Trudi Sieland
Project Support and Evaluation Officer
Qualifications:
Master of International Development, RMIT University, 2015 Master of Public Health, Menzies School of Health Research, ongoing Bachelor of Accounting, Divine Word University, Papua New Guinea, 2008
Location:
Darwin – Royal Darwin Hospital
Biography:
Trudi is an emerging qualitative researcher with the Renal program. She manages the Renal Wellbeing project that looks at ‘Models of care to reduce ED pressures related patients missing dialysis’.
Trudi is currently enroled in the Master of Public Health program at Menzies, completing her thesis on ‘Key turning points and facilitating factors of health trajectories as told by First Nations people in the NT’. It is a qualitative research project nested in the Aboriginal Birth Cohort (ABC) study, who she was engaged by prior to joining the renal program.
Trudi previously worked in international development in her native Papua New Guinea and the wider Pacific as well as the United Kingdom in the areas of human rights and community empowerment, supporting local organisations in their endeavour towards social justice. In 2019 she relocated with her family to Darwin which triggered a career shift to health research. Her interests are in advocating for cultural and social determinants of health and promoting people-centred health approaches.
