Associate Professor Rowena Ivers
Sydney School of Public Health
Faculty of Medicine and Health
Rowena Ivers (MBBS FRACGP PhD MPH DipRANZCOG Grad Dip Rur Health FAICD is an academic general practitioner and has trained as a public health physician. She has worked as a GP mainly in Aboriginal health settings in NSW and the NT for over 25 years. She has been a medical educator for many years and previously was a board member of GPSA and CoastCityCountry RTP and continues to teach both medical students and GP registrars.
Research interests include Aboriginal primary care, tobacco and alcohol programs for Aboriginal people, primary care based cancer programs, lactation, health financing and medical education
She is involved in medical student teaching, GP registrar training, and Master's level course development and teaching. She is also currently supervising one PhD student.
CRE in Indigenous Health and Alcohol/ trial of primary care based alcohol programs
NHMRC Optimise study (research fellow)
Illawarra AMS Cancer Care Team/ collaboration with AHMRC
RACGP
2002 Inaugural Chris Silagy Fellow, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Publications
Journals
- Conigrave, J., Lee, K., Dobbins, T., Wilson, S., Padarian Campusano, J., Ivers, R., Morley, K., Haber, P., Vnuk, J., Marshall, K., Conigrave, K. (2024). No improvement in AUDIT-C screening and brief intervention rates among wait-list controls following support of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services: evidence from a cluster randomised trial. BMC Health Services Research, 24(1). [More Information]
- Cortie, C., Garne, D., Parker-Newlyn, L., Ivers, R., Mullan, J., Mansfield, K., Bonney, A. (2023). A comparison of rural and regional work locations and speciality choices between graduates from the University of Wollongong and all Australian medical schools using the Medical Schools Outcomes Database. Australian Journal of Rural Health. [More Information]
- Redwood, L., Saarinen, K., Ivers, R., Garne, D., De Souza, P., Bonney, A., Rhee, J., Mullan, J., Thomas, S. (2023). Alcohol consumption and health-related quality of life in regional, rural and metropolitan Australia: analysis of cross-sectional data from the Community Health and Rural/Regional Medicine (CHARM) study. Quality of Life Research. [More Information]
2024
- Conigrave, J., Lee, K., Dobbins, T., Wilson, S., Padarian Campusano, J., Ivers, R., Morley, K., Haber, P., Vnuk, J., Marshall, K., Conigrave, K. (2024). No improvement in AUDIT-C screening and brief intervention rates among wait-list controls following support of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services: evidence from a cluster randomised trial. BMC Health Services Research, 24(1). [More Information]
2023
- Cortie, C., Garne, D., Parker-Newlyn, L., Ivers, R., Mullan, J., Mansfield, K., Bonney, A. (2023). A comparison of rural and regional work locations and speciality choices between graduates from the University of Wollongong and all Australian medical schools using the Medical Schools Outcomes Database. Australian Journal of Rural Health. [More Information]
- Redwood, L., Saarinen, K., Ivers, R., Garne, D., De Souza, P., Bonney, A., Rhee, J., Mullan, J., Thomas, S. (2023). Alcohol consumption and health-related quality of life in regional, rural and metropolitan Australia: analysis of cross-sectional data from the Community Health and Rural/Regional Medicine (CHARM) study. Quality of Life Research. [More Information]
- Cortie, C., Garne, D., Parker-Newlyn, L., Ivers, R., Mullan, J., Mansfield, K., Bonney, A. (2023). An automated protocol for assessing career rurality outcomes of Australian health professionals using retrospective data. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 31(6), 1252-1260. [More Information]
2022
- Mullan, J., Metusela, C., Guppy, M., Pond, D., Ivers, R., Hoffman, R., Rhee, J., Hespe, C., Davis, A., Barnett, S., et al (2022). Development of a COVID-19 virtual community of practice in New South Wales. Australian Journal of General Practice, 51(4), 263-269. [More Information]
- Vuong, K., Ivers, R., Dykgraaf, S., Nixon, M., Roberts, G., Liaw, S. (2022). Ethical considerations regarding the use of pooled data from electronic health records in general practice. Australian Journal of General Practice, 51(7), 537-540. [More Information]
- Matriano, M., Ivers, R., Meedya, S. (2022). Factors that influence women's decision on infant feeding: An integrative review. Women and Birth, 35(5), 430-439. [More Information]
2021
- Dale, E., Conigrave, K., Kelly, P., Ivers, R., Clapham, K., Lee, K. (2021). A Delphi yarn: applying Indigenous knowledges to enhance the cultural utility of SMART Recovery Australia. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 16(1), 2. [More Information]
- Dale, E., Lee, K., Conigrave, K., Conigrave, J., Ivers, R., Clapham, K., Kelly, P. (2021). A multi-methods yarn about SMART Recovery: First insights from Australian Aboriginal facilitators and group members. Drug and Alcohol Review, 40(6), 1013-1027. [More Information]
- Osborne, B., Kelly, P., Robinson, L., Ivers, R., Deane, F., Larance, B. (2021). Facilitators and barriers to integrating physical health care during treatment for substance use: A socio-ecological analysis. Drug and Alcohol Review, 40(4), 607-616. [More Information]
2020
- Osborne, B., Kelly, P., Larance, B., Robinson, L., Ivers, R., Deane, F., Webber, A., Kelly, D. (2020). Substance Use and Co-occurring Physical Health Problems: File Review of a Residential Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service. Journal of Dual Diagnosis, 16(2), 250-259. [More Information]
- Tracy, M., Shepherd, H., Ivers, R., Mann, M., Chiappini, L., Trevena, L. (2020). What patients want to ask their doctors: Data analysis from Question Builder, an online question prompt list tool. Patient Education and Counseling, 103(5), 937-943. [More Information]
2019
- Ivers, R., Jackson, B., Levett, T., Wallace, K., Winch, S. (2019). Home to health care to hospital: Evaluation of a cancer care team based in Australian Aboriginal primary care. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 27(1), 88-92. [More Information]
- Harrison, K., Lee, K., Dobbins, T., Wilson, S., Hayman, N., Ivers, R., Haber, P., Conigrave, J., Johnson, D., Hummerston, B., Conigrave, K., et al (2019). Supporting Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services to deliver alcohol care: Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 9(11), 1-10. [More Information]
- Dale, E., Kelly, P., Lee, K., Conigrave, J., Ivers, R., Clapham, K. (2019). Systematic review of addiction recovery mutual support groups and Indigenous people of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States of America and Hawaii. Addictive Behaviors, 98, 1-7. [More Information]
2018
- Conigrave, K., Ivers, R., Morley, K., Haber, P. (2018). Managing your withdrawal from alcohol at home. Medicine Today, 19(12), 33-34.
