Associate Professor Melissa Lindeman

Melissa has full academic status with Flinders University, and was employed at the Centre for Remote Health for almost 7 years until Dec 2014. She has a background in social welfare, public policy, research and education, in areas such as child protection, aged and disability care, community programs and health and human services more broadly. She has held Senior Lecturer positions at Deakin University and Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, and was a Research Fellow at the National Ageing Research Institute. Other experience includes senior policy and program positions in the Victorian and Northern Territory governments. Melissa has extensive research and consulting experience in aged and community care, primary care service systems, and workforce development. Recent projects have focussed on assessment practice in Indigenous aged and community care, Indigenous dementia services, and development of education programs in primary health care. Her higher education teaching experience has been in the areas of public health and health promotion, health/human service systems, ageing and community care. Since 2015, Melissa has worked at Ngaanyatjatjara, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjara Women's Council, as Manager of the Domestic and Family Violence program, and is pursuing research in this area.