Associate Professor Courtney Ryder
Associate Professor in Public Health, Indigenous Health and Matthew Flinders Fellow
College of Medicine and Public Health
Associate Professor Courtney Ryder is an Aboriginal ECR injury epidemiologist, Matthew Flinders Fellow, Discipline Lead for Injury Studies in the College of Medicine and Public Health and Co-Director of the Health Equity Impact Program for the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute. Her research is leading new ways of working with Indigenous Data through knowledge interface methodology and Indigenous Data sovereignty to change the deficit discourse surrounding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health statistics. Ryder earned her BScBEng(Biomed)(Hons) in 2006 from Flinders University and her PhD from UNSW (2021): ‘Discovering the Interwoven Health Inequities in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children with an Acute Burns Injury. The expertise she built during this time lead her to secure a 2023 NHMRC Investigator grant to transform injury for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children through innovative knowledge gain and co-designed intervention.
Ryder returned to Flinders in 2020 as a Senior Lecturer in Public Health, where she made a substantial contribution to scholarship as the inaugural Public Health Teaching Program Director. With over a decade’s experience in higher education, Ryder is viewed as a leader in transforming student learning, her work has been recognised nationally and internationally, through keynote addresses, congress papers, case studies, teaching innovation and scholarship awards and a Churchill Fellowship.
Ryder’s high standing in the academic community is evident through being a:
- Board Director - Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia
- Member - South Australian Public Health Council
- Member - Department of Health and Wellbeing Human Research Ethics Committee
- Member - MJD Foundation Research Advisory Committee
- Editor Board - Injury Prevention and Children Australia
Ryder is a Research Fellow with The George Institute for Global Health, and Senior Lecturer at the School of Population Health UNSW. Ryder also LOVES running, competing at SAAL!
Bachelor of Science Bachelor of Engineering (Biomedical)(Honours) 2006
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) 2021
Honours and Awards
2024: College of Medicine and Public Health Early VPED Award for Fearless Leadership
2024: Matthew Flinders Fellow
2023: Aboriginal Scholarship Award, Public Health Association of South Australia
2022: Vice-Chancellor's Early Career Research Award
2022: College of Medicine and Public Health Early Career Research Award
2022: College of Medicine and Public Health Reconciliation Award
2020: College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University Teaching Innovations and Scholarship Award.
Research Grants (Category 1, *CIA)
2024. IMPACT - Indigenous Measures for Protecting and Addressing Critical Trauma. MRFF ($999.181.20)*
2024. SMART-PH - Digitising Information for Practice in Public Health. MRFF NCRI ($2,999,842.28)*
2024. Targeting Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Expenditure through Citizen Sciences with Aboriginal Communities. MRFF, ($997,153)*
2023. Transforming Injury for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children through Innovative Knowledge Gain and Co-designed Intervention. NHMRC, ($642,650)*
2024. Connecting aged care, health care and social services systems to support older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to live their best lives. MRFF. ($1,497,743.00).
2022. Knowledge interface co-design of a diabetes and metabolic syndrome intervention with and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living on Ngarrindjeri country. MRFF, ($756,623)*
2022. PATHWAY: Pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Hearing Health: The PATHWAY Project. NHMRC. ($1,155,685.70).
2021. Implementing holistic burn care through a culturally safe integrated model. NHMRC RART, ($2,410,958).
2021. The Australian Traumatic Brain Injury National Data (ATBIND) Project. MRFF, ($365,995).
2017. Preventing Falls in Older Aboriginal People: The Ironbark Trial, NHMRC, ($3,000,000).
2017. Quality of life, associated psychological and economic family impacts, and trajectory of recovery in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander paediatric burns patients. NHMRC, ($86,117)*
Discipline Lead Injury & Trauma, Public Health Discipline Group, College of Medicine and Public Health.
Co-lead (with Prof James Smith), Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute - Health Equity Impact Program.
Board Director - Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia
Member - South Australian Public Health Council
Member - Department of Health and Wellbeing Human Research Ethics Committee
Member - MJD Foundation Research Advisory Committee
Editor Board - Injury Prevention and Children Australia
Memberships
Public Health Association Australia
- Child/Youth health
- Children/Youth
- Community/Public health
- Data mining
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Education - Aboriginal
- Epidemiology
- Head injuries
- Injury
- Public health
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
- Big Data
- Clinical Quality Indicators
- Clinical Registeries
- Indigenous Data Sovereignty
- Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Expenditure
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