- Islam, M., Oni, H., Lee, K., Hayman, N., Wilson, S., Harrison, K., Hummerston, B., Ivers, R., Conigrave, K. (2018). Standardised alcohol screening in primary health care services targeting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 13(1), 1-11. [More Information]
- Conigrave, K., Ivers, R., Morley, K., Haber, P. (2018). Treating alcohol dependence: Managing withdrawal and preventing relapse. Medicine Today, 19(12), 24-32.
2017
- Brett, J., Dawson, A., Ivers, R., Lawrence, L., Barclay, S., Conigrave, K. (2017). Healing at Home: Developing a Model for Ambulatory Alcohol "Detox" in an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service. International Journal of Indigenous Health, 12(1), 24-38. [More Information]
- Stanford, L., Bonney, A., Ivers, R., Mullan, J., Rich, W., Dijkmans-Hadley, B. (2017). Patients' attitudes towards chaperone use for intimate physical examinations in general practice. Australian Family Physician, 46(11), 867-873.
2016
- Williams, F., Mahfouz, C., Bonney, A., Pearson, R., Seidel, B., Dijkmans-Hadley, B., Ivers, R. (2016). A circle of silence: The attitudes of patients older than 65 years of age to ceasing long-term sleeping tablets. Australian Family Physician, 45(7), 506-511.
2015
- Sarin, J., Hunt, J., Ivers, R., Smyth, C. (2015). Lifting the burden: A coordinated approach to action on Aboriginal tobacco resistance and control in NSW. Public Health Research and Practice, 25(3). [More Information]
- Brett, J., Ivers, R., Doyle, M., Lawrence, L., Conigrave, K. (2015). Should naltrexone be the first-line medicine to treat alcohol dependence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations? An Australian perspective. Australian Family Physician, 44(11), 815-819. [More Information]
2014
- Brett, J., Lawrence, L., Ivers, R., Conigrave, K. (2014). Outpatient alcohol withdrawal management for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Australian Family Physician, 43(8), 563-566.
2013
- Robertson, J., Conigrave, K., Ivers, R., Hindmarsh, E., Clough, A. (2013). Addressing high rates of smoking in remote Aboriginal communities: New evidence for GPs. Australian Family Physician, 42(7), 492-496. [More Information]
2012
- Robertson, J., Conigrave, K., Ivers, R., Usher, K., Clough, A. (2012). Translation of tobacco policy into practice in disadvantaged and marginalized subpopulations: a study of challenges and opportunities in remote Australian Indigenous communities. Health Research Policy and Systems, 10, 1-12. [More Information]
2011
- Clough, A., Maclaren, D., Robertson, J., Ivers, R., Conigrave, K. (2011). Can we measure daily tobacco consumption in remote Indigenous communities? Comparing self-reported tobacco consumption with community-level estimates in an Arnhem Land study. Drug and Alcohol Review, 30(-), 166-172. [More Information]
- Clifford, A., Jackson-Pulver, L., Richmond, R., Shakeshaft, A., Ivers, R. (2011). Smoking, nutrition, alcohol and physical activity interventions targeting Indigenous australians: Rigorous evaluations and new directions needed. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 35(1), 38-46. [More Information]
2010
- Clifford, A., Jackson Pulver, L., Richmond, R., Shakeshaft, A., Ivers, R. (2010). Brief intervention resource kits for Indigenous Australians: Generally evidence-based, but missing important components. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 34, S80-S86. [More Information]
- Maclaren, D., Conigrave, K., Robertson, J., Ivers, R., Eades, S., Clough, A. (2010). Using breath carbon monoxide to validate self-reported tobacco smoking in remote Australian Indigenous communities. Population Health Metrics, 8(2), 1-7. [More Information]
2009
- Clifford, A., Jackson Pulver, L., Richmond, R., Shakeshaft, A., Ivers, R. (2009). Disseminating best-evidence health-care to Indigenous health-care settings and programs in Australia: Identifying the gaps. Health Promotion International, 24(4), 404-415. [More Information]
Selected Grants
2018
- Develop and pilot a tool to assess if best evidence is being translated into practice for Aboriginal people in the area of cancer care, when compared to Optimal Care Pathways, Ivers R, Cancer Australia/The Primary Care Collaborative Cancer Clinical Trials Group (PC4) Training Award