DrNatalie Winter

Dr Natalie Winter is a Senior Reserach Fellow in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Her program of research includes develping and assessing how digital health interventions can be adapted for carers of people with a variety of types of cancer, and for people from diverse backgrounds (LGBTIQA+).  She uses co-design methods, working with consumers, national organisations, and government to develop interventions which are fit for purpose. Dr Winter has been awarded over $2.6 million in awards and research funding and has published over 30 papers. 

She has ongoing collaborations with reserchers from Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, and the University of Southern Denmark investigating the use of video-based edcuation packages for people living with complex cancers and their family carer during the transition from hospital to home. 

Dr Winter's interest is in progressing the inclusion of carers in the healthcare system through policy, have published a policy brief on prioritising carers and presenting to government during the Royal Commission Inquiry into the Role of Unpaid Carers. View the Policy Brief here: https://ahha.asn.au/resource/deeble-issues-brief-no-50-prioritising-carers-health-and-wellbeing-in-the-healthcare-system/  

She has been a project manager on two large scale randomised controlled trials for over 6 years and have expertise in the development of interventions, recruitment and data collection, and dissemination of findings in peer reviewed journals.