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 and Discipline Lead for Injury Studies in the College of Medicine and Public Health. 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 - 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: 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.
2017: NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship
2013: Churchill Fellowship
Research Grants
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. 2024. MRFF, ($997,153).
2022. Transforming Injury for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children through Innovative Knowledge Gain and Co-designed Intervention. NHMRC, ($642,650).
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. The Patient Journey for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples with a Road Traffic Injury. Lifetime Support Authority, ($424,140).
2021. Implementing holistic burn care through a culturally safe integrated model. NHMRC RART, ($2,410,958).
2021. Research with the Riverland Academy of Clinical Excellence, ($400,000).
2021. The Australian Traumatic Brain Injury National Data (ATBIND) Project. MRFF, ($365,995).
2021. Yarning Up on Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Expenditure. CRE Research Excellence in Aboriginal Child and Adolescent Health ($17,628).
2020. Understanding Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure Impacts on Aboriginal Families in Australia, Flinders Health and Medical Research Council Kickstart Grant, ($21,650).
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.
South Australian Public Health Council
Indigenous Engineering Group Executive (Engineers Australia)
Human Genetics Society of Australasia (HGSA) Indigenous Genomics Steering Committee
Advisory Groups
Sex and Gender Policies in Medical Research
Nasal Oxygen Therapy After Cardiac Surgery
Safer Pathway Project
Memberships
Public Health Association Australia
Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education
- 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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