Professor Craig Veitch
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Qualifications: PhD (UQ), BA Hons (Macq), DipAppSc Rad Ther (QUT) Positions held:
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Biography
Professor Veitch is an epidemiologist and health services researcher with clinical experience in radiation therapy (1974-88). His particular skills are in study design, data collection and analysis procedures. His 20 years' research experience includes development and evaluation in rural health workforce, rural health services, and policy in Australia, Canada, Scotland, Thailand and The Philippines.
Professor Veitch is an Adjunct Professor within the James Cook University School of Medicine where he was formerly the inaugural Professor of Rural Health (2000-07).
His research interests include community-based health care, rural road safety, rural health, health care seeking and decision making, primary health care, health workforce, rural cancer patients' experiences and health care decisions, and after hours primary health care. He has over 200 publications in peer reviewed journals, books and monographs, peer-reviewed conference papers, and working reports. He has been an invited keynote presenter at 35 invited national and international conferences, summer schools and workshops. He has been involved in over 50 research projects with a total value in excess of $15M.
Teaching and Service Repsonsibilities
Predominantly postgraduate research student supervision, plus some invited undergraduate lectures in Indigenous Health, Community Based Health Care, rural health, epidemiology, and oncology.
Research Opportunities
Selected Publications
- VEITCH C, 2009. Impact of rurality: environmental determinants. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 2009; 17(1): 16-20.
- McDonell AC, VEITCH C, Aitken P, Elcock M, 2009. The organisation of trauma services for rural Australia. Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care, 7(2): article 990308.
- Hanks H, VEITCH PC, Harris MF, 2008. A rural/urban comparison of the roles of the General Practitioner in Colorectal Cancer Management. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 16(6): 376-382.
- VEITCH C, Crossland LJ, Steeghs M, Ho Y-H, Hanks H, 2008. Patients' experiences of colorectal cancer and oncology services in north Queensland. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 14(3): 93-100.
- Heal C, VEITCH C, Preston R, 2008. Lessons from the field: Conducting practice-based research. Australian Family Physician, 37(5): 381-384.
- Howat A, VEITCH C, Cairns W, 2007. A retrospective review of place of death of palliative care patients in regional north Queensland. Palliative Medicine 21(1): 41-7.
- VEITCH PC, Underhill A, Hays RB, 2006. The career aspirations and location intentions of James Cook University's first cohort of medical students: a longitudinal study at course entry and graduation. Rural and Remote Health 6: 537 (online).
- VEITCH C, Grant M, 2004. Community involvement in medical practitioner recruitment and retention: reflections on experience. Rural and Remote Health 4: no 261 (online).
Selected Grants
- Integrating evidence into policy and sustainable service delivery: The ‘wobbly hub and double spokes' model. NHMRC Partnership Grant in collaboration with NSW Ageing Disability and Home Care (2010-2015).Referral pathways in colorectal cancer: general practitioners' patterns of referral and factors that influence referral. Cancer Council of Australia Project Grant (2009-11).
- Building research capacity in Indigenous Australians and community controlled health services, NHMRC Research Capacity Building Grant (2007-2011).
- Evaluation of two strategies undertaken by Queensland Emergency Medical System Coordination Centre (QCC) in Townsville to improve outcomes for rural patients following traumatic injury. Australian Rotary Health Research Fund (2007-09).
- The Rural & Remote Road Safety Study, jointly funded by the Queensland Government and Motor Accident Insurance Commission, to investigate the social, medical and economic costs of road crashes in north Queensland (2003-08).