Dr Josie Povey
AIMhi for Youth - Darwin Site Lead
Qualifications:
PhD, Menzies School of Health Research/Charles Darwin University, 2022
Masters of Public Health, Menzies School of Health Research, 2016
Bachelor of Occupational Therapy, James Cook University, 2006
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Biography:
Josie believes empowering people and communities results in lasting positive change. Josie is a qualitative researcher, mental health clinician and Occupational Therapist, who has worked in the Northern Territory in clinical and research roles since 2009. Josie’s doctoral thesis: The Aboriginal and Islander Mental Health Initiative for Youth App Project: An emerging framework for digital mental health design with Indigenous young people, explores the lived experiences of First Nations young people in remote and urban NT in relation to their wellbeing and involved them in the co-design of a new digital mental health tool, the AIMhi-Y app.
Josie collaborates with individuals and communities, including First Nations and non-Indigenous stakeholders to address, advocate and innovate for; early intervention mental health care, service access, the use of technology in mental health care and participatory research methods. Josie has a strong interest in community engagement, capacity building and knowledge translation. She has co-led collaborations with First Nations people and communities to co-design and develop mental health resources in language and using digital approaches such as Ngawurrmangajirri resources, Youth Health Summit Podcast series and the AIMhi-Y app.
