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Professor Robert Bush is the current Director of the Healthy Communities Research Centre in the Faculty of Health Sciences at The University of Queensland, Australia. He is a Social and Behavioural Scientist in relation to medicine with an extensive career in both the university and public sectors in Australia and other countries. His research appointments have been as Duty Director and then Director of the Australian Research Council’s Key Centre of Education and Training on Addiction at Flinders University in the latter part of the 1990s, then Director of the Centre for Primary Health Care at the University of Queensland. Between 1999 and 2002, he was appointed as Executive Director and Acting Deputy Director General in The Department of Premier and Cabinet in Queensland. In this position he had responsibility for the establishment of the Community Engagement Division within The Department of Premier and Cabinet and the engagement strategy across the Queensland Public Service. He has been a member of the NHMRC Grants Committees and been appointed to several government committees and reviews at State and Commonwealth levels. He is currently appointed to the Queensland Health Promotion Council and the Queensland Department of Community Social Inclusion External Advisory Group.
Professor Bush has published on social health issues in mental health, community health, adolescence health, alcohol and drugs, general practice and primary care and in community capacity building and engagement. He has worked with a wide variety of groups including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples on program development and evaluation.
Professor Bush has been awarded 49 competitive grants (ARC, NHMRC and other bodies) and has more than 135 published journal papers, refereed monographs, and reports for government in Australia and internationally.
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