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Personal profile
Biography
Graham Meadows has three adjunct professorial roles with Monash University. These are in the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, The School of Primary and Allied Health Care, and the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. He also has an Honorary Professorial role with the University of Melbourne School of Population and Global Health and is employed as a Consultant Psychiatrist with Monash Health. From 2003 to early 2023 he was Foundation Director of Southern Synergy, the Monash Health Adult Psychiatry Research, Training and Evaluation Centre.
Professor Meadows is a prominent figure in innovation and evaluation in mental health care in Australia, with national and international profiles in areas such as GP shared care, resource distribution, applications of mindfulness in clinical mental health practice, and recovery-oriented practice. His research, clinical leadership, policy advisory and training activities have reflected continuing commitment to a value base including equity, empowerment, efficiency and sound use of evidence at all levels of healthcare delivery and planning.
After medical training in the UK, Graham Meadows gained postgraduate experience there in General Practice, Epidemiology, Public Health and Internal Medicine including gaining Membership of the Royal College of Physicians. He then qualified and practiced in Psychiatry at leading institutions in the UK and Australia. From 1993 onwards Graham established a prominent position in Australia in fields of primary care psychiatry and applied epidemiology, including working as Clinical Lead of the NorthWest Area Mental Health Service, contributing to development of models of GP liaison, multidisciplinary training, individual and population needs assessment where the development of the Perceived Need for Care Questionnaire (PNCQ) was the subject of his Doctoral research thesis. From 2001 to 2022 he was the RANZCP representative on the Australian General Practice Mental Health Standards Collaboration.
Prof Meadows has over 200 publications of different kinds spanning topic areas including: epidemiology of eating disorders; assessment of psychiatric disorders in people with intellectual disability; the role of the police in mental health care; ethical and evidence-based approaches to mental health care resource distribution; collaborative shared care models, population and individual needs assessment; smoking cessation and mental health problems; health services epidemiology; mindfulness based psychological approaches in depression; depression and headache; health economics, educational evaluations, simulation modelling, evaluation methodology, recovery-oriented practice, social and cultural iatrogenesis, and psychological impacts of climate change. He has led editorial teams on an innovative major textbook for multidisciplinary mental health care, with four editions published by Oxford University Press in 2002, 2007, 2012 and the latest, 'Mental Health Collaborative Community Practice; an Australian Perspective' in 2021. He has established and/or contributed to multidisciplinary postgraduate and undergraduate courses in mental health and has been an invited expert speaker at international conferences on topics including translational research in mindfulness and GP Shared-Care. A longstanding contributor to multiple conference committees, in 2013 he chaired the organising committee and was Convener for the first Australian Mindfulness Science and Practice Conference, held in Melbourne. More recently he co-chaired the Organising and Program Committees for the International Conference on Mindfulness - Asia Pacific, held online, with local events in Melbourne and Auckland, from November 15-18, 2022.
He is a member of the International Federation for Psychiatric Epidemiology, the Asia-Pacific Mindfulness Network, the International Access MBCT Register, and of the World Psychiatric Association Section of Epidemiology and Public Health. He is an active journal reviewer as documented on his publons profile. He is on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Mental Health Systems and the Q1 journal Mindfulness. He has been an investigator on 35 grants, for over $11.5 Million, leading 24 of these for over $6.3 million, including being principal investigator on two investigator-initiated multi-site clinical trials.
Now semi-retired, he continues to seek to contribute as an active thinker and researcher from adjunct, honorary, advisory, consultancy and reviewing roles.
Research interests
Health services epidemiology
Health services research
Mindfulness in Therapeutic interventions
Workforce development, particularly multidisciplinary approaches to clinical and professional education and development
Primary care psychiatry
Mental health economics
Supervision interests
Epidemiology of Health Service Use, particularly making use of the opportunities afforded to secondary analytical work by releases of Australian Bureau of Statistics and Medicare data sets.
