A huge congratulations to Professor Anthony Smith for receiving a UQ Research Culture Award in recognition of his research achievements over the last 20 years. Professor Smith was nominated for Public Engagement & Community-led Research, alongside 15 other researchers and research teams.
Source: https://research-support.uq.edu.au/uq-research-culture-awards
The UQ Research Culture Awards recognises outstanding contributions, achievements, and leadership that have influenced the research landscape at UQ. The awards celebrate academic and professional individuals and teams who have demonstrated dedication and commitment to areas such as research conduct, reproducibility, open research practices, innovation, collaboration, community engagement, and research career development.
Professor Smith was recognised for his contribution to increasing access to health services within rural and remote communities, and Indigenous communities. His projects included a community-based telemedicine health screening programme for Indigenous children in Queensland; evaluation of telehealth applications in primary care settings and Indigenous communities; and working in partnership with the Cherbourg community to establish a telemedicine service for the routine screening of Indigenous children at high risk of chronic health conditions.
Also nominated in the same category was the Centre for Online Health’s Telehealth Consumer Reference Group, led by Dr Soraia De Camargo Catapan, in appreciation of their engagement with consumers to improve telehealth services for patients. Soraia and Senior Research Assistant Roshni Mendis accepted Professor Smith’s award on his behalf. Excellent work, Anthony!
