Veronica completed her PhD advised by Prof Alan Clough with a focus on evaluation of programs designed to reduce substance misuse demand and harms in remote Indigenous community settings after working on the 'Cape York Cannabis Project' (NHMRC 601002). She is also a full-time science teacher at Carinity Education Shalom and with a passion for mental health outreach and young people's wellbeing. While enrolled in her PhD she was fortunate enough to work on projects that explored many facets of the health system in North Queensland: health worker recognition (with A/Prof Steph Topp); service needs with respect to Emergency Examination Authorities (Prof Alan Clough); upskilling teachers to meet the needs of high mental health load populations (SUN Project, Youth Empowered Towards Independence, Cairns); suicide prevention strategies for ex-ADF personnel (Operation Compass, Townsville) among several smaller evaluations and roles. Veronica continues to consult for the SUN project and is an investigator on the Skills for Life Project (Testing for scale up: An Indigenous social and emotional learning program, led by Prof Janya McCalman/ARC: LP21030132).

Teaching

• TM5575: Substance Misuse Prevention (Level 5; CNS)
• TM5578: Emerging Public Health Threats: Navigating Systems and Responses (Level 5; TSV)

Research Disciplines

• Health services and systems (4203)
• Clinical sciences (3202)
• Public health (4206)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health (2103)
• Public health (2004)
• Evaluation of health and support services (2002)

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Journal Articles

• Clough A, Evans A, Graham V, Catterall J, Lakeman R, Gilroy J, Pratt G, Petrucci J, Orda U, Sehdev R, Thornton N, Das S, Yearsley G and Stone R (in press) Emergency examination authorities in Queensland, Australia. Emergency Medicine Australasia,
• McCalman J, Caelli N, Travers H, Graham V and Hunter E (2023) Towards best practice during COVID-19: A responsive and relational program with remote schools to enhance the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. School Psychology International, 44 (2). pp. 214-235
• Topp S, Tully J, Cummins R, Graham V, Yashadhana A, Elliott L and Taylor S (2022) Rhetoric, reality and racism: the governance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers in a state government health service in Australia. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 11 (12). pp. 2951-2963
• Topp S, Tully J, Cummins R, Graham V, Yashadhana A, Elliott L and Taylor S (2022) Building patient trust in health systems: a qualitative study of facework in the context of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker role in Queensland, Australia. Social Science and Medicine, 302.
• Topp S, Tully J, Cummins R, Graham V, Yashadhana A, Elliott L and Taylor S (2021) Unique knowledge, unique skills, unique role: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers in Queensland, Australia. BMJ Global Health, 6.
• Graham V and Clough A (2019) “Need Everyone Helping to Keep Off Because Everyone Helping to Keep On” – reducing harms from cannabis use in remote Indigenous Australian communities involves more than just users. Substance Use & Misuse, 52 (5). pp. 699-712
• Graham V and Clough A (2018) Cannabis use among remote Indigenous Australians: opportunities to support change identified in two waves of sampling. Frontiers in Public Health, 6.
• Graham V, Campbell S, West C and Clough A (2017) Substance misuse intervention research in remote Indigenous Australian communities since the NHMRC 'Roadmap'. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 41 (4). pp. 424-431

Other research outputs

• Clough A, Evans A, Grant K, Graham V, Catterall J, Lakeman R, Gilroy J, Pratt G, Petrucci J and Stone R (2022) Recent amendments to Queensland legislation make mental health presentations to hospital emergency departments more difficult to scrutinise. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 34 (1). pp. 130-133
• Clough A, Jacups S, Robertson J, Rogerson B and Graham V (2012) Listening to what Indigenous people in remote communities say about alcohol restrictions and cannabis use: "Good thing that the alcohol's gone, but the gunja has kept going". Medical Journal of Australia, 197 (5). p. 275
• Bohanna I, Graham V, Robertson J, Rogerson B, Genn R, Demarchi C, O'Brien J and Clough A (2011) High prevalence of cannabis use, mental health impacts, and potential intervention strategies: data from the Cape York cannabis project. Drug and Alcohol Review, 30 (S1). pp. 13-13

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Current

• Involuntary treatment of people experiencing mental health crisis in the community: A study of the 'least restrictive way' doctrine in Queensland mental health legislation (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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