Dr Amy Marshall

Amy is a non-Indigenous Senior Research Fellow in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Public Health Research Team. Her research is focusing on co-designing culturally safe solutions to identified healthcare priorities with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and taking a decolonising approach to implementation within healthcare systems.

Her background is in Sociology and health systems research, with a focus on the paradigm shift from disease and diagnosis-centred care to holistic person-centred care, particularly for marginalised and under-represented groups. Healthcare services and systems have a lot of power, and though that power is more often used in ways that end up perpetuating trauma and disadvantage, it can also have profoundly empowering and supportive effects when done right. Changing the way the healthcare system uses that power continues to drive her work. Her recent research includes co-designing solutions to fragmented care with older people, implementing change within the aged care and healthcare sectors, and understanding system and healthcare responses to children and young people with disability and women with disability who experience violence.