Catherine Turner
Professor
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work
The University of Queensland
Australia
Biography
Cathy Turner has nursing and education qualifications, clinical experience in critical care and emergency nursing and a PhD in population health. Since 1992 Cathy has been involved in the tertiary education of nurses and in 2000 Cathy joined the former School of Population Health [UQ] to teach epidemiology and coordinate the Master of Public Health Program. Concurrently her background in nursing education led her to develop and implement a new undergraduate nursing program at UQ in 2004 for which she received a UQ Excellence in Teaching Award in 2005. In this context Cathy brought together a research team with a range of expertise to focus on workforce issues within the nursing and midwifery professions and population health outcomes by establishing the Nures & Midwives e-cohort funded by the ARC & NHMRC and a range of industry partners in 2006. This longitudinal study data contributed to Health Workforce Australia reports and is now archived at the Australian Data Archive at ANU.
Research Interest
Clinical Science; Nursing.
