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Cathy has research interests in population health, epidemiology and longitudinal cohort studies. Professor Turner has nursing and education qualifications, clinical experience in critical care and emergency nursing and a PhD in population health. Over the last sixteen years she has been involved in the tertiary education of nurses. In 2000 she joined the School of Population Health [UQ] and has taught epidemiology within the Master of Public Health Program and to undergraduates from a range of disciplines. Within the past seven years, Professor Turner has established a research profile in injury epidemiology and quantifying the prevalence and incidence of population health outcomes using epidemiological research methods. Concurrently her background in nursing education led her to develop and implement a new undergraduate nursing program at the University in 2004 for which she received a UQ Excellence in Teaching Award in 2005. In 2004 Prof Turner took on the role of Coordinator of Research & Research Higher Degrees in the newly established School of Nursing. It is in this context that she has brought together a research team with a range of expertise to focus on recruitment and retention issues within the current and future nursing and midwifery professions and population health outcomes by establishing the Nurses & Midwives e-cohort which is funded by the Australian Research Council and a range of industry partners. In 2006 Prof Turner received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to spend several months as an Honorary Research Fellow at Harvard University [Medical School] learning about longitudinal study methods from the Nurses' Health Study research group. Prof Turner has also been awarded an NHMRC Career Development Award [2007-2011] for her research on the e-cohort study.
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