Dr Bridgette Mcnamara
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Aboriginal Health
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
Australia
Biography
Dr Bridgette McNamara is an early-career research fellow in the Aboriginal Health. Her postdoctoral research examines the determinants of health and wellbeing among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians across the life-course using total-population linked health and administrative data and large-scale cohort data. Bridgette has a PhD in Anatomy and Developmental Biology (2009) examining the morphology and pathology in the kidneys of Senegalese African and African Americans, and a Masters of Public Health (clinical epidemiology and biostatistics focus), and further biostatistics training. Her research at the Baker Institute has focused on perinatal and early child health outcomes, and on social and emotional wellbeing and physical functioning among older Aboriginal people. Bridgette is currently leading the Aboriginal child health research project Defying the Odds, investigating the impacts of family and community health and social risk factors and culturally-secure service availability on morbidity and mortality among Aboriginal children in WA in the first five years of life.
Research Interest
Aboriginal Health
Publications
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Bridgette McNamara,Type 2 diabetes in Indigenous populations: quality of intervention research over 20 years Prev Med 2011; 52(1):3–9.
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Bridgette McNamara,Early life influences on cardio-metabolic disease risk in aboriginal populations—what is the evidence? A systematic review of longitudinal and case-control studies Int J Epidemiol 2012 41(6):1661–82.
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Bridgette McNamara,Measuring psychological distress in older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Australians: a comparison of the K-10 and K-5 Australian and New Zealand journal of public health 2014, 38(6):567–573.
