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Doctor of Philosophy, Medical Anthropology (University of Queensland)
Mark is a critical social scientist who specialises in health inequality. His work is informed by a concern for the socio-political structures which surround health. He applies this lens in a range of cross-cultural circumstances as well as a range of health problems. He has worked extensively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities as well as communities with a refugee background. He has particular expertise in the social determinants of health and wellbeing and in the role of human service and health professionals in addressing those determinants. Research Interests- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
- Refugee and migrant health
- Qualitative social health research
- Role of social work and human services in health promotion
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Mark has conducted numerous consultancies for both government and non-government organisation in the area of evaluation, program design and professional training. He has also undertaken significant research funded through the Australian Research Council in the area of refugee settlement. His research and service in the area if Indigenous health includes work for the Lowitja Institute in the area of Indigenous health workforce, and also includes a long established partnership with the Cherbourg community in supporting QUT student placements which meet the needs of the community. Mark also supervises a large number of higher degree research students involved in practical areas of health and social care. This research encompasses a broad spectrum of practitioner issues including health promotion practice, disability practice, community development practice and is based on both local, national and international projects.
- Brough M, (2013) Toward cultural epidemiology: Beyond epistemological hegemony. In J Dixon, C Banwell & S Ulijaszek, When culture impacts health: Global lessons for effective health research, Academic Press, pp. 33-42.
- Mcphail-Bell K, Fredericks B, Brough M, (2013) Beyond the accolades: a postcolonial critique of the foundations of the Ottawa Charter, Global Health Promotion, 20 (2), pp. 22-29.
- Brough M, Wagner I, Farrell L, (2013) Review of Australian health related social work research 1990-2009, Australian Social Work, 66 (4), pp. 528-539.
- Bond C, Brough M, Spurling G, Hayman N, (2012) 'It had to be my choice': Indigenous smoking cessation and negotiations of risk, resistance and resilience, Health, Risk and Society, 14 (6), pp. 565-581.
- Lenette C, Brough M, Cox L, (2013) Everyday resilience: Narratives of single refugee women with children, Qualitative Social Work, 12 (5), pp. 637-653.
- Brough M, Schweitzer R, Shakespeare-Finch J, Vromans L, King J, (2013) Unpacking the micro-macro nexus: Narratives of suffering and hope among refugees from Burma recently settled in Australia, Journal of Refugee Studies, 26 (2), pp. 207-225.
- Schweitzer R, Brough M, Vromans L, Asic-Kobe M, (2011) Mental health of newly arrived Burmese refugees in Australia: Contributions of pre-migration and post-migration experience, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 45 (4), pp. 299-307.
- Brough M, Bond C, (2009) Little theory, big plans: Social capital and community building in Aboriginal Australia. In G Woolcock & L Manderson, Social Capital and Social Justice: Critical Australian Perspectives, Charles Darwin University Press, pp. 245-258.
- Brough M, Henderson G, Foster R, Douglas H, (2007) Social Capital and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health - Problems and Possibilities, Beyond Bandaids: Exploring the Underlying Social Determinants of Aboriginal Health, pp. 191-207.
- Bond C, Brough M, (2007) The Meaning of Culture within Public Health Practice - Implications for the Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Beyond Bandaids: Exploring the Underlying Social Determinants of Aboriginal Health., pp. 229-238.
- Title
- Developing Best Practice for Settlement Services for Refugee Women-at-Risk
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- 78270885
- Start year
- 2014
- Keywords
- Refugee Women; Health And Wellbeing; Settlement
- A Five Year Longitudinal Study of Wellbeing in Resettlement amongst Humanitarian Migrants from Burma (2014)
- The Knowledge of Doing: Exploring the Knowledge of Support to Older People with an Intellectual Disability (2014)
- "Talking with lips" : Settlement, transnationalism and identity of Karen people from Burma living in Brisbane, Australia (2013)
- The Institutional Limits To, And Possibility Of, Understanding Young People Diagnosed With 'Mental Disorders', Within Inclusive Teacher-Student Relationships (2013)
- Diagnosed Artist: What is the understanding of 'artist' held by a person with a mental illness? (2011)
- Narratives of complexity: an ethnographic exploration of resilience and wellbeing among single refugee women in Brisbane (2011)
- Weaving Yarns: The Lived Experience of Indigenous Australians with Adult-Onset Disability in Brisbane (2010)
- 'Food to go round' : negotiating healthy eating for management and prevention of type 2 diabetes among some urban indigenous Australians (2006)
- Acumen, Ambivalence and Ambiguity: Stories of women with asthma (2005)
- Cultural strengths and social needs of Aboriginal women with cancer : take away the cancer but leave me whole (2005)