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Biography
Katie is an Associate Professor with Yardhura Walani, the National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research, the Australian National University. She works within the Mayi Kuwayu Study team, conducting research across Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community- and policy-identified priority areas, including discrimination and racism, SEWB, and family and community safety. She employs community-engaged, mixed-methods, and strength-based approaches.
Qualifications
BA (Psych & Global Health); MPhil (Epidemiology); PhD (Epidemiology)
Research Interests
- Health equity
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing
- Social and cultural determinants of health
- Social epidemiology
- Longitudinal studies
Research student supervision
- Registered to supervise
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Footprints in time: individual, social, and environmental factors and never-use of e-cigarettes among Indigenous adolescents
Rickard, E., Heris, C., Barrett, E. M., de Waard, A., Thurber, K. A., Brinckley, M. M., Cohen, R., Kennedy, M., Lyons, L., O’Brien, M., Calma, T. & Maddox, R., Jun 2025, In: Health Promotion International. 40, 3, 13 p., daaf024.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children: Adolescent never smoking and associations with individual, social, and environmental factors
De Waard, A., Heris, C., Barrett, E. M., Rickard, E., Cohen, R., Brinckley, M. M., Kennedy, M., Calma, T., Lyons, L., O'Brien, M., Thurber, K. A. & Maddox, R., Apr 2025, In: Health Promotion International. 40, 2, 13 p., daaf022.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Relationship of tobacco smoking to cause-specific mortality: contemporary estimates from Australia
Joshy, G., Soga, K., Thurber, K. A., Egger, S., Weber, M. F., Sarich, P., Welsh, J., Korda, R. J., Yazidjoglou, A., Nguyen, M. T. H., Paige, E., Gourley, M., Canfell, K. & Banks, E., Dec 2025, In: BMC Medicine. 23, 1, 14 p., 115.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Rights-seeking, racism, and retribution
Wilkes, B., Whop, L. J., Maddox, R., Thurber, K. A., McKay, C. D., Schultz, C., McGrath, C., Evans, O., Pengilly, J., Sedgwick, M., Cornforth, F. & Lovett, R., Feb 2025, In: The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific. 55, 101481.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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Estimating population coverage of Tackling Indigenous Smoking teams, a placed-based health intervention in Australia
Barrett, E. M., Thurber, K. A., Learnihan, V., Lovett, R., Thandrayen, J., Thomas, D. P., Colonna, E., Banks, E. & Maddox, R., Feb 2023, In: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 47, 1, 6 p., 100012.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus)
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Monitoring racism prevalence research project
McKay, C. (PI), Bourke, S. (CoI), Colonna, E. (CoI), Harrap, B. (CoI), Lovett, R. (CoI), Sedgwick, M. (CoI), Thurber, K. (CoI) & Wilkes, B. (CoI)
4/11/25 → 3/11/28
Project: Research
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Counting what counts: using a national cohort study to develop, validate and apply an Indigenous Quality of Wellbeing Utility Index and quantifying key determinants of health
Lovett, R. (PI), Banks, E. (CoI), Bourke, S. (CoI), Brown, A. (CoI), Chamberlain, C. (CoI), Chen, G. (CoI), Eades, S. (CoI), Matthews, V. (CoI), Thurber, K. (CoI) & de Graaff, B. (CoI)
1/07/24 → 30/06/29
Project: Research
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Tackling Indigenous Smoking - National Program Evaluation and Regional Grants Impact and Outcomes Assessment (Health 22-23/E22-83847)
Maddox, R. (PI), Chamberlain, C. (CoI), Kennedy, M. (CoI), Lovett, R. (CoI), Thurber, K. (CoI) & Whop, L. (CoI)
1/07/22 → 31/05/27
Project: Research
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Developing Baseline Data on Cultural Determinants of Health for Preventive Health SA (Mayi Kuwayu Study Data)
Lovett, R. (PI), Brinckley, M.-M. (CoI), Colonna, E. (CoI), Harrap, B. (CoI), Hasan, M. (CoI), McKay, C. (CoI), Riley, T. (CoI) & Thurber, K. (CoI)
17/06/25 → 28/11/25
Project: Research
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Assessment of mental health and wellbeing needs during the Voice to Parliament Referendum - Mayi Kuwayu Study
Thurber, K. (PI), Bourke, S. (CoI), Brinckley, M.-M. (CoI), Chapman, J. (CoI), Hasan, M. (CoI), Hunt, N. (CoI), Lovett, R. (CoI), Nichols, K. (CoI), Sedgwick, M. (CoI), Thandrayen, J. (CoI) & Wilkes, B. (CoI)
15/03/23 → 30/06/25
Project: Research