Mindfulness and mental health problems, including work on mechanisms of action, and clinical applications - working from the base of MBCT
Primary mental health care and effective models of linkage with specialist services
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- Epidemiological Analysis
- Health Services Epidemiology
- Meditation Practices
- Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Mental health
- Mindfulness
- Mindfulness-Based Therapies
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 24 Finished
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Repurposing the Mindfulness and Compassion program (MAC-P) using co-design to create a transdiagnostic online intervention for youth attending rural/regional mental health services
Nelson, B. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Meadows, G. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Fossey, E. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Hickey, T. (Chief Investigator (CI))
15/05/23 → 15/05/24
Project: Research
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Consumer choice pilot – co-design and evaluation support
Shawyer, F. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)) & Meadows, G. (Chief Investigator (CI))
1/06/21 → 1/06/22
Project: Research
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Better Mental Health Treatment Plans Project
Meadows, G., Shawyer, F., Fossey, E., Enticott, J. & Kunin, M.
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Limited (RACGP)
17/02/20 → 22/05/20
Project: Research
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Monash Health Young People’s Mental Health Research and Evaluation & Sexual Safety
Fossey, E., Shawyer, F., Dixon, K. & Meadows, G.
1/01/20 → 31/01/23
Project: Research
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Place-based suicide prevention trials evaluation (summative phase)
Shawyer, F. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Meadows, G. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Enticott, J. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Edan, V. (Associate Investigator (AI)) & Johnson, B. (Chief Investigator (CI))
Department of Health (DH) (Victoria)
1/01/20 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
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A longitudinal study of the impacts of a stay in a Prevention and Recovery Care service in Victoria, Australia
Brophy, L., Fletcher, J., Dawadi, S., Reece, J., Edan, V., Enticott, J., Farhall, J., Fossey, E., Hamilton, B., Harvey, C., Meadows, G., Mihalopoulos, C., Morrisroe, E., Newton, R., Palmer, V., Vine, R., Waks, S. & Pirkis, J., Jul 2024, In: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 58, 7, p. 615–626 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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A qualitative evaluation of the questionnaire about the process of recovery (QPR) in culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) populations
Kakuma, R., Cajethan, O. U., Shawyer, F., Edan, V., Wilson-Evered, E., Meadows, G. & Brophy, L., 2024, In: International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care. 20, 1, p. 88-103 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Differentiating mindfulness-integrated cognitive behavior therapy and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy clinically: the why, how, and what of evidence-based practice
Francis, S. E. B., Shawyer, F., Cayoun, B. A., Grabovac, A. & Meadows, G., 2024, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 15, 12 p., 1342592.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus) -
The relatives of people with depression: A systematic review and methodological critique of qualitative studies
Buus, N., Petersen, A., McPherson, S., Meadows, G., Brand, G. & Ong, B., Sept 2024, In: Family Process. 63, 3, p. 1469–1483 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus) -
Trends and determinants of mental illness in humanitarian migrants resettled in Australia: Analysis of longitudinal data
Handiso, D. W., Paul, E., Boyle, J. A., Shawyer, F., Meadows, G. & Enticott, J. C., Oct 2024, In: International Journal of Mental Health Nursing. 33, 5, p. 1418-1434 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus)
Activities
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International Conference on Mindfulness 2020
Graham Meadows (Speaker)
25 Jun 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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International Federation of Psychiatric Epidemiology
Enticott, J. (Speaker), Mazza, D. (Speaker), Russell, G. (Speaker), Brophy, L. M. (Organiser), Shawyer, F. (Speaker), Wilson-Evered, E. (Speaker), Edan, V. (Speaker), Slade, M. (Organiser) & Meadows, G. (Speaker)
10 Apr 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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International Federation of Psychiatric Epidemiology
Meadows, G. (Speaker), Brophy , L. (Organiser), Shawyer, F. (Speaker), Enticott, J. (Speaker), Fossey, E. (Speaker), Thornton, C. (Speaker), Weller, P. (Speaker), Wilson-Evered, E. (Speaker), Edan, V. (Speaker) & Slade, M. (Speaker)
10 Apr 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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International Conference on Mindfulness (ICM)
Graham Meadows (Speaker)
9 Feb 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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International Federation of Psychiatric Epidemiology
Graham Meadows (Speaker)
10 Apr 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
Press/Media
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When it’s easier to get meds than therapy: how poverty makes it hard to escape mental illness
Graham Meadows, Anthony Cichello, Anton Isaacs & Frances Shawyer
3/07/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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An urgent need to grant inhuman rights, to what?
Graham Meadows & Fitzroy North
22/02/17
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other