Professor Lesley Barclay
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Professor & Head of NRUDRH |
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Research interests
Lesley Barclay (AO PhD) has just taken up the role as Professor and Director of the Northern Rivers University Department of Rural Health for Sydney University. Prior to this she was the foundation Professor of Health Services Development at Charles Darwin University and led the Graduate School for Health Practice that introduced a range of post graduate education for health professionals in the Northern Territory. Lesley is a maternal child health researcher and health system reformer whose projects have improved maternity services in remote and urban Australia and internationally. Much of her recent research has been rural, remote or indigenous focussed.
Lesley Barclay has led many over 30 competitive research projects in the last decade, and has been or is a CI on 12 funded by NHMRC or ARC in this period, leading 8 of these. In the last 10 years she has supervised 25 doctoral students, published an international prize winning book with another being published this year in the United States, written 51 refereed research based journal articles and over 15 major reports for governments.
Lesley Barclay has worked in international development for nearly 20 years with AusAID, World Bank and WHO, providing advice in primary health care, maternal infant/child health and capacity building in health worker education systems in Asia, Melanesia and the Pacific Islands. She was awarded an AO in 2004 in recognition of her contribution to professional and international development and child health.
Current national competitive grants*
2010
A study investigating the feasibility of implementinga national approach to child and family health services
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ARC Linkage Project/Shared Research Support ($0 over 3 years)
* Grants administered through the University of Sydney
International links
Indonesia. (Ministry of Health and Health Academies in Kalimantan and Makassar) AusAID and World Bank consultancies that contributed to the educations of health professionals, improved services and capacity building.
China. (Womens and Childrens Hospital in Sichuan; Second Univerity) Recently completed joint ARC Linkage grant; shared publications. Attempting to get other research funded.
Samoa. (Ministry of Health and National University) Nearly 20 years of consultancy and research funded by WHO and AusAID; this has produced numerous reports and 2 research based books that are jointly authored by myself and Samoan colleagues.
Canada. (Canadian Centre for Rural Health Research at University of British Columbia) Shared grants and research collaborations.