Professor Pat Dudgeon FAPS
Pat is from the Bardi people of the Kimberly area in Western Australia. She is a Professor and Poche Research Fellow at the School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Western Australia. Her area of research includes Indigenous social and emotional wellbeing, and suicide prevention. Pat is the Director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project and the Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention. She is also the lead chief investigator of a national research project, Generating Indigenous Patient-centred, Clinically and Culturally Capable Models of Mental Health Care. The project aims to develop approaches to Indigenous mental health services that foster and promote cultural values and strengths, as well as empower those who use the services.
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