Dr Yvonne Hornby-Turner is a Medical Anthropologist with over 10 years’ experience in health services research and a working history in aged care.  Yvonne was awarded her PhD from Durham University, UK, in 2013, for her mixed methods research, which measured lifestyle behaviours of British South Asians as risk markers for chronic disease and explored sociocultural influences on these health behaviours.

Her current themes of research include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, primary health care, aged care, dementia prevention and best practice dementia care, and health systems and practice improvement. Her research strengths and skills include research project management and design, participatory, and action research, implementation and improvement science, and process and impact evaluation.

Yvonne has been instrumental in attracting research grants totalling around $5M, including four NHMRC project grants. Her peer-reviewed publications are largely in health services research, public health, and preventive health. Participatory and action research, Indigenous research methods, implementation and improvement science, process, impact, economic evaluation, capacity building, knowledge translation, co-development/design, and sustainability are the research methodologies and methods that underpin the projects that Yvonne manages, leads, and collaborates on.

She is a member of the Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG), the International Indigenous Dementia Research Network (IIDRN) and fellow collaborator with the Centre for Research Excellence: STRengthening systems fo InDigenous health care Equity (CRE-STRIDE). Yvonne was recently presented with the JCU Award for Excellence in recognition of her outstanding achievements in ‘reconciliation’ for the contribution and commitment she has made to Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander community-controlled health organisations and their broader community as a member of the Health Ageing Research Team.

Interests

Research

• Health Services Research, Quality Improvement, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Aged Care, Primary health care, Dementia prevention, Best practice dementia care, Healthy ageing, Preventive health, Health promotion, Improvement science, Implementation science, Research evaluation, Indigenous research methods, Participatory action research, Action research.

Experience

• 2020 to present - Research Fellow, James Cook University (Cairns)
• 2019 - Research Fellow, University of Queensland (Brisbane)
• 2017 to 2019 - Research Fellow, Menzies School of Health Research (Brisbane)
• 2018 - Research Officer, Brisbane Diamantina Health Partners/Queensland Health (Brisbane)
• 2014 to 2018 - Research Assistant/Project Manager, University of Queensland (Brisbane)

Research Disciplines

• Nursing (4205)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing (4504)
• Health services and systems (4203)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Provision of health and support services (2003)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health (2103)
• Public health (2004)

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

• Cunningham F, Murphy M, Ward G, Fagan R, Arley B, Hornby-Turner Y and d'Abbs P (2022) Impact of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander brief intervention training program on health staff participants' own health behaviours: smoking, nutrition and physical activity. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 33 (S1). pp. 235-245
• Peel N, Hornby-Turner Y, Osborne S, Henderson A, Hubbard R and Gray L (2021) Implementation and evaluation of a standardized nurse‐administered assessment of functional and psychosocial issues for patients in acute care. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 18 (3). pp. 161-169
• Peel N, Hornby-Turner Y, Henderson A, Hubbard R and Gray L (2019) Prevalence and impact of functional and psychosocial problems in hospitalized adults: a prospective ochort study. The Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 20 (10). pp. 1294-1299
• Gray L, Beattie E, Boscart V, Henderson A, Hornby-Turner Y, Hubbard R and Peel N (2018) Development and testing of the interRAI acute care: a atandardized assessment administered by nurses for patients admitted to acute care. Health Services Insights, 11. pp. 1-7
• Hornby-Turner Y, Peel N and Hubbard R (2017) Health assets in older age: a systematic review. BMJ Open, 7.
• Hornby-Turner Y, Hampshire K and Pollard T (2014) A comparison of physical activity and sedentary behaviour in 9-11 year old British Pakistani and White British girls: a mixed methods study. International. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 11.
• Pollard T, Hornby-Turner Y, Ghurbhurrun A and Ridgers N (2012) Differences between 9-11 year old British Pakistani and White British girls in physical activity and behavior during school recess. BMC Public Health, 12.
• Henderson E, Jones C, Hornby-Turner Y and Pollard T (2011) Adiposity and blood pressure in 7- to 11-year-old children: comparison of British Pakistani and white British children, and of British Pakistani children of migrant and British-born mothers. American Journal of Human Biology, 23 (5). pp. 710-716

Other research outputs

• Hornby-Turner Y, Russell S, Quigley R, Matthews V, Larkins S, Hayman N, Lakhan P, Flicker L, Smith K, McKeown D, Cadet-James D, Cass A, Garvey G, LoGiudice D, Miller G and Strivens E (2023) Safeguarding against Dementia in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities through the Optimisation of Primary Health Care: A Project Protocol. Methods and Protocols, 6 (5).

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