Dr Beau Jayde Cubillo

First Nations Senior Research Fellow

Qualifications:

PhD, Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food, Monash University, 2023 Bachelor of Nutrition (Honours), Monash University 2018 Bachelor of Human Nutrition, Flinders University 2016

Location:

Darwin - Royal Darwin Hospital campus

Biography:
Dr Cubillo is a (Larrakia and Wadjigan) First Nations Senior Research Fellow within the Wellbeing & Preventable Chronic Diseases (WPCD) Division at Menzies. 

Cubillo has expertise and experience in research related to Indigenous nutrition, health, and wellbeing in addition to qualitative and Indigenous Research Methodologies. Cubillo's research is primarily focused within the Northern Territory and has emphasised community engagement, reciprocity and translation to community programs and policy. Research undertaken by Cubillo has focused on conceptualising how nutrition, health and wellbeing in connected to Indigenous food systems from Indigenous perspectives. Cubillo also leads programs of research on the Indigenous commercial determinants of health.

Cubillo is a current member of the Coalition for Healthy Remote Stores that has successfully advocated for research evidence on best-practice for healthy remote stores to be adopted into the NT Remote Stores Program.  Cubillo has previously served on the Medicine, Nursing, Health Science, Health Equity, Education Committee at Monash University, the Global Indigenous Food System hub and the Indigenous Engagement Working Group chaired by the Pro-Vice Chancellor (Indigenous) at Monash University.

Cubillo is an Investigator on Fisheries Research Development Corporation and NHMRC grants totalling over $5 Million. Dr Cubillo holds adjunct Research Fellow positions with the School of Social and Health Development at Deakin University and the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food at Monash University.
 
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Research Themes
  • Fisheries Research Development Corporation: An investigation of Indigenous knowledges and nutritional health and wellbeing benefits and values of seafood for supporting Indigenous fisheries development (2019-143)
  • ACHIEVE – Address Commercial Health-determinants: Indigenous Empowerment and Voices for Equity (2035274
  • Project White-ant: co-creating knowledge with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities about mobilising to protect against commercial determinants of health (2035579)
  • A co-designed framework to drive action to promote health and equity in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community stores (2035564)
  • Medicine, Nursing Health Science Monash University: Planetary Health Education co-design 


 

  1. CUBILLO, B., Stacey, N., & Brimblecombe, J. (2023). How is nutrition, health and wellbeing conceptualised in connection with seafood for coastal Indigenous Peoples. Food Policy, 116, 102434. doi
  2. CUBILLO, B., Brimblecombe, J. & Stacey, N. The representation of Aboriginal health and wellbeing values within coastal marine and fisheries policies of the Northern Territory of Australia. Maritime Studies 23, 27 (2024).
  3. CUBILLO B, McCartan J, West C, Brimblecombe J, (2020) A Qualitative Analysis of the Accessibility and Connection to Traditional Food for Aboriginal Chronic Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients, Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 4, Issue 4, April 2020. 
  4. CUBILLO, BEAU JAYDE (2023). The conceptualisation and representation of coastal Indigenous Peoples; health values in connection to seafood and the implications for policy. Monash University. Thesis. doi.org/10.26180/23560764.v1
  5. Crocetti AC, CUBILLO (LARRAKIA) B, Lock (Ngiyampaa) M, et al. (2022) The commercial determinants of Indigenous health and wellbeing: a systematic scoping review. BMJ Global Health;7. 
  6. Crocetti, A.C., CUBILLO (LARRAKIA), B., Walker (Yorta Yorta), T. et al. ‘A recipe for cultural disaster!’– a case study of Woolworths Group’s proposal to build an alcohol megastore in Page 4 of 5 Darwin, Northern Territory. Global Health 19, 38 (2023). doi.org/10.1186/s12992-023-009385
  7. Crocetti AC, CUBILLO (Larrakia) B, Hill (Torres Strait Islander) K, Carter (Yorta Yorta) M, Paradies (Wakaya) Y, Backholer K, Browne J, Media coverage of commercial industry activities impacting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, 2018–2022, Health Promotion International, Volume 38, Issue 6, December 2023, daad157, doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daad157
  8. Van Burgel E, Holden S, Ferguson M, Cullerton K, McCartan J, Turner N, CUBILLO B, Day G, Brimblecombe J. (2023). Food security in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in remote Australia during the Covid-19 pandemic: An analysis of print news media and press releases. (ANZJPH). 
  9. Tonkin E, Jeffs L, Wycherley TP, Maher C, Smith R, Hart J, CUBILLO B, Brimblecombe J A Smartphone App to Reduce Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption Among Young Adults in Australian Remote Indigenous Communities: Design, Formative Evaluation and User-Testing JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2017;5(12): e192doi: 10.2196/mhealth.8651PMID: 29233803PMCID: 5743922
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