Malcolm McDonald MBBS PhD FRACP FRCPA is a specialist physician, educator and researcher. He has longstanding involvement in the health of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Island people in the Northern Territory and Far North Queensland. He also has >40 years experience as a clinical teacher. Over his career has worked in city-based university teaching hospitals, rural health centres and remote settings in Australia, USA, East Africa, Indonesia, PNG and the Southwest Pacific.

Research Disciplines

• Health services and systems (4203)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing (4504)

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Journal Articles

• Chisholm R, Sonenberg N, Lacey J, McDonald M, Pandey M, Davies M, Tong S, McVernon J and Geard N (2020) Epidemiological consequences of enduring strain-specific immunity requiring repeated episodes of infection. PLoS Computational Biology, 16 (6), Article: e1007182, DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007182.
• Lydeamore M, Campbell P, Price D, Wu Y, Marcato A, Cuningham W, Carapetis J, Andrews R, McDonald M, McVernon J, Tong S and McCaw J (2020) Estimation of the force of infection and infectious period of skin sores in remote Australian communities using interval-censored data. PLoS Computational Biology, 16 (10), Article: e1007838, DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007838.
• Merone L, McDermott R, Mein J, Clarke P and McDonald M (2020) Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in minority Indigenous populations: a systematic review. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 29 (9), pp. 1278-1291, DOI:10.1016/j.hlc.2019.06.720.
• Ruben B, Naylor S and McDonald M (2020) Value and cultural voice in Australian Aboriginal textiles. Textile: Cloth and Culture, 18 (4), pp. 451-464, DOI:10.1080/14759756.2020.1767494.
• Campbell S, Tracey E, Fagan R, Pearson K, Thompson F, McDermott R and McDonald M (2019) Childhood infection, antibiotic exposure and subsequent metabolic risk in adolescent and young adult Aboriginal Australians: practical implications. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 25 (6), pp. 555-563, DOI:10.1071/PY18110.
• Hofer A and McDonald M (2019) Continuity of care: why it matters and what we can do. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 25 (3), pp. 214-218, DOI:10.1071/PY19041.
• 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), DOI:10.1186/s12884-018-1711-7.
• 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, DOI:10.1071/PY18006.
• 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, DOI:10.1002/hpja.18.
• 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, DOI:10.1111/ajr.12430.
• 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, DOI:10.1111/ajr.12336.

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, pp. 213-222

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 26+ research outputs authored by Prof Malcolm McDonald from 2012 onwards.

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Current

• Drawing the threads together: Aboriginal screen-printed textiles (PhD , Primary Advisor)

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