Associate Professor
Fiona McDonald

Biography

• the governance of health systems (including public and environmental health);
• the governance of health organisations;
• the governance of health professionals and the health workforce; and
• the governance of health technologies.

• Health governance
• Health systems law and policy
• Rural bioethics
• Bioethics
• Regulation.

• Medical Research Council (UK) Global Challenges Research Fund (2021-2024) £1.61 million. Factors affecting childhood exposures to urban particulates. (Horwell, Covey, McDonald, Pelupessy, Dhimal, Sagala, Sofyan, Suroso, Cowie, Loh, Galea et al (McDonald, international collaborator)).
• Queensland Genomics Health Alliance (2017-2019) $480,000 Implementation of Genomics into Queensland Healthcare: ethical, legal and social implications and policy challenges (N Waddell, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, (B Bennett QUT, J Devereux, The University of Queensland) and F McDonald, et al.
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  National Health and Medical Research Council (2013-2018) $2.5 million Centre for Research Excellence in End-of-Life Care, (P Yates, G Mitchell, D. Currow, K. Eagar, H. Edwards, G. Gardner, L. Willmott, A. Bonner, R. Clark, J Tieman, (CIs), McCaffrey, Johnson, Beattie, McCarthy, Broom, White, McDonald (AIs)).
•  Canadian Institutes for Health Research Operating Grant (2011-2016) $442,066 (CD) Articulating Standards: translating the practices of standardizing health technologies (Professor J. Graham, Dalhousie University (PI), Professor R. Darnell, University of Western Ontario, Dr C. Holmes, CNRS Centre National de la Recherché Scientique, France; Dr M. Jones, ECHO: Women's Health, and Dr F. McDonald, Queensland University of Technology.
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Health Services and Policy Research (2010) $17,000 (CD) Articulating Standards and Practices of Health Regulation: A Grant Writing Workshop (J. Graham (P.I), R Darnell, C Holmes, M Jones, F McDonald, V Ozdemir, C. Stephens)
• Australia Indonesia Governance Research Partnership (2009) $61,720 Evidence-Based Decision Making to Reform Governance at the District Level: The Case of Nutritional Policies, Programs and Interventions in Bantul and Gunungkidul (F. McDonald & A. Yoganingrum (PIs), F. Purwaningrum, D. Ariani)