END RHD Program Manager
MIM
Catherine is Program Manager across the END RHD national advocacy alliance and the END RHD Centre of Research Excellence. The program of work combines research excellence with systemic advocacy and focuses on ending rheumatic heart disease in Australia. Catherine holds a Master of International Management and is an experienced program manager with a background in research, education, policy and not-for-profit management.
Catherine’s previous experience includes operational management and delivery of education and training projects with Rheumatic Heart Disease Australia and the implementation of a large-scale project to accelerate the literacy and educational outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the Northern Territory. In these roles and her current position, Catherine has been responsible for strategy development and implementation, research translation and building and maintaining relationships in large, complex projects.
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Publications
August 2021
Improving the well-being for young people living with rheumatic heart disease: A peer support pilot program through Danila Dilba Health Service
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia have an inequitable burden of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD), concentrated among young people and necessitating ongoing medical care during adolescence. There is an unmet need for improved well-being and support for these young people to complement current biomedical management.
Published research Rheumatic Heart Disease Aboriginal Health Subsite: END RHDNovember 2020Ending rheumatic heart disease in Australia: the evidence for a new approach
The RHD Endgame Strategy: the blueprint to eliminate rheumatic heart disease in Australia by 2031 (the Endgame Strategy) is the blueprint to eliminate rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in Australia by 2031. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people live with one of the highest per capita burdens of RHD in the world.
Published research Rheumatic Heart Disease Aboriginal Health Subsite: END RHD