Yvonne Hornby-Turner

Dr Yvonne Hornby-Turner is a Medical Anthropologist with over 10 years’ experience in health services research and a working history in aged care. Yvonne was awarded her PhD from Durham University, UK, in 2013, for her mixed methods research, which measured lifestyle behaviours of British South Asians as risk markers for chronic disease and explored sociocultural influences on these health behaviours.

Her current themes of research include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, primary health care, aged care, dementia prevention and best practice dementia care, and health systems and practice improvement. Her research strengths and skills include research project management and design, participatory, and action research, implementation and improvement science, and process and impact evaluation.

Yvonne has been instrumental in attracting research grants totalling around $5M, including four NHMRC project grants. Her peer-reviewed publications are largely in health services research, public health, and preventive health. Participatory and action research, Indigenous research methods, implementation and improvement science, process, impact, economic evaluation, capacity building, knowledge translation, co-development/design, and sustainability are the research methodologies and methods that underpin the projects that Yvonne manages, leads, and collaborates on.

She is a member of the Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG), the International Indigenous Dementia Research Network (IIDRN) and fellow collaborator with the Centre for Research Excellence: STRengthening systems fo InDigenous health care Equity (CRE-STRIDE). Yvonne was recently presented with the JCU Award for Excellence in recognition of her outstanding achievements in ‘reconciliation’ for the contribution and commitment she has made to Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander community-controlled health organisations and their broader community as a member of the Health Ageing Research Team.