches to oral health, allied health, hearing and cardiovascular disease. I am currently a CI on four grants: an Aboriginal children’s hearing health MRFF (CID), a workforce development ARC (CIH), an Australian Genomics grant about engaging Aboriginal people in Early Carrier Screening (CIA), and a fluoride varnish MRFF (CIC). Previously I was CIA on a Heart Foundation Vanguard Grant which delivered translational cardiovascular research.
Education/Academic qualification
Health Sciences, PhD, University of Sydney
Human Services, Masters, Griffith University
External positions
Adjunct Associate Professor, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia.
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Projects
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MRFF - IHRF 2019: Improving care pathways for Otitis Media in Aboriginal children (0-12): A case study approach
McMahon, C., Pellicano, L., Rambaldini, B., Gwynne, K., Harkus, S., Holt, L., Coates, H., Orr, N., Smith, A., Clague, L., Ganasekera, H. & Kong, K.
1/06/20 → 31/05/23
Project: Research
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Safe water must be free for every Australian child.
Gwynne, K., Skinner, J., Dimitropoulos, Y. & Rambaldini, B.
10/03/20 → 10/03/21
Project: Research
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Raising awareness, building trust and improving outcomes for Aboriginal women
1/01/20 → 31/05/21
Project: Research
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Research Outputs
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Aboriginal dental assistants can safely apply fluoride varnish in regional, rural and remote primary schools in New South Wales, Australia
Skinner, J., Dimitropoulos, Y., Masoe, A., Yaacoub, A., Byun, R., Rambaldini, B., Christie, V. & Gwynne, K., 1 Oct 2020, In : Australian Journal of Rural Health. 28, 5, p. 500-505 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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A school fluoride varnish program for Aboriginal children in rural New South Wales, Australia
Dimitropoulos, Y., Gwynne, K., Blinkhorn, A. & Holden, A., Apr 2020, In : Health Promotion Journal of Australia. 31, 2, p. 172-176 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Atrial fibrillation in Indigenous Australians: a multisite screening study using a single-lead ECG device in Aboriginal primary health settings
Gwynn, J., Gwynne, K., Rodrigues, R., Thompson, S., Bolton, G., Dimitropoulos, Y., Dulvari, N., Finlayson, H., Hamilton, S., Lawrence, M., MacNiven, R., Neubeck, L., Rambaldini, B., Taylor, K., Wright, D. & Freedman, B., 19 Jul 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Heart Lung and Circulation.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Community based programs to improve the oral health of Australian Indigenous adolescents: a systematic review and recommendations to guide future strategies
Gwynn, J., Skinner, J., Dimitropoulos, Y., Masoe, A., Rambaldini, B., Christie, V., Sohn, W. & Gwynne, K., 6 May 2020, In : BMC Health Services Research. 20, 1, p. 1-14 14 p., 384.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Costing the scale-up of a national primary school-based fluoride varnish program for aboriginal children using dental assistants in Australia
Skinner, J., Dimitropoulos, Y., Rambaldini, B., Calma, T., Raymond, K., Ummer-Christian, R., Orr, N. & Gwynne, K., 1 Dec 2020, In : International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17, 23, p. 1-10 10 p., 8774.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Prizes
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Australian Financial Review Inaugural Higher Education Award
Kylie Gwynne (Recipient), Kim Szerdahelyi (Recipient) & Boe Rambaldini (Recipient), 2015
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Sax Institute Research Action Award/Prize
Kylie Gwynne (Recipient), 26 Nov 2019
Prize: Other distinction
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The University of Sydney Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence
Kylie Gwynne (Recipient), Boe Rambaldini (Recipient), Vita Christie (Recipient), Jemma Chao (Recipient) & Yvonne Dimitropoulos (Recipient), 2019
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Activities
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Co-design and knowledge co-production as tools to enable precision medicine for Aboriginal Australians
Kylie Gwynne (Speaker), Boe Rambaldini (Speaker), Debbie McCowen (Speaker), Tom Calma (Speaker), Tiffany Boughtwood (Speaker), John Skinner (Speaker), Alex Brown (Speaker), J. Nunn (Speaker), Niel Orr (Speaker)5 Sep 2019 → 6 Sep 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
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The Aboriginal communities smiling again (and saving millions)
27/09/17
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research