Dr Miriam Brooks

Senior Lecturer, Department of General Practice

Biography

Dr Miriam Brooks is a General Practitioner from the Blue Mountains. Miriam trained as a GP in rural NSW, then worked for seven years in Aboriginal community controlled health organisations in Western Sydney and Canberra, and now works in a refugee health clinic and at a Women’s Health Centre in the Blue Mountains. Miriam has developed an interest in community based evaluation research, exploring innovative and people centred models of health care that promote health equity. Her masters project was an evaluation of the service for young people at Katoomba Women’s health centre, a weekly drop in afternoon program including a facilitated visual art group alongside GP, nurse and counsellor services. Her current evaluation project is with NSW Refugee Health service, an evaluation of their multidisciplinary Asylum Seeker Advocacy Clinical team (ASACT) and their partnerships with community organisations supporting people seeking asylum with the social determinants of health.

Research Interests

• Health equity
• Culturally responsive care
• Trauma informed care
• People centred care
• Arts and health

Qualifications and Recognition

• MB.BS 1998, FRACGP, Masters Qualitative Health Research
• RACGP research foundation grant (Evaluation of Young Women’s clinic Katoomba)

Research and Publications

https://research-report.uws.edu.au/wpubs/Portal.asp

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