Kristy Crooks
Profile
Dr Kristy Crooks is an Aboriginal woman of the Euahlayi nation and has a spiritual connection to the Wiradjuri people. She is an Aboriginal Program Manager, with the Health Protection Unit for Hunter New England Population Health. Dr Crooks is a member of the APPRISE Executive and co-Chair of the FIrst Nations Pandemic Research PreparednesS NeTwork (FIRST) Governance Group.
Her research focuses on developing a process of how to privilege Aboriginal voices in infectious disease emergency planning and response. Dr Crooks’s formal qualifications, lived experience and working career has provided her with in-depth knowledge and understanding of the health and health related issues that Aboriginal people face.
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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 Disaster Management Plans for COVID-19
- Privileging Aboriginal voices in infectious disease emergencies
Related Publications
- “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