Associate Professor Tania Shelby-James
Principal Research Fellow
College of Medicine and Public Health
Tania is a clinical and health services researcher at Flinders University and emerging authority on conducting research in challenging areas, including rural and remote service delivery, with a commitment to ensuring high quality care for all people regardless of income or location. She is Principal Research Fellow within the College of Medicine and Public Health, where she leads a research program in capacity building and health service delivery for complex or chronic conditions. Tania has worked closely with the community mental health sector and the Australian Government to support the development, implementation and delivery of mental health support programs for people with severe and persistent mental illness. She has a strong track record in managing and evaluating multi-site national primary health projects as well as significant experience in consumer engagement and co-design methodologies.
2016 Graduate Diploma in Public Health, Flinders University
1999 Master of Public Health, Sydney University
1993 Bachelor of Applied Science, Northern Territory University
Tania leads a multi-disciplinary research team specialising in health service delivery in the primary health sector, in addition, she provides supervision to both post-graduate research and medical students and teaches clinical research skills within post-graduate courses. Tania's role leading a national workforce mentoring program has included the development of a mentoring program for mental health workers that focuses on skills building, developing and maintaining peer networks, information exchange and sharing of innovative work practices to address barriers to service delivery, particularly in remote settings.
Tania provides training and support to clinical services and briefs the Federal Government and the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) on the challenges facing mental health organisations. In addition, Tania has been commissioned to provide training for State funded mental health staff in WA and SA as well as providing training for NDIA staff on the Commonwealth mental health programs. She has provided briefing papers to the Australian Government on a range of issues affecting mental health including substance abuse. Tania has worked closely with remote Aboriginal Medical Services in central Australia, the Kimberly region of WA and Cape York to develop systems to incorporate the NDIS into their business models and building the workforce to ensure staff have the skills they need for the new roles that accompanied the change.
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