Professor Catherine Turner RN, BA, Grad Dip Ed, MN, PhD

[Study Director]

Cathy Turner has nursing and education qualifications, clinical experience in critical care and emergency nursing and a PhD in population health. Over the last fifteen years Cathy Turner has been involved in the tertiary education of nurses and is currently the Head of School at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Queensland. In recent years, Cathy has established a research profile in injury epidemiology and quantifying the prevalence and incidence of population health outcomes using epidemiological research methods. Cathy has been teaching Epidemiology at The University of Queensland since 2000, concurrently her background in nursing education led her to develop and implement a new undergraduate nursing program at the University in 2004 for which she received a UQ Excellence in Teaching Award in 2005. It is in this context that Cathy has brought together a research team with a range of expertise to focus on recruitment and retention issues and health outcomes within the nursing and midwifery professions by establishing the Nurses & Midwives e-cohort. In 2006 Cathy received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to spend several months at Harvard University learning about longitudinal study methods from the Nurses' Health Study research group.