Dr Monika Dzidowska
Sydney Pharmacy School
Faculty of Medicine and Health
Monika is an early career public health and health services researcher who completed a Master of Public Health in 2001 and a PhD in 2022. Prior to completing her PhD, Monika worked in diverse health research disciplines for over 20 years in Australia and abroad. These included work with WHO’s Neglected Diseases Initiative, the Psycho-oncology Co-operative Research Group, the Centre of Research Excellence in Medicines and Ageing, the Translational Australian Clinical Toxicology program, and the ARDC National Poisoning Databank project. Monika is an adjunct research fellow at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University.
Monika’s research interests include helping communities and health services to respond to alcohol and other drug use in priority populations, developing software solutions to address health risk behaviours, optimising consumer involvement in research, and using continuous quality improvement methods to implement strategies for service improvement in primary care services. This builds on er PhD, which focused on working with Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services to prevent harm from unhealthy alcohol use.
More recently, Monika has been building a novel program of research at theSydney School of Pharmacy. This will bridge her interests in pharmacy practice and reducing harms from alcohol and other drug use. For example,exploring the role of community pharmacists to screen for unhealthy alcohol use and other health risk factors,and developing electronic screening and brief intervention tools that could be used in community pharmacy settings to help individuals to reflect on their drinking.
Monika teaches introductory statistics, data management, and public health modules at the School of Pharmacy.
Publications
Journals
- Lee, K., Lee, A., Hayman, N., Zheng, C., Fitts, M., Wilson, D., Dawson, A., Conigrave, J., Dale, E., Conigrave, K., Dzidowska, M., et al (2024). Acceptability and quality of the ‘Grog Survey App’ brief intervention: Helping Aboriginal Australians reflect on their drinking using a digital health tool. Drug and Alcohol Review. [More Information]
- Dzidowska, M., Lee, K., Conigrave, J., Wilson, S., Hayman, N., Ivers, R., Vnuk, J., Haber, P., Conigrave, K. (2024). Supporting alcohol brief interventions and pharmacotherapy provision in Australian First Nations primary care: exploratory analysis of a cluster randomised trial. BMC Primary Care, 25(1), 351. [More Information]
- Pearson, M., Dawson, A., Raubenheimer, J., Senerathna, L., Conigrave, K., Lee, K., Rajapakse, T., Pushpakumara, P., Siribaddana, S., Soerensen, J., Buckley, N., Haber, P., Dzidowska, M., Glozier, N., et al (2023). Community-based alcohol education intervention (THEATRE) study to reduce harmful effects of alcohol in rural Sri Lanka: design and adaptation of a mixed-methods stepped wedge cluster randomised control trial. BMJ Open, 13(6). [More Information]
Conferences
- Pockett, R., Hobbs, K., Dzidowska, M., Peate, M. (2012). Describing oncology social work and practice in Australia: what is the current 'state of play'? Joint Meeting of IPOS 14th World Congress and COSA's 39th Annual Scientific Meeting, Asia: Wiley Online Library.
2024
- Lee, K., Lee, A., Hayman, N., Zheng, C., Fitts, M., Wilson, D., Dawson, A., Conigrave, J., Dale, E., Conigrave, K., Dzidowska, M., et al (2024). Acceptability and quality of the ‘Grog Survey App’ brief intervention: Helping Aboriginal Australians reflect on their drinking using a digital health tool. Drug and Alcohol Review. [More Information]
- Dzidowska, M., Lee, K., Conigrave, J., Wilson, S., Hayman, N., Ivers, R., Vnuk, J., Haber, P., Conigrave, K. (2024). Supporting alcohol brief interventions and pharmacotherapy provision in Australian First Nations primary care: exploratory analysis of a cluster randomised trial. BMC Primary Care, 25(1), 351. [More Information]
2023
- Pearson, M., Dawson, A., Raubenheimer, J., Senerathna, L., Conigrave, K., Lee, K., Rajapakse, T., Pushpakumara, P., Siribaddana, S., Soerensen, J., Buckley, N., Haber, P., Dzidowska, M., Glozier, N., et al (2023). Community-based alcohol education intervention (THEATRE) study to reduce harmful effects of alcohol in rural Sri Lanka: design and adaptation of a mixed-methods stepped wedge cluster randomised control trial. BMJ Open, 13(6). [More Information]
2022
- Conigrave, J., Wilson, S., Conigrave, K., Chikritzhs, T., Hayman, N., Dawson, A., Ali, R., Perry, J., Fitts, M., Degenhardt, L., Doyle, M., Slade, T., Dzidowska, M., Lee, K., et al (2022). 'The Drug Survey App': a protocol for developing and validating an interactive population survey tool for drug use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 17(1), 17. [More Information]
- Dzidowska, M., Raubenheimer, J., Dobbins, T., Lee, K., Hayman, N., Vnuk, J., Haber, P., Conigrave, K. (2022). Effects of service-wide support on regularity of alcohol screening of clients in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Health Services: a cluster randomised trial. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 17(1), 13-1-13-12. [More Information]
- Dzidowska, M., Lee, K., Conigrave, J., Dobbins, T., Hummerston, B., Wilson, S., Haber, P., Gray, D., Conigrave, K. (2022). Support for Aboriginal health services in reducing harms from alcohol: 2-year service provision outcomes in a cluster randomized trial. Addiction, 117(3), 796-803. [More Information]
2020
- Dzidowska, M., Lee, K., Wylie, C., Bailie, J., Percival, N., Conigrave, J., Hayman, N., Conigrave, K. (2020). A systematic review of approaches to improve practice, detection and treatment of unhealthy alcohol use in primary health care: a role for continuous quality improvement. BMC Family Practice, 21(1), 33. [More Information]
2016
- Pockett, R., Peate, M., Hobbs, K., Dzidowska, M., Bell, M., Baylock, B., Epstein, I. (2016). The characteristics of oncology social work in Australia: Implications for workforce planning in integrated cancer care. Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, 12(4), 444-452. [More Information]
2015
- Pockett, R., Dzidowska, M., Hobbs, K. (2015). Social work intervention research with adult cancer patients: A literature review and reflection on knowledge-building for practice. Social Work in Health Care, 54(7), 582-614. [More Information]
2014
- Thewes, B., Brebach, R., Dzidowska, M., Rhodes, P., Sharpe, L., Butow, P. (2014). Current approaches to managing fear of cancer recurrence; a descriptive survey of psychosocial and clinical health professionals. Psycho-Oncology, 23(4), 390-396. [More Information]
2012
- Pockett, R., Hobbs, K., Dzidowska, M., Peate, M. (2012). Describing oncology social work and practice in Australia: what is the current 'state of play'? Joint Meeting of IPOS 14th World Congress and COSA's 39th Annual Scientific Meeting, Asia: Wiley Online Library.
2010
- Dzidowska, M., Price, M., Butow, P. (2010). Identifying research priorities and research needs among health and research professionals in psycho-oncology. Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, 6(3), 165-172. [More Information]