Malcolm McDonald MBBS PhD FRACP FRCPA has just celebrated 50 years 'in the trade'. He is a specialist physician, educator and researcher with longstanding involvement in the health of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Island people in the Northern Territory and Far North Queensland. He has more than 40 years experience as a clinical teacher and supervisor. Over his career has worked in large Australian university teaching centres, rural health services and remote communities. He has also worked as a physician in the USA and East Africa; then with AusAID in Indonesia, PNG and the Southwest Pacific.

Research Disciplines

• Health services and systems (4203)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing (4504)
• Public health (4206)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health (2103)
• Public health (2004)
• Evaluation of health and support services (2002)

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Journal Articles

• Bird K, Bohanna I, McDonald M, Wapau H, Blanco L, Cullen J, McLucas J, Forbes S, Vievers A, Wason A, Strivens E and Barker R (in press) A good life for people living with disability: the story from Far North Queensland. Disability and Rehabilitation,
• Doran J, Canty D, Dempsey K, Cass A, Kangaharan N, Remenyi B, Brunsdon G, McDonald M, Heal C, Wang Z, Royse C, Royse A, Mein J, Gray N, Bennetts J, Baker R, Stewart M, Sutcliffe S, Reeves B, Doran U, Rankine P, Fejo R, Heenan E, Jalota R, Ilton M, Roberts-Thomson R, King J, Wyber R, Doran J, Webster A and Hanson J (2023) Surgery for rheumatic heart disease in the Northern Territory, Australia, 1997-2016: what have we gained? BMJ Global Health, 8.
• Lacey J, Marcato A, Chisholm R, Campbell P, Zachreson C, Price D, James T, Morris J, Gorrie C, McDonald M, Bowen A, Giffard P, Holt D, Currie B, Carapetis J, Andrews R, Davies M, Geard N, McVernon J and Tong S (2023) Evaluating the role of asymptomatic throat carriage of Streptococcus pyogenes in impetigo transmission in remote Aboriginal communities in Northern Territory, Australia: a retrospective genomic analysis. The Lancet Microbe, 4 (7). pp. e524-e533
• Thompson F, Russell S, Quigley R, McDonald M, Sagigi B, Taylor S, Campbell S, Schmidt B, Esterman A, Harriss L, Miller G, Mills P, Strivens E, McDermott R, and (2023) Primary care biomarkers and dementia in people of the Torres Strait, Australia: extended data analysis. Frontiers in Dementia, 2.
• Topp S, Thompson F, Johnston K, Smith D, Edelman A, Whittaker M, Rouen C, Moodley N, McDonald M, Barker R and Larkins S (2023) Democratising data to address health system inequities in Australia. BMJ Global Health, 8.
• Bohanna I, Harriss L, McDonald M, Cullen J, Strivens E, Bird K, Blanco L, Thompson F, Wapau H, Wason A and Barker R (2022) A systematic review of disability, rehabilitation and lifestyle services in rural and remote Australia through the lens of the people-centred health care. Disability and Rehabilitation, 44 (20). pp. 6107-6118
• Hempenstall A, Pilot P, McDonald M, Smith S and Hanson J (2022) Community antibiotic management of skin infections in the Torres Strait. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 29 (1). pp. 91-98
• Miller K, Van Beneden C, McDonald M, Hla T, Wong W, Pedgrift H, Kaslow D, Cherian T, Carapetis J, Scheel A, Seale A, Bowen A, Moore H, Lamagni T and Rodriguez-Iturbe B (2022) Standardization of Epidemiological Surveillance of Acute Poststreptococcal Glomerulonephritis. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 9 (Supplement 1). pp. S57-S64
• Thompson F, Russell S, Quigley R, Sagigi B, Taylor S, McDonald M, Campbell S, Esterman A, Harriss L, Miller G, Strivens E and McDermott R (2022) Potentially preventable dementia in a First Nations population in the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area of North Queensland, Australia: A cross sectional analysis using population attributable fractions. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 26.
• Wapau H, Kris E, Roeder L and McDonald M (2022) Community-driven health research in the Torres Strait. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 28 (4). pp. 289-295
• Rubena B, McDonald M and Naylor S (2021) Australian Aboriginal textiles: value beyond fashion. Textile: Cloth and Culture, 20 (1). pp. 2-22
• Chisholm R, Sonenberg N, Lacey J, McDonald M, Pandey M, Davies M, Tong S, McVernon J and Geard N (2020) Epidemiological consequences of enduring strain-specific immunity requiring repeated episodes of infection. PLoS Computational Biology, 16 (6).

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 39+ research outputs authored by Prof Malcolm McDonald from 2012 onwards.

Current and recent Research Funding to JCU is shown by funding source and project.

These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Completed

• Drawing the threads together: Aboriginal screen-printed textiles (2022, PhD , Primary Advisor)

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