Malcolm McDonald MBBS PhD FRACP FRCPA is a specialist outreach physician and researcher with a longstanding involvement in Indigenous health in the Northern Territory and Far North Queensland. He also has >40 years experience as a clinical teacher. Over this time he has worked in city-based university teaching hospitals, rural health centres and remote settings in Australia, East Africa and the South Pacific.

Research Disciplines

• Public Health and Health Services (1117)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Indigenous Health (9203)
• Health and Support Services (9202)
• Clinical Health (9201)

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Journal Articles

• Campbell S, McCalman J, Redman-MacLaren M, Canuto K, Vine K, Sewter J and McDonald M (2018) Implementing the Baby One Program: a qualitative evaluation of family-centred child health promotion in remote Australian Aboriginal communities. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 18 (73).
• Harriss L, Kyle M, Connolly K, Murgha E, Bulmer M, Miller D, Munn P, Neal P, Pearson K, Walsh M, Campbell S, Berger M, McDermott R and McDonald M (2018) Screening for depression in young Indigenous people: building on a unique community initiative. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 24 (4). pp. 343-349
• Nichols N, McFarlane K, Gibson P, Millard F, Packer A and McDonald M (2018) Skills, systems and supports: an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service (Apunipima) approach to building health promotion evaluation capacity of staff. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 29 (1). pp. 18-22
• Wapau H, Jans D, Hapea E, Mein J, Curnow V and McDonald M (2018) Coming to town: reaching agreement on a thorny issue. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 26 (6). pp. 416-421
• McDonald M and Lawson K (2017) Doing it hard in the bush: aligning what gets measured with what matters. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 25. pp. 246-251
• Tracey E, McDermott R and McDonald M (2016) Do worms protect against the metabolic syndrome? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 120. pp. 209-220
• Bowen A, Tong S, Andrews R, O'Meara I, McDonald M, Chatfield M, Currie B and Carapetis J (2014) Short-course oral co-trimoxazole versus intramuscular benzathine benzylpenicillin for impetigo in a highly endemic region: an open-label, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial. Lancet, 384 (9960). pp. 2132-2140
• Hare K, Singleton R, Grimwood K, Valery P, Cheng A, Morris P, Leach A, Smith-Vaughan H, Chatfield M, Redding G, Reasonover A, McCallum G, Chikoyak L, McDonald M, Brown N, Torzillo P and Chang A (2013) Longitudinal nasopharyngeal carriage and antibiotic resistance of respiratory bacteria in indigenous Australian and Alaska native children with bronchiectasis. PLoS ONE, 8 (8). pp. 1-9
• Noonan S, Zurynski Y, Currie B, McDonald M, Wheaton G, Nissen M, Curtis N, Isaacs D, Richmond P, Ramsay J, Elliott E and Carapetis J (2013) A national prospective surveillance study of acute rheumatic fever in Australian children. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 32 (1). pp. e26-e32
• Ralph A, Fittock M, Schultz R, Thompson D, Dowden M, Clemens T, Parnaby M, Clark M, McDonald M, Edwards K, Carapetis J and Bailie R (2013) Improvement in rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease management and prevention using a health centre-based continuous quality improvement approach. BMC Health Services Research, 13. pp. 1-13
• Vos L, Baer R and McDonald M (2013) Addressing chronic kidney disease in Far North Queensland: gains and opportunities. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 21 (6). pp. 313-318

Book Chapters

• McDonald M (in press) Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease. In: National Guide to a Preventive Health Assessment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, 3rd edition. Royal Australian College of Physicians, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 19+ research outputs authored by Prof Malcolm McDonald from 2012 onwards.

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Current

• Textile Collaborations in remote Indigenous Communities in Northern Australia (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Building a Simulation Model to Improve Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction and Treatment for Indigenous Australians (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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