Kristy Crooks
Profile
Dr Kristy Crooks is a Euahlayi woman with a spiritual connection to Wiradjuri Country.
Dr Crooks is Associate Director, Public Health and Strategic Insights at the Centre for Aboriginal Health, NSW Health. Before taking up this role, she was Aboriginal Program Manager with Hunter New England Population Health’s Health Protection Unit.
Dr Crooks is a member of the APPRISE Executive and co-Chair of the FIrst Nations Pandemic Research PreparednesS NeTwork (FIRST) Governance Group.
Dr Crooks’s doctoral research focused on privileging First Nations voices and decision-making in pandemic preparedness and response. Her formal qualifications, lived experience and extensive career in Aboriginal public health have given her deep knowledge of the health priorities of Aboriginal people and communities and the systems and structures that shape health outcomes.
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Related Projects
- Adaptation of the First Few Hundred protocol for infectious disease events for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations
- Community perspectives on distributing an initially limited supply of vaccines in the event of an influenza pandemic
- First Nations Community Panels on COVID-19
- First Nations Community Panels: Community-Led decision-making for bird flu preparedness
- First Nations Disaster Management Plans for COVID-19
- Privileging Aboriginal voices in infectious disease emergencies
Related Publications
- Privileging First Nations voices and decision-making in pandemic preparedness and response
- “No one ever comes back and asks us how could we do it better”: findings from First Nations community panels about ways to keep First Nations peoples safe from COVID-19
- Aboriginal cultural support during COVID-19: a mixed-methods study in a local health district, New South Wales, Australia
- We cannot repeat history again: a call to action to centre Indigenous leadership as we prepare for the next pandemic
- Highlighting models of Indigenous leadership and self-governance for COVID-19 vaccination programmes
- Having a real say: findings from first nations community panels on pandemic influenza vaccine distribution
- Embedding Aboriginal cultural governance, capacity, perspectives and leadership into a local Public Health Unit Incident Command System during COVID-19 in New South Wales, Australia
- Engage, understand, listen and act: evaluation of Community Panels to privilege First Nations voices in pandemic planning and response in Australia
- The ongoing value of first few X studies for COVID-19 in the Western Pacific Region
- Development and implementation of a shared governance model in a mainstream health unit: a case study of embedding Aboriginal voices in organisational decision making
- Constructing an ethical framework for priority allocation of pandemic vaccines
- Priority allocation of pandemic influenza vaccines in Australia – Recommendations of 3 community juries
- Ending COVID-19: progress and gaps in research—highlights of the July 2020 GloPID-R COVID-19 Research Synergies Meetings
- Outcomes reported for Australian First Nation populations for the influenza A(H1N1) 2009 pandemic and lessons for future infectious disease emergencies: a systematic review
- First Nations people leading the way in COVID-19 pandemic planning, response and management
- Defining, controlling and analysing Indigenous data: commitment to historical consistency or commitment to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples?
- Planning for and responding to pandemic influenza emergencies: it’s time to listen to, prioritize and privilege Aboriginal perspectives
- Letter to the Editor in response to the article by Borg